WAR as slogan, HAT as strategy: metaphorical construction of poverty alleviation in Chinese political discourse [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPolitical metaphors play a crucial role in shaping public perception and legitimizing policy, yet their use in China’s poverty alleviation discourse remains underexplored.
Feifei Fu, Long Dai
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ContrastWSD: Enhancing Metaphor Detection with Word Sense Disambiguation Following the Metaphor Identification Procedure [PDF]
Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation ConferenceThis paper presents ContrastWSD, a RoBERTa-based metaphor detection model that integrates the Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP) and Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) to extract and contrast the contextual meaning with the basic meaning of a word to determine whether it is used metaphorically in a sentence.
Mohamad Elzohbi, Richard Zhao
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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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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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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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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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Metaphor analysis in vocational counselling: moving from intuitive to reliable metaphor identification [PDF]
, 2020 In this article we introduce a metaphor identification method that can be readily applied to vocational psychology research and practice, and contextualised to explore the phenomenon of career at a deeper level of experience. We demonstrate a practically-
Creed, A +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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