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AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE USED ON INSTAGRAM ONLINE SHOPPING [PDF]
Figurative language is a communication style contrary to words' literal or accurate meaning. Figurative language is frequently employed in hyperbole and comparisons, adding artistic flair to written or spoken words or clarifying complex concepts. This
Arifah, Firdatul
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Reading The Road with Paul Ricoeur and Julia Kristeva: The Human Body as a Sacred Connection [PDF]
, 2014 Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road confronts readers with a question: what is there to live towards after apocalypse? McCarthy locates his protagonists in the aftermath of the world’s fiery destruction, dramatizing a relationship between a father and a son,
Arel, Stephanie
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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
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Altralang JournalThis study explores how proficient Arabic learners, whose first language is English or French, understand idiomatic verbal expressions by moving beyond traditional grammatical rules.
Djemai Mahmoud Boulaares
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Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction [PDF]
, 2018 John Sanders’ Theology in the Flesh, the first comprehensive overview of the toolkit that contemporary cognitive linguistics offers for theological appropriation, despite its remarkable success, gives rather minimal attention to blending theory, one of ...
Masson, Robert
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RAGLRO: Retrieval‐Augmented Generation With Large Language Models for Robotic Operations
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To enable autonomous operations in complex industrial environments, this paper proposes retrieval‐augmented generation with large language models for robotic operations (RAGLRO), a robotic framework specifically designed for power switchgear operation tasks.
Wenrui Wang +6 more
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Context and the development of metaphor comprehension [PDF]
, 1988 Running title: Metaphoric understandingIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 9-10)Supported in part by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement under cooperative agreement no.
Vosniadou, Stella
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British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.Abstract Recent studies have highlighted that distinctive sensory processing may be central in explaining the communication and social interaction differences characteristic of autism. As a result, a shift in teaching approaches has been suggested, focusing on addressing sensory differences by carefully controlling perceptual stimuli (no more than two ...
Stefano Scippo
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For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado +2 more
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An Analysis of Figurative Language in Sabrina Carpenter’s Song Album “Short N’ Sweet”
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy)The study is very important because when listening to songs, most people only focus on the music rather than the lyrics without knowing the meaning of the song. This study aims to find out the types of figurative language in “Short n Sweet” song album by
Mira Kristiyanti Gea +2 more
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