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BODY METAPHOR IN ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN LINGUOCULTURES

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013
The article focuses on the identification of ethnocultural peculiarities of body metaphor functioning in differentstructure languages – English and Russian.
Yu. A. Bashkatova
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Improving Metaphor Literacy in Translator Training: A Case Study of a Specialised Metaphor Translation Workshop

open access: yestransLogos: Translation Studies Journal
With a focus on translator training, many strategies have been proposed for the effective translation of metaphors in practice, yet these strategies have predominantly drawn on descriptive analyses of translation products.
Sui He   +2 more
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Finding Metaphor in Discourse: Pragglejaz and Beyond

open access: yesCultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2014
This is a methodological paper which addresses three distinct ways in which metaphor can be found in discourse. The first approach concerns the Pragglejaz method for finding metaphorically used words, which involves the canonical case of metaphor ...
Gerard Steen
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Constructing conflict: a critical metaphor analysis of disagreement patterns in communication among older Chinese adults

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study examines how older Chinese adults in multigenerational households use metaphor to manage intergenerational conflict in disagreement episodes. The data include 12 publicly available televised family mediation cases from The Third Mediation Room
Heng Hu, Chen Cai
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(Becoming) Experts In Meaning Ambiguities

open access: yesHumana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2015
The discrepancy between the theoretical problems experts raise on polysemy, and the ease with which it is everyday understood by speakers, has been defined as the polysemy paradox.
Francesca Ervas
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La metáfora lunar: la imagen de la reina en la emblemática española

open access: yesMillars. Espai i Història, 2018
Among the many symbolic images of royalty, generated by emblems, hieroglyphics, poems and paintings during the baroque culture -the lion, the eagle, etc.-, that which reached a highest development, becoming the image par excellence of the King, was the ...
Víctor Mínguez
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The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Cro-atian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor ...
Mersina Mujagić, Sanja Berberović
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