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Metaphors across languages, cultures and discourses: A research agenda
Russian Journal of LinguisticsThis special issue explores metaphor across languages, cultures, and discourses, bringing together papers that reflect the diversity and scope of this research area.
Aseel Zibin, Olga A. Solopova
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PEIRCEAN METAPHOR REEXAMINED: CREATION, FUNCTION AND INTERPRETATION [PDF]
Filozofia i Nauka, 2019 The Peircean iconic metaphor takes the concept of metaphor beyond linguistic and literary metaphors and does not even limit it to the “conventional metaphor” of Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive theory. Given Peirce’s short and somewhat ambiguous definition
Shekoufeh Mohammadi Shirmahaleh
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Data, problems, heuristics and results in cognitive metaphor research
, 2012 Cognitive metaphor research is characterised by the diversity of rival theories. Starting from this observation, the paper focuses on the problem of how the unity and diversity of cognitive theories of metaphor can be accounted for. The first part of the
Kertész, András +2 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation
, 2001 A key issue for models of metaphor comprehension is to explain how in some metaphorical comparison , only some features of B are transferred to A. The features of B that are transferred to A depend both on A and on B.
Thomas, Michael S.C., Mareschal, Denis
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Ecclesial metaphor in the epistle to the Ephesians from the perspective of a modern theory of metaphor [PDF]
, 1995 This thesis approaches ecclesial metaphor in Ephesians from the vantage point of modern theories of metaphor from which concepts are borrowed and shaped into methods for evaluating ancient metaphor.
McVay, John Kenneth
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"So let's talk. Let's chat. Let's start a dialogue" : an analysis of the conversation metaphor employed in Clinton's and Obama's YouTube campaign clips [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines how two American presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, make use of a video exchange is conversation metaphor on YouTube, a chann^el of communication that allows the exchange of video clips on the Internet.
Duman, Steve, Locher, Miriam A.
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The mental health and wellbeing of young people has received increasing attention in both research and the wider public discourse. There has been a marked rise in mental health conditions in young people, and the burden of care is increasingly transferred onto schools and teachers.
Thomas Godfrey‐Faussett +6 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
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, 2011 A mini-lecture that will introduce you to the concept of metaphor and some key terms. It will then examine the importance of metaphor in our personal lives and in organizational life, providing you with some examples.
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