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The dispensability of metaphor [PDF]

, 2010
Many philosophers claim that metaphor is indispensable for various purposes. What I shall call the ‘Indispensability Thesis’ is the view that we use at least some metaphors to think, to express, to communicate, or to discover what cannot be thought ...
Grant, James
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Information and Experience in Metaphor: A Perspective From Computer Analysis [PDF]

, 1986
Novel linguistic metaphor can be seen as the assignment of attributes to a topic through a vehicle belonging to another domain. The experience evoked by the vehicle is a significant aspect of the meaning of the metaphor, especially for abstract metaphor,
Russell, Sylvia Weber
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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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Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: a new resource for investigating metaphor in names [PDF]

, 2016
The AHRC-funded ‘Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus’ project has traced the development of metaphor in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day using the unique evidence base of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English ...
Bramwell, Ellen, Hamilton, Rachael, Hough, Carole   +2 more
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What Is Said by Metaphor [PDF]

, 2014
‘What is said’ by an utterance, from a traditional truth-conditional view of language, is the uttered sentence’s conventionally encoded semantic meaning, and is distinguished from ‘what is implicated’, such as metaphor, which is understood as a type of ...
Ku, Hsiu-lin
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Improving Students’ Metaphor Interpretation: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach to Interpret Metaphors in the Song Titanium (2011)

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2017
This research is conducted to measure how participants’ understanding to a source domain of metaphor will help them to better interpret metaphor in “Titanium” song by using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT).
Muhammad Adam
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The Neural Basis of Metaphor Comprehension: Evidence from Left Hemisphere Degeneration

Neurobiology of Language, 2020
Despite the ubiquity of metaphor in cognition and communication, it is absent from standard clinical assessments of language, and the neural systems that support metaphor processing are debated.
Nathaniel Klooster, Marguerite McQuire, Murray Grossman, Corey McMillan, Anjan Chatterjee, Eileen Cardillo   +5 more
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Re-theorising the core: a ‘globalized’ business elite in Santiago, Chile [PDF]

, 1998
World systems theory continues to be a widely adopted approach in theorisations of the contemporary world economy. An important epistemological component to world systems theory is the metaphor of core-periphery.
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Metaphor, skepticism, understanding Metaphor, skepticism, understanding

Ilha do Desterro, 2010
<p align="left">This paper examines the idea that metaphor is a basic cognitive tool from a Wittgensteinian point of view. One specific aspect of Wittgenstein&rsquo;s legacy is explored, namely his account of verbal understanding.
Helena Martins
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Research Front and Future Prospect: A Bibliometric Study of Metaphor Comprehension

SAGE Open
Metaphor comprehension is an important component in the process of constructing metaphorical thinking. Therefore, the topic of “metaphor comprehension” should be a crucial part of metaphor studies.
Xunian Wang, Yi Sun
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