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Are metaphorical paths and roads ever paved? : corpus analysis of real and imagined journeys [PDF]
, 2010 This paper provides a corpus linguistic analysis of verbs included in English path-, road- and way-sentences. My claim is that many of the differences between metaphorical and non-metaphorical patterns including these terms are related to a qualitative ...
Johansson Falck, Marlene +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
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Poljarnyj Vestnik: Norwegian Journal of Slavic Studies, 2008 This article presents a description of culinary terms in Russian and Norwegian, and deals with the contrastive study of metaphorical expressions containing such terms, making a special point of their origin, thematic variety and linguistic properties ...
Olga Komarova
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Mental health is a critical issue globally, with young people being one of the most affected groups. Young people have campaigned vehemently for a ‘curriculum for life,’ arguing that their education is failing to meet their needs (British Council, 2022).
Lisa Stephenson, Helen Young
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick +6 more
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Cognitive Linguistics, or Why is Time Metaphorical? (based on Everyday Speech and Social Networks
Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети, 2022 The present study featured some issues of cognitive linguistics. George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Joan Bybee, and Carla Bazzanella argue that our everyday speech reflects how we perceive the world.
Olga V. Kobzeva
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A Note on Psychological Disorders Named After Cities
Names, 2014 This note surveys behavioral syndromes named after cities. Ten such syndromes are examined and are categorized in terms of their tourism, hostage taking, and metaphorical associations.
Ernest Lawrence Abel
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‘I was treated as a deficit’: Immigrant teachers' career progression in Australia
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrant teachers have long been recruited through skilled and employer‐sponsored migration schemes to address teacher shortages in Australia, yet their career trajectories remain constrained by systemic inequities that limit their integration and professional development opportunities.
Ching Ting Tany Kwee +2 more
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The Life and Death of a Metaphor, or the Metaphysics of Metaphor
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2008 This paper addresses two issues: (1) what it is for a metaphor to be either alive or dead and (2) what a metaphor must be in order to be either alive or dead.
Josef Stern
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Lenticchie, semole e uova di tacchino: sui nomi delle lentiggini nei dialetti italiani
Géolinguistique, 2016 This article contains an onomasiological and motivational analysis of the various Italian dialectal terms for freckles found in national and regional atlases.
Federica Cugno
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