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Unraveling the force dynamics in conceptual metaphors of COVID-19: a multilevel analysis

Language and Cognition, 2022
So far, cognitive linguistics studies on COVID-19 have focused mainly on conceptual metaphors, paying scant attention to other construal operations such as force dynamics (FD).
R. Kazemian, H. Rezaei, Somayeh Hatamzadeh   +2 more
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Quasi-Metaphoricity and the Turning Force of Alterity

2022
Abstract This chapter explores the implications of Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive understanding of the process of metaphorization for the critique of the metaphysical humanism of the proper in political thought. In his early writings, Derrida suggests that the metaphorical process is rooted in and points to a radical force that ...
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“I am a Force” – An Attempt of Ontological Interpretation of Ingarden’s Metaphor

2014
Marek Piwowarczyk
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Getting in a Spin over the Therapeutic Process: QBism and a Gyroscopic Model of the Vital Force

Complementary Medicine Research, 2022
Background: In the previous paper, a relatively new interpretation of quantum theory called quantum Bayesianism or QBism was introduced as an alternative quantum metaphor for the therapeutic process (TP).
L. Milgrom
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Medicine is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture by Lorenzo Servitje (review)

Studies in the Novel, 2021
Drawing on the familiar ideas of Michel Foucault, he argues that war imagery “worked as a tool of biopolitical governance: a mechanism to regulate populations and foster the self-fashioning of individuals, which together mitigated the biological ...
Andrew N. Mangham
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The Force Metaphor in Jefferson Davis’ War Rhetoric

1987
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Metaphors of the Pandemic: Fire and Force of Nature

2021
Chapter 3 investigates the ‘fire’ frame—‘sparks’, ‘flare up’ etc. and the ‘force of nature’ frame -‘surge testing’, ‘overwhelm’ and ‘waves’ of pandemic. Fire metaphors were effective in explaining the rapidity with which the virus spread and how it could be stopped.
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Philosophy and the Force of Metaphor

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The Natural Forces of Metaphor

Science, 2004
Conserving Words How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement. by Daniel J. Philippon. University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2004. 391 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8203-2576-7. Philippon explores the influence of five writers whose work helped shape important conservation organizations: Teddy ...
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Metaphorical Idioms in Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Yearbook of Phraseology
In Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Kövecses, 2020), I offered a comprehensive overhaul of “standard” conceptual metaphor theory. The present paper attempts to demonstrate how the new view of CMT can handle metaphorical idioms. To this end, I analyze
Z. Kövecses
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