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Lexico-phraseological nature of a military metaphor in modern press
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2012 The specificity of the modern language of mass media is a broad metaphorical use of the military lexicon. The article analyses the main features of the lexico-phraseological military metaphors in modern press, which appear in the lexico-semantic and ...
M R Zheltukhina, T D Magomadova
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SULLE FUNZIONI DELLA METAFORA NELL’ITALIANO ACCADEMICO: UN’ANALISI CORPUS-BASED
Italiano LinguaDueQuesto articolo analizza l’uso della metafora nel discorso accademico italiano attraverso un approccio basato sul corpus DIA (circa 950.000 parole). Lo studio dimostra che la metafora, sebbene altamente convenzionale, svolge un ruolo strutturale nel ...
Abdelmagid Sakr
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Lexical and Grammatical Metaphors in Newsweek
LINGUISTIK TERAPAN, 2014 This study investigates lexical and grammatical metaphors in Newsweek Weekly Magazines. The objectives of the study are to identify what lexical and grammatical metaphors used in Newsweek, to describe the way those metaphors are used, and to explain why the Newsweek use those lexical and grammatical metaphors.
Nasution, Sarah +2 more
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Performance Measurement Systems and Academic Managers’ Gaming Behavior
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how academic managers operating under managerialist control translate performance measurement systems (PMSs) into local gaming practices within business schools. These systems, implemented under neoliberal and managerialist reforms, shape institutional governance by prioritizing research outputs, student satisfaction, and ...
Shahenda Shehata, Lee D. Parker
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Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Strategic word mimicry during negotiations facilitates better outcomes. We explore mimicry of specific word categories and perceptions of rapport, trust, and liking as underlying mechanisms. Dyads took part in an online negotiation exercise in which word mimicry was manipulated: Participants were instructed to mimic each other’s words (both ...
Kate Muir +4 more
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Local Search and the Evolution of World Models
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract An open question regarding how people develop their models of the world is how new candidates are generated for consideration out of infinitely many possibilities. We discuss the role that evolutionary mechanisms play in this process. Specifically, we argue that when it comes to developing a global world model, innovation is necessarily ...
Neil R. Bramley +3 more
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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio +3 more
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A Comparative Study of Nominalization in an English Applied Linguistics Textbook and its Persian Translation [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2014 Among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language.
Alireza Jalilifar, Fereshteh Shirali
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Constructing the “Career Woman” in British Newspapers: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how the term “career woman” organized newspaper accounts of women’s work in Britain between 1985 and 2020. It draws on 283 articles from The Guardian, The Times, and the Daily Mail, using corpus‐informed sampling and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis.
Ghazal Vahidi +2 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines multilingual practices in research interviews, focusing on English lexical insertions in Chinese‐language research interviews with teachers of Chinese in Australian secondary schools, and treating these code‐switches as analytically meaningful rather than incidental.
Chengwen Yuan, Tianwei Zhang, Gary Bonar
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