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Metaphor Aptness And Conventionality: A Processing Fluency Account [PDF]
, 2011 Conventionality and aptness are two dimensions of metaphorical sentences thought to play an important role in determining how quick and easy it is to process a metaphor.
Durgin, Frank H. +1 more
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Філологічні студіїAmong the myriad tools of linguistic expression, metaphor stands out as a potent means of enriching language and influencing audiences. This paper explores metaphor as a pragmatic tool for stylistic enhancement, drawing insights from cognitive theory and
Svitlana Radetska, Oksana Milova
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Exploring Metaphorical Senses and Word Representations for Identifying Metonyms [PDF]
, 2015 A metonym is a word with a figurative meaning, similar to a metaphor. Because metonyms are closely related to metaphors, we apply features that are used successfully for metaphor recognition to the task of detecting metonyms. On the ACL SemEval 2007 Task
Gelernter, Judith, Zhang, Wei
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Reading Metaphor of God in the Qur’an (al-Nūr [24]: 36) from Paul Ricoeur’s Theory of Metaphor
Ulumuna, 2017 This paper aims to demonstrate how the adoption of the theory of metaphor by Ricoeur to the “Light Verse” in the Quran. One of the most famous verse in the Quran is “the Light verse.” Beside the metaphor of light, the verse includes the metaphors of “the
Nur Ahmad
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This experimental study explored the use of the implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP) for understanding the vertical spatial metaphor of power.
Bao Hong, Lu Zhang, Hongri Sun
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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Metaphoric Emotions: Emotional Metaphors
, 2019 (VLID ...
Grossen, Bonnie R., Norrick, Neal R.
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Language Metaphor and Metaphorical Thinking
, 2021 The article is devoted to the problem of linguistic metaphor, but the focus of the research is a) the connection of metaphor with metaphorical thinking and with the type of artistic speech, b) the metaphorizer (metaphor auxiliary subject) as one of the obligatory elements of its two-component structure and its axiological potential, c) the ...
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