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How do media talk about the Covid-19 pandemic? Metaphorical thematic clustering in Italian online newspapers [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2022 The contribution presents a study on figurative language of the first months of the COVID-19 crisis in Italian online newspapers. Particularly, we contrast topics and metaphorical language used by journalists in the first and second phase of the ...
Busso L, Tordini O.
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Numerical and Evolutionary Optimization Workshop, 2020 In this article we argue in favor of a useful model to explain the productive mechanisms of formation of verb + noun metaphorical collocations. We postulate that verbo-nominal collocations, relating to human activities and relating to the fields of ...
Cosimo De Giovanni
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Heart metaphors in Pope Francis’ speeches
Calidoscópio, 2019 This paper, based on the theoretical background of Corpus Linguistics, Phraseology, and Cognitive Semantics, aims at analyzing, in a corpus compiled from Pope Francis’ speeches, from 2013 to 2015, the metaphorical meanings emerged from phraseologisms ...
Jean Michel Pimentel Rocha +2 more
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Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary [PDF]
, 1994 We describe a method of using statistically-collected Chinese character groups from a corpus to augment a Chinese dictionary. The method is particularly useful for extracting domain-specific and regional words not readily available in machine-readable ...
Fung, Pascale, Wu, Dekai
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CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN BASKETBALL DISCOURSE [PDF]
Respectus Philologicus, 2013 This article presents part of the research performed within the scope of the national project “Conceptual Metaphors in Public Discourse,”1 financed by the Research Council of Lithuania.
Reda Toleikienė +1 more
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Gender identities in e-shop perfume descriptions
Topics in Linguistics, 2021 Perfume descriptions serve as an important persuasive tool in fragrance advertising. Scents traditionally elude clear verbal description, yet perfumes are nowadays frequently sold online, with no direct olfactory experience on the part of the consumer at
Nemčoková Katarína +3 more
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International Journal of Lexicography, 2019 Although conceptual metaphor boxes were introduced in Macmillan English Dictionary over a decade ago, the effect of this innovative presentation on the retention of metaphorical collocations remains unclear.
Yuanjun Dai, Zhiwei Wu, Hai Xu
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Approche cognitive de la traduction dans les langues de spécialité : vers une systématisation de la description de la conceptualisation métaphorique [PDF]
, 2005 Département de linguistique et de traductionLa conceptualisation métaphorique est un processus fondamental de la pensée largement mis en oeuvre dans la modélisation scientifique, y compris en biomédecine.
Lubin, Leslie, Vandaele, Sylvie
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Analysing Lexical Semantic Change with Contextualised Word Representations [PDF]
, 2020 This paper presents the first unsupervised approach to lexical semantic change that makes use of contextualised word representations. We propose a novel method that exploits the BERT neural language model to obtain representations of word usages ...
Del Tredici, Marco +2 more
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Hvor mange fraser er der i dansk?
Hermes, 2005 It is my intention to put aside all tiresome discussions of phrase terminology, take the terminology of Brink 2004 for granted, and produce some new empirical facts about phrases, answering questions like: How many phrases are there in Danish – in total ...
Lars Brink
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