Does the COVID-19 war metaphor influence reasoning?
PLoS ONE, 2021 In recent times, many alarm bells have begun to sound: the metaphorical presentation of the COVID-19 emergency as a war might be dangerous, because it could affect the way people conceptualize the pandemic and react to it, leading citizens to endorse ...
Francesca Panzeri +2 more
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On the path of time: Temporal motion in typological perspective [PDF]
, 2020 The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the linguistic patterns used in these two mappings.
Duffy, Sarah, Feist, Michele
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Understanding metaphor: A relational frame perspective [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst, 2001 The current article presents a basic functional-analytic interpretation of metaphor. This work involves an extension of Skinner's (1957) interpretation of metaphor using relational frame theory (RFT). A basic RFT interpretation of a particular metaphor is outlined, according to which the metaphor acquires its psychological effects when formal stimulus ...
I, Stewart, D, Barnes-Holmes
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‘Waves’ and ‘flashes’ of the pandemic: How COVID-19 metaphors in Russian media influence reasoning [PDF]
World of Media, 2022 In this study, we examined how metaphors used in the Russian media to describe the COVID-19 virus affect the audience’s judgment about the virus and their willingness to take a vaccine.
Ivan Aslanov
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Personal Ideals as Metaphors [PDF]
, 2017 What is it to have and act on a personal ideal? Someone who aspires to be a philosopher might imaginatively think “I am a philosopher” by way of motivating herself to think hard about a philosophical question.
Riggle, Nick
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Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide [PDF]
, 2018 This paper mobilizes transdisciplinary inquiry to explore and deconstruct the often-used comparison of racialized/colonized people, intellectually disabled people and mad people as being like children.
Lefrancois, B. A., Mills, C.
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Emotional Implications of Metaphor: Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer [PDF]
Metaphor and Symbol, 2018 When faced with hardship, how do we emotionally appraise the situation? Although many factors contribute to our reasoning about hardships, in this article we focus on the role of linguistic metapho...
Rose K. Hendricks +3 more
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Conceiving God: Literal and Figurative Prompt for a More Tectonic Distinction [PDF]
, 2018 John Sanders’ Theology in the Flesh, the first comprehensive overview of the toolkit that contemporary cognitive linguistics offers for theological appropriation, despite its remarkable success, gives rather minimal attention to blending theory, one of ...
Masson, Robert
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The strategic use of metaphors by political and media elites: the 2007-11 Belgian constitutional crisis [PDF]
, 2013 On 9 December 2011 a new Belgian government was sworn in after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations between all democratic political forces with the aim to alter the constitution and provide more autonomy to the different regions that make up ...
Cammaerts, Bart
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'Riots engulfed the city':an experimental study investigating the legitimating effects of fire metaphors in discourses of disorder [PDF]
, 2018 In Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), metaphor is identified as a key index of ideology and an important device in the legitimation of social action.
Chan JM +32 more
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