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Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine [PDF]
Medical Humanities, 2015 Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind?
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No Warfare: Let us render unto metaphor’s paradox we live by
NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2019 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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Metaphernrealisierung in jordanischen arabischen Sprichwörtern: Eine explorative Studie / Metaphor Realization in Jordanian Arabic Proverbs: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławThis 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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A Systematic Review on Extended Reality-Mediated Multi-User Social Engagement
SystemsThe 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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Ontological Metaphor in Adele’s Selected Song Lyrics
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature, 2017 This article discusses the ontological metaphor found in Adele’s songs. It aims to determine the types of ontological metaphor and their meanings. Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphor is used in analyzing the data.
Bindra Gisca Maya
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The effect of gender and language proficiency on the metaphor use in the writing of TEFL students
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021 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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Metaphor or not Metaphor: Is that the question?
Respectus Philologicus, 2020 This review concerns the volume Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages. MIPVU around the world, edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2019.
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Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama
International Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2010 We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor.
Li Zhang, John Barnden
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Pictorial (multimodal) metaphor in printed advertising
Lietuvių Kalba, 2011 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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Metaphor in the West and Iran: A Comparative Perspective [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīIn this article, the ideas of some prominent Iranian and Western scholars about metaphor are analyzed comparatively. In addition to “the introduction”, the article includes two main parts: in “Metaphor in the West”, the ideas of some well-known figures ...
Reza Amini
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