No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by
This essay discusses metaphor as a cognitive paradox. It is divided into two parts. The first part outlines a schema explaining the paradox that the authors call ‘prodigal-within-prodigy’ in terms of how metaphor conception creates a contextual ...
Muhammad Tanweer, Khadija Nowaira Abdullah
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The effect of gender and language proficiency on the metaphor use in the writing of TEFL students
The ubiquitous nature of metaphor in everyday life and its significance in second language learning has triggered plethoric research on the relationship between metaphor and language learning.
Nazila Fattahi, Musa Nushi
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Metaphoric coherence: Distinguishing verbal metaphor from `anomaly\u27 [PDF]
Theories and computational models of metaphor comprehension generally circumvent the question of metaphor versus “anomaly” in favor of a treatment of metaphor versus literal language.
Aarts J. +31 more
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Metaphernrealisierung in jordanischen arabischen Sprichwörtern: Eine explorative Studie / Metaphor Realization in Jordanian Arabic Proverbs: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
This paper aims at identifying the most common constructions that realise metaphor in a group of commonly used Jordanian Arabic proverbs. The metaphorical instances in the data were identified using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (cf.
Hani Abumathkour
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Novel metaphors comprehension in a child with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders. A study on assessment and treatment [PDF]
Until the first decade of the current millennium, the literature on metaphor comprehension highlighted typical difficulties in children with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
MELOGNO, Sergio +2 more
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A Systematic Review on Extended Reality-Mediated Multi-User Social Engagement
The metaverse represents a post-reality universe that seamlessly merges physical reality with digital virtuality. It provides a continuous and immersive social networking environment, enabling multi-user engagement and interaction through Extended ...
Yimin Wang +4 more
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From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection [PDF]
Natural selection is one of the most famous metaphors in the history of science. Charles Darwin used the metaphor and the underlying analogy to frame his ideas about evolution and its main driving mechanism into a full-fledged theory.
Blancke, Stefaan +4 more
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Pictorial (multimodal) metaphor in printed advertising
The theoretical basis of the article is the methodology of pictorial/visual metaphor research presented in Charles Forceville's work Pictorial Metaphor in Advertising (2006) and multimodal metaphor research proposed in his book Multimodal Metaphor (2009).
Saulė Juzelėnienė +1 more
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Since the cognitive turn in metaphor studies in the late 1970s, metaphor has been seen as a cognitive phenomenon reflecting how we think, alongside its classic role as a powerful literary device.
Sui HE, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH, Caiwen WANG
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