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Thinking by metaphor, fast and slow: Deliberate Metaphor Theory offers a new model for metaphor and its comprehension

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
The immense increase in metaphor theory and research over the past decades is posing a threat of fragmentation to the field, which has been responded to by calls for new and more encompassing approaches to virtually all aspects metaphorical. This article
Gerard J. Steen
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The relevance of metaphor in argumentation. Uniting pragma-dialectics and deliberate metaphor theory

Journal of Pragmatics, 2020
Abstract Argumentative discussions can contain various types of metaphor, but these do not all fulfil the same function in discourse: while some seem to express part of the argumentation, others seem to be irrelevant. So far, argumentation research has not explained when metaphors should be considered relevant for argumentation.
Lotte Van Poppel
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Von der Conceptual Metaphor Theory zur Deliberate Metaphor Theory

Initium, 2022
Der vorliegende Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über zwei Metapherntheorien, die für die linguistische Metaphernanalyse als wichtige Beschreibungsrahmen gelten. Zunächst wird der einflussreiche Ansatz von Lakoff und Johnson (1980), die Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) mit ihren wichtigsten Grundannahmen dargestellt.
Elisabeth Putterer
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The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2019
Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor within ...
Mujagić Mersina, Berberović Sanja
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The Death Taboo: Euphemism and Metaphor in Epitaphs from the English Cemetery of Malaga, Spain

Languages, 2023
In spite of the fact that taboos change over time, death is still a delicate and sensitive subject in today’s Western societies. Our unwillingness to talk openly about death and dying makes people resort to euphemism as a safe way to talk about human ...
Eliecer Crespo-Fernández
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DMIP: A Method for Identifying Potentially Deliberate Metaphor in Language Use

Corpus Pragmatics, 2017
This paper introduces the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (DMIP), a method for the systematic and reliable identification of potentially deliberate metaphor in language use.
Christian Burgers, W Gudrun Reijnierse, Tina Krennmayr   +2 more
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The role of co-text in the analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor

Figurative Thought and Language, 2020
Taking Deliberate Metaphor Theory (Steen, 2015) as a starting point, this chapter investigates the way in which co-text influences the identification and analysis of potentially deliberate metaphor in discourse.
Christian Burgers, W Gudrun Reijnierse, Tina Krennmayr   +2 more
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“No man is an island”: How Chinese netizens use deliberate metaphors to provide “depression sufferers” with social support

Digital Health
Objective Online social support provides a way to positively influence depression sufferers. In the present study, we aim to analyze how social support in Chinese online depression communities is communicated through the lens of deliberate metaphor ...
Youping Jing, Guiying Jiang
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Figurative Conceptualizations of Nations, Countries, and Institutions in Newspaper Articles on Migration

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2023
The paper discusses figurative conceptualizations of nations, countries, and institutions as either a container, a person, a sinking ship, a fabric, or hell in media discourse on the European migrant crisis.
Mersina Mujagić
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Deliberate Metaphor Affords Conscious Metaphorical Cognition

Cognitive Semiotics, 2009
G. Steen
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