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Aspects of the problems of translating metaphor, with special reference to modern Arabic poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This thesis examines a crucial area in the translation of poetic discourse, the translatability of modern Arabic metaphor into English. Two main questions are addressed. Firstly, what makes a particular metaphor easy to translate? Secondly, what makes
Obeidat, Hisham T. B.
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Migration in the Media - Metaphors in Swedish and German News Coverage

open access: yesNORDEUROPAforum - Zeitschrift für Kulturstudien, 2017
Migration-related events have received overwhelming attention in mainstream media coverage within Europe in recent years. This study investigates the metaphorical framing of migration issues by comparing dominant discursive patterns from two national and
Bo Petersson, Lena Kainz
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“It should not have happened”: metaphorical expressions, idioms, and narrative descriptions related to trauma in an indigenous community in India

open access: yesInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2019
Purpose: Psychological trauma can be viewed as a metaphor which originates from somatic medicine and comes from the Greek word “wound”. To gain a better understanding of trauma in a culturally sensitive way, the present project aimed to explore ...
Karin Rechsteiner   +2 more
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Using drawing as a research tool in metaphor-led discourse analysis

open access: yes, 2023
This talk reports on an experiment in which six Westminster MA translation students were asked to draw pictures to represent the orientational metaphoric elements of a written text.
Denroche, C.
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Psychosemantic Analysis of Metaphors in Psychological Counseling [PDF]

open access: yesCounseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2021
The paper describes the results of a psychosemantic study of metaphors in psychological counseling for adults. The research material consisted of metaphors from the records of 25 open individual psychological consultations. The chosen metaphors were evaluated by 80 respondents (50 women and 30 men) aged 25—54 (Mage=33.08, SD=9.25).
S.V. Krainyukov, Y.V. Goryunova
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A metaphor analysis of EFL graduate students’ beliefs about an EAP textbook

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2022
This study aimed to evaluate an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) textbook by examining English as a Foreign Language (EFL) graduate students’ beliefs about the textbook through metaphor analysis in a Chinese University setting.
Hong Shi
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The Hermeneutic Challenge in Quantum Physics Why interpretation matters as much as calculation [PDF]

open access: yesФилософия и космология
This article examines quantum physics’ interpretive challenges through philosophical hermeneutics, arguing that the persistent confusion in understanding quantum phenomena stems not only from theoretical complexity, but from a hermeneutic deficit – a gap
Heitor Matallo Jr
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Analysis of Metaphor and Comparison in "Metaphor-structure "Sentences [PDF]

open access: yesAdvances in Intelligent Systems Research, 2015
Like" and "as if" are two words that are frequently used. In order to make it convenient, this paper will use "metaphor-structure sentence" to refer to sentences with "like" or "as if" and represents them with "A is like B". In "metaphor-structure" sentences, the meanings of "like" and "as if" are very flexible because these two words can refer to ...
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Enhancing transparency in source domain disambiguation for metaphor analysis: a cross-lingual approach integrating lexical resources, word embeddings, and human annotation

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
Contemporary cognitive-linguistic research often seeks to consolidate metaphorical expressions into systematic mappings between source and target domains.
Mojca Brglez   +3 more
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Nine issues in metaphor theory and analysis

open access: yes, 2010
Starting as a review article discussing an important book on Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics, this article goes on to explore the distinctions between a) literal meaning and metaphor; b) conceptual metaphor and linguistic metaphor; c) creativity and ...
Hanks, Patrick, Patrick Hanks
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