A note on pragmatically and stylistically conditioned semantic changes : the case study of "Newsweek" Polska [PDF]
, 2007 Kleparski, Grzegorz A. +1 more
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Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' ---> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' ---> [UNDERGO] in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Buba, Malami, Jaggar, Philip J.
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Verb patterning and acculturation in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 54-75, March 2026.Abstract Speech communities have the tendency to develop habits as to which words tend to co‐occur, in the form of coinages and collocational patterns, thus constituting an aspect conducive to the subtle emergence of language variation. As these co‐occurrence tendencies become lexicalised and confined to specific, rigid word combinations, new ...
Mary Ifeoluwa Abidoye, Hans‐Georg Wolf
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Metaphorical framing of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan: A corpus driven critical analysis of war metaphors in news media. [PDF]
PLoS OneRana A, Ayoub T, Ghilzai SA, Shehzad W.
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Metaphorical Collocations from a Specialised Text-Typological Perspective
The chapter outlines the methodology and preliminary results of a pilot study designed to provide a structural and functional account of conceptual metaphors and their significance for the description and classification of specialised text types.
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Lexical Complexity: Metaphors and Collocations in Native, Non-Native and Bilingual Speech
, 2015 This paper reports on a study of metaphorical speech produced by forty native, non-native and bilingual students from University Paris-Diderot expressing themselves in English and in French. A corpus of spontaneous reactions to works of art was collected within the framework of Emphiline, an interdisciplinary project exploring the expression of ...
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 163-181, March 2026.Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
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Environmental sustainability in the online media discourses of Saudi Arabia: A corpus-based study of keyness, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Almaghlouth S.
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Conceptualizing Circular Ecosystems: An Analysis of 45 Definitions
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 2368-2394, February 2026.ABSTRACT The circular ecosystem concept is gaining prominence among academics and practitioners. However, critics claim the concept is used and understood differently by different actors. While conceptual plurality offers possibilities for broad interpretations and engagement, it can undermine the relevance of the concept as an analytical lens due to ...
Martin Geissdoerfer +2 more
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