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Slovak students’ comprehension of English figurative idioms containing body parts

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2015
Figurative idioms constitute a large proportion of multi-word expressions in everyday language. Contrary to the traditional view of idioms as non-compositional units, numerous studies in cognitive linguistics show that most idioms are not arbitrary but ...
Ciprianová Elena, Vrábelová Marta
doaj   +1 more source

One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
wiley   +1 more source

The Hour that Never Comes and the Time that Remains

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay proposes a symbolic and clinical investigation of psychic temporality through two archetypal experiences of time: the hour that never comes and the time that remains. Drawing on analytical psychology, trauma theory and aesthetic philosophy, text explores how certain forms of suffering resist chronological resolution and persist as ...
Daniel Françoli Yago
wiley   +1 more source

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land‐use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, understand and manage ecosystems in the Anthropocene.
Matthew R. Kerr   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grammatical metaphors in English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article focuses on the concept of 'grammatical metaphor' as it has been introduced in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. It first explains 'metaphor' in general, as it is traditionally known.
Taverniers, Miriam
core   +1 more source

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Tropic Architecture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Mannerist architects in the Cinquecento created what can be called “tropic architecture.” They set out to break the rules of classical architecture, but the rule-breaking was done systematically, by applying rhetorical tropes, or figures of speech, to ...
Hendrix, John S
core   +1 more source

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Semantic Analysis on English Idi Semantic Analysis on English Idiomatic Expressions in Bilal’s Film

open access: yesTarling
Recent research confirmed that idioms were one of the most complex aspects of learning English because their meanings were influenced by cultural differences, context, and limitations in the target language.
Syifa Maulia al Khairani   +2 more
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