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Metaphors and the Invention of Writing. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Abstract The foundation of ancient, invented writing systems lies in the predominant iconicity of their sign shapes. However, these shapes are often used not for their referential meaning but in a metaphorical way, whereby one entity stands for another.
Ottaviano L, Kelley K, Cartolano M, Ferrara S.   +3 more
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Articulating Grief: Arts-Based Therapy as a Pathway to Resilience in Nursing Practice. [PDF]

Int J Ment Health Nurs
ABSTRACT Grief and bereavement are profound yet underexplored aspects of nursing practice within residential aged care facilities. Registered nurses who work in these settings often form close emotional bonds with residents, making repeated exposure to death deeply impactful.
Stubbs M, Gaviola M, Sunner C, Reis J.
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Linguistic features of the semantic translation of the Holy Quran from Arabic into Russian

مجلة الآداب, 2022
This article discusses some linguistic problems that arise when translating the Holy Quran from Arabic to Russian. We analyze lexical, syntactic and semantic problems and support them with Examples of verses from the Qur'an, since the Qur'an is the word
Azzam Ahmed AL Mogami
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Metonymy and metaphor [PDF]

Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics -, 1988
A computational approach to metonymy and metaphor is proposed that distinguishes between them, literalness, and anomaly. The approach supports Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) views that metonymy and metaphor are quite different phenomena, that in metonymy an entity stands for another, whereas in metaphor an entity is viewed as another.
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Metaphor and metonymy in euphemisms in Queen Elizabeth II's official statements [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Though well recognised as devices used in the formation of euphemisms, metaphor and metonymy as such remain under-researched in current literature. Our study examines the use of euphemistic language in the official speeches and statements of the former ...
Janićijević Marko M., Gorčević Admir R.   +1 more
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Metonymy and Metaphor as Verbal Postulation: The Epistemic Status of Non-Literal Speech in Indian Philosophy

Journal of World Philosophies, 2017
In this paper, I examine Kumārila Bhaṭṭa's account of figurative language in Tantravārttika 1.4.11-17, arguing that, for him, both metonymy (lakṣaṇā) and metaphor (gauṇa-vṛtti) crucially involve verbal postulation (śrutârthāpatti), a knowledge-conducive ...
Malcolm Keating
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Metaphor and Metonymy

Metaphor and Metonymy
Each language has its origin, history,and uniqueness. Every language has special words that can make the words you want to say emotional, artistic, exaggeratedand emphasize. We call such words metaphor and metonymy. These phrases are familiar to us since school days. It also has its forms and order of occurrence in the structure of the sentence. That's
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IMPLICIT REGISTER MARKING IN GERMAN VIA METAPHOR AND METONYMY

Italiano LinguaDue, 2023
In this article, we examined implicit register marking through metaphor and metonymy. Specifically, we intended to analyse the ways in which metaphor and metonymy are used to mark register properties in selected text types.
Markus Egg
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Metaphor and Metonymy in Ancient Dream Interpretation: The Case of Islamic-Iranian Culture

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2017
This paper aims to investigate the relevance of metaphor and metonymy to ancient dream interpretation in Islamic-Iranian culture. To this end, a most-referenced book of dream interpretation is analysed according to the conceptual metaphor theory.
Rahman Veisi Hasar
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A Survey on One of the Alienation ways to Indian Style: A Case Study of Sa’eb’s Ghazals [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2018
By studying books and articles in this field, one can see the upward trend in the trend from content to psychological research to explain the meaning of alien meaning.
Siyavash Haqjoo, Mostafa Mirdar Rezaii
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