Metaphor analysis meets lexical strings: finetuning the metaphor identification procedure for quantitative semantic analyses [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Recent years have witnessed the development of the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP/VU), a step-by-step protocol designed to identify metaphorically-used words in discourse.
Laurence De Backer +2 more
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Identifying Metaphors in TV Commercials with FILMIP: The Filmic Metaphor Identification Procedure
Journal of English Studies, 2021 The analysis and identification of figurative language is one of the largest research areas in cognitive linguistics, and metaphor is one of these tropes.
Lorena Bort-Mir
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Metaphor identification procedure MIPVU: an attempt to apply it to Lithuanian
Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2015 The aim of this article is to present some insights and reflections as a result of the application of the MIPVU procedure for metaphor identification in Lithuanian and discuss several methodological issues.
Justina Urbonaitė
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Metaphor Annotation Criteria: A Step towards Building a Metaphor Corpus [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2023 Due to the development of smart devices, the ability of computers to understand human language has become a key issue in technology. By learning and analyzing machine-readable, annotated linguistic data, computers are able to comprehend human language ...
Mohammad Saeid Miri
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The application of MIPVU procedure for identifying metaphors in Persian: teacher-student discourse in 1st and 2nd grade of primary schools [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2023 INTRODUCTIONThis article is an attempt to apply MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) for identifying and extracting metaphors used in the educational discourse of teaching the Persian language to first and second grades of elementary schools in Naghedeh.
Seyed Mostafa Assi +3 more
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The effect of gender and language proficiency on the metaphor use in the writing of TEFL students
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021 The ubiquitous nature of metaphor in everyday life and its significance in second language learning has triggered plethoric research on the relationship between metaphor and language learning.
Nazila Fattahi, Musa Nushi
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2022 European languages represent 3% of the world 7,000+ languages, and yet, a recent survey shows that they amount for 84% of the studies in metaphor publications.
Simon Devylder
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Difficulties in Identifying and Translating Linguistic Metaphors: A Survey and Experiment among Translation Students [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2019 A survey of twelve translation students in 2017 revealed that they tend to find translating figurative and metaphorical language difficult. In addition, an experiment also conducted in 2017 showed similar results.
Charlène Meyers
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A corpus-assisted cognitive analysis of metaphors in the Arabic subtitling of English TV series
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 This paper reports on the findings of a study that aimed at investigating the conceptual metaphors used in the Arabic subtitling of 150 English TV series (1982–2017), adopting Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) for ...
Ronza Abu Rumman +3 more
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An account of inter-lexical polysemy in Italian prepositions: The case of per, tra, attraverso
Moderna Språk, 2023 The goal of this paper is to offer an account of an inter-lexical polysemy pattern connecting the three Italian prepositions per, tra and attraverso. It is shown via a corpus study that these prepositions can cover several related senses (i.e.
Francesco-Alessio Ursini +1 more
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