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Is explaining more like showing or more like building?—Agency in metaphors of explaining [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Explanations play a crucial role in knowledge transfer and meaning-making and are often described as a co-constructive process in which multiple agents collaboratively shape understanding.
Philip Porwol, Ingrid Scharlau
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The 8-Factor reasoning styles scale: development, validation, and psychometric evaluation [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Psychology
Background Building on Hacking’s historical-philosophical notion of “styles of reasoning” and subsequent three-axis formalisation (Disposition, Perception, Organization), this study develops and validates the Eight-Factor Reasoning Styles Scale (8-FRSS).
Volkan Duran, Ferdi Çelık
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GUIDING THE NATION: METAPHORICAL FRAMING IN UK POLITICAL SPEECHES

open access: diamondFolium
This paper explores the use of conceptual metaphors in British political speeches by Boris Johnson, Theresa May, and the late Queen Elizabeth II. It aims to show how metaphorical framing directs public opinion and shapes British national identity.
Ольга Бешлей
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«I have ants in my pants»: Metaphorical Framing in Female’s Conversational Narratives of Osteoporosis

open access: diamondCultura, Lenguaje y Representación
Some changes that humans undergo in their bodies as they grow older are accompanied by a decline in health. Exclusively from the patients’ perspective, this paper is based on narratives of lived experiences related to osteoporosis, one chronic disease ...
Isabel Balteiro
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COGNITIVE ORGANISATION OF LITERARY IMAGE: METAPHORICAL FRAMING [PDF]

open access: diamondVestnik of Kostroma State University
Topicality of studying the artistic image, its ontological status and complex of functions in the paradigm of modern linguistics is determined by the need to understand the specifics of an artistic text as a result of the verbal and mental activity of the author and the receptive-interpretative activity of the reader in the process of aesthetic ...
Anna I. Dzyubenko
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Construction of Agency within Climate Change Framing in Media Discourse: a Corpus-Based Study

open access: yesRespectus 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]

open access: yesPLoS 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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Feminists are warriors: Framing effects of war metaphors

open access: yesCrossroads, 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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The DIVIDED SELF metaphor and conceptualizations of the internal conflict in suicide notes

open access: yesКогниция, 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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