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Metaphors of a Metaphor

2016
Annali di Ca’ Foscari.
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The “Metaphor” Metaphor

2017
Abstract This chapter revisits Gareth Morgan’s seminal book Images of Organization and considers its main thesis—that organizations have no essence, but we can bring out their features through the metaphorical lenses we see them through—in the context of pragmatist-hermeneutical philosophy.
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Metaphors of glaucoma

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1983
In a phenomenological study of glaucoma as an illness, 31 patients were interviewed. The goal of the study was an explication of the meanings of the experience of glaucoma, in a twofold sense: (1) the face, the role, or the self of the patient that responds to the illness; (2) the visage that the illness presents to the patient.
R, Kugelmann, R E, Bensinger
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A Plea for Living Metaphors: Conflictual Metaphors and Metaphorical Swarms

Metaphor and Symbol, 2012
Now that the cognitive turn has highlighted the role of consistent and shared metaphorical concepts in human cognition and language, a comprehensive vision demands that living metaphors are paid due attention. The most typical and revealing instances of living metaphor are not poetic rewordings of shared and consistent metaphorical concepts but textual
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Metaphor as a Metaphor for Translation

2014
This chapter focuses on the different theoretical approaches developed with regard to the functioning of metaphor in an attempt to investigate the workings of translation and some of the stages translation studies has gone through. It also focuses on the meta-communicative potential of metaphor as a metaphor for translation.
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Metaphoricity:

2020
Whoever has an inclination toward the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty can sense manifest and multiple ties with the question of metaphor. The study of these linkages invites an examination of the philosopher’s original manner or style of writing, especially in the late texts; it also leads to a reading of what Merleau-Ponty says explicitly about metaphor ...
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The Death of the Metaphor Is Not a Metaphor

<div> This essay diagnoses a silent ontological rupture in contemporary culture: the death of metaphor not as a stylistic decline but as a fundamental transformation of language itself. Metaphors have not vanished—they have been consumed by their own literality, petrifying into operational instructions and infrastructural components of the ...
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The Beauty of Metaphors

Holistic Nursing Practice, 2013
Metaphors are a way of describing an experience or a perceived notion as a personal expression of thought. The metaphoric understanding of what practicing as a holistic nurse means is discussed with reference to the personal, emotional, and spiritual components of being a holistic nurse.
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Metaphors for metaphor translation

2010
This essay analyses the metaphors used by translation scholars to define metaphor translation. The topic has elicited a surge of interest in translation studies since the late 1970s, and here a corpus of some 15 essays is taken into account, covering a diverse range of approaches to the issue.
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