Communicating telecom fraud risk in anti-telefraud messages: The effects of metaphorical frames on attitudes [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionWith the frequent occurrences of telecom fraud crimes in China, it is very necessary and urgent to carry out effective anti-telefraud risk communication. In the present study, we investigated the role of metaphorical framing in shaping people’
Mengna Liu, Jinshi Chen
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The Double Framing Effect of Emotive Metaphors in Argumentation [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In argumentation, metaphors are often considered as ambiguous or deceptive uses of language leading to fallacies of reasoning. However, they can also provide useful insights into creative argumentation, leading to genuinely new knowledge.
Francesca Ervas +3 more
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Metaphorical construction of the belt and road initiative in German media: a transnational study based on critical metaphor analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionMedia representations of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) play a significant role in shaping public understanding of China’s flagship transnational initiative. Despite growing scholarly interest in BRI discourse, the metaphorical mechanisms
Haiying Qiu
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Constructing the national image of “China” in press conference interpreting: a corpus-based critical metaphor analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study investigates the role of conceptual metaphors in constructing China’s national image within Chinese-English press conference interpreting.MethodsDrawing on Critical Metaphor Analysis and the online corpus tool Wmatrix, the research
Congran Zhang
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How to Disrupt Harmful Corporate Political Activity?; Comment on “Corporate Political Activity: Taxonomies and Model of Corporate Influence on Public Policy” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and ManagementUlucanlar and colleagues’ model of corporate political activity by unhealthy commodity industries identifies cross-industry framing and actions that block public health policies. While the model helps to understand policy inertia around the prevention of
Luc L. Hagenaars +1 more
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Cogent EducationThe prevalence of neuromyths, such as ‘learning styles’, persists among teachers and preservice teachers despite substantial evidence refuting their efficacy.
Emmanuel Sander
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Construction of Agency within Climate Change Framing in Media Discourse: a Corpus-Based Study
Respectus Philologicus, 2023 The study addresses the role of linguistic agency in framing climate change in media discourse based on the corpus of 75 articles from leading British and American news outlets.
Natalie Kramar
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When do natural language metaphors influence reasoning? A follow-up study to Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2013). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 In this article, we offer a critical view of Thibodeau and Boroditsky who report an effect of metaphorical framing on readers' preference for political measures after exposure to a short text on the increase of crime in a fictitious town: when crime was ...
Gerard J Steen +2 more
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The DIVIDED SELF metaphor and conceptualizations of the internal conflict in suicide notes
Когниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2023 This paper presents DIVIDED SELF metaphor analysis conducted drawing from the discourse of suicidal notes. The suicide notes represent a distinct genre because of its typical rhetorical structure and communicative purpose.
Nika Ananieva
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Feminists are warriors: Framing effects of war metaphors
Crossroads, 2023 Metaphors influence general attitudes towards political and social ideas (Otieno et al. 2016). In particular, war metaphors are very common in political discourse.
Florencia Reali, Lucien Avellaneda
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