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Understanding in Seeing : a discourse perspective on image metaphor
Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013 The present paper focuses on the type of metaphor known as image metaphor as it is used by architects to describe and evaluate built space in building reviews.
María del Rosario Caballero Rodríguez
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Supporting Pathways into College and Careers: The Case of Adult Education ESL in Community Colleges
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Research has increasingly focused on the importance of college preparation and career and technical education (CTE) for multilingual learners (MLs), many of them classified as “English Learners,” in K‐12 schools. Less attention, however, has been paid to the collegiate and professional aspirations of another significant population of MLs in ...
Kylie A. Kenner +2 more
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Structural Realization and Functionality of Grammatical Metaphor in Nollywood Films
University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and LiteratureMetaphor is a semantic shift in language use, either in form or function. A metaphorical expression has various realisations through its interpretation. Grammatical metaphor is a concept in Halliday’s systemic functional theory (SFT).
Eniayo Sobola +1 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the experiences of an undergraduate multilingual international student in becoming a science writer at a large public university. Taking the lenses of identity and investment, language socialization and multiliteracies, we address the question: How does a college‐aged multilingual science student navigate disciplinary ...
Hongye Zeng, Laura Mahalingappa
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
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Language change in scientific discourse [PDF]
JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 2004 Halliday has demonstrated that changes in discourse function covary with changes in the grammatical resources a language makes available to construe discourse.
Randaccio Monica
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2016 SYNAMET - A Microcorpus of Synesthetic Metaphors. Preliminary Premises of the Description of Metaphor in Discourse This article describes the preliminary premises of metaphor annotation in SYNAMET - the developing microcorpus of synesthetic metaphors ...
Magdalena Anna Zawisławska
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Grammatical metaphor in Chinese
Functions of Language, 2011 This article investigates Grammatical Metaphor (GM) in Chinese by analyzing the use of GM instances in a data set formed by 37 extracts from scientific textbooks. The article first develops a framework for the identification and categorization of GM in Chinese. It then explores the distribution of GM categories and GM syndromes.
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“Migratory Bird” Local Managers: English Proficiency, Social Identification, and Early Turnover
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local managers with high proficiency in English are valuable resources for foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, as they help mitigate language barriers between expatriate and local managers. However, such linguistically competent local managers often leave foreign subsidiaries within the first few years of employment.
Naoki Ando +2 more
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Linguistic Complexity Analysis: A Case Study of Commonly-Used Textbooks in Vietnam
SAGE Open, 2018 Adopting systemic functional linguistics (hereafter SFL) as the main theoretical framework, this study as part of a larger research project, aimed to examine how the language of textbooks deployed in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in the ...
Vinh To
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