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The translatability of metaphor in LSP: application of a decision-making model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life.
Fuertes Olivera, Pedro Antonio   +1 more
core   +7 more sources

A General Framework for Detecting Metaphorical Collocations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This paper aims at identifying a specific set of collocations known under the term metaphorical collocations. In this type of collocations, a semantic shift has taken place in one of the components. Since the appropriate gold standard needs to be compiled prior to any serious endeavour to extract metaphorical collocations automatically, this paper ...
Brkić Bakarić, Marija   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Understanding and evaluation: A cross-linguistic study of the evaluative collocates of English and Armenian verbs of understanding

open access: yesCrossroads, 2023
The paper studies the correlation between understanding and evaluation in the light of social interactions, and aims at exploring the metaphorical mapping of the process of understanding in the English and Armenian languages. The purpose of the paper is
Yelena Yerznkyan, Diana Movsisyan
doaj   +1 more source

COLLOCATIONS OF COLOR-DESIGNATING ADJECTIVES AND THEIR MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Science & Economic Research, 2023
This article explores the collocations of color-designating adjectives in their nominative and figurative meanings, examining their morphological structure and the nuanced relationship between color and language.
Nino Kemertelidze, Meri Giorgadze
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests”: metaphor and the language learner [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Research into metaphor in foreign language teaching has primarily focused on the comprehension process, with little if any attention being paid to its effect on students' spoken and written production.
Philip, Gill
core   +1 more source

Cognitive Metaphors of the Mind in the Canterbury Tales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The paper presents an analysis of a number of cognitive metaphors pertaining to the concept of mind (e.g. sanity and insanity), heart, and fire. The study has been based on the text of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Agnieszka Wawrzyniak   +18 more
core   +1 more source

Metaphorical conceptualizations of cancer treatment in English and Chinese languages

open access: yesInternational Journal of Language and Culture, 2022
Cross-cultural variation in the metaphors that are employed by healthcare researchers and professionals when discussing cancer care is a potential impediment to the sharing of expertise.
Mei Yung Vanliza Chow, J. Littlemore
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gloomy Images of Yellow and Żółty in a Corpus-Based Cognitive Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The outcomes confirm a conceptual proximity reflected in the semantics of these colour terms, which seems to be - perhaps surprisingly - incongruous with the popular association of yellow/żółty with the sun.
Gieroń-Czepczor, Ewa
core   +1 more source

DOES PANDEMIC HAVE A SILVER LINING? A CONTRASTIVE CORPUS STUDY OF COLLOCATIONS WITH PANDEMIC IN MEDIA TEXTS

open access: yesNaukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ», 2021
The research is devoted to the contrastive corpus analysis of the semantic prosody of collocations with PANDEMIC in the broadsheet ‘The Guardian’ and the tabloid ‘The Mirror’.
G. Tsapro, O. Sivaieva
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Double Nature of Metaphorical Conceptualization of Love in Persian: A Cognitive Approach [PDF]

open access: yesزبان پژوهی, 2020
This article aims to conduct a cognitive corpus-based study on the double nature in metaphorical conceptualization of “Love” in two metaphorical systems of emotions and human relationships in Persian language. In doing so, 15 Persian novels were selected
Masoud Tavakkoli Garmaseh
doaj   +1 more source

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