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“Truth is like a vast tree”: Metaphor use in Gandhi’s autobiographical narration. [PDF]
, 2017 This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Metaphor and the Social World. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/msw.7.1.07nea.
Neary, Clara, Clara Neary
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Energy Landscapes in Chemical Reactions and Transport
ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.Kinetics/dynamics of chemical reactivity and transport of chemical species in a solid are both determined by the energy landscape in which they take place. Discussing common grounds but also distinct differences may help in advancing the understanding in both fields.
Karl‐Michael Weitzel
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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A Framework for Impression Management in Extra‐Financial Reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how organisations employ impression management tactics in extra‐financial reporting, particularly in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As stakeholder scrutiny and regulatory expectations intensify, organisations increasingly shape non‐financial disclosures to influence perceptions of ...
Laura Ribeiro +3 more
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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Metaphor in Herodotus' Histories [PDF]
, 2019 This dissertation examines metaphors in Herodotus’ Histories. It focuses on the different ways in which metaphors function within the Histories and argues that Herodotus uses metaphors to structure his work, to characterize his protagonists, to give ...
van den Eersten, A.
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While REDD+ prioritizes carbon sequestration, its narrow focus often overlooks forest‐health linkages critical to community well‐being. This paper examines the holistic model of Health in Harmony (HIH) and Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), which integrates forest conservation with healthcare through radical listening—a decolonial community engagement
Angie Hsu +3 more
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The MIGRATION AS AN INVASION and THE COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE Metaphors in media discourse
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains of INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. The conceptual metaphors MI-GRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably relat ...
Mersina Mujagić
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The international conservation and natural resources communities have increasingly embraced the principle of community participation. This rhetoric around participation has gained power and influence in setting countries' agendas for natural resources governance, largely without a sound understanding of public opinion on the issues.
Rachel S. Friedman +3 more
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