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On Anaphors Linked to Names Used Metaphorically [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 In their 2018 paper “On the Metaphoric Use of (Fictional) Proper Names”, Corazza & Genovesi explored what speakers do when they utter a fictional name in a metaphorical way to refer to actual individuals.
Eros Corazza, Christopher Genovesi
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Експресивизмите като реторично средство в публичната реч
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2021 Expressive Units as a Rhetoric Means in Public Speech. The aim of the study is to establish which language units in Bulgarian could be defined as expressive and what is their frequency and function in public speech.
Dencheva, Dilyana
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Emotions in Hospital School Professionals: An Approach from Cognitive Linguistics
Children, 2022 The question that frames this work is: What evidence of the emotional impact of working in hospital schools is found in the metaphorical language used by the professionals who work there? The purpose of this research is to contribute to the understanding
Álvaro Javier González Concha +2 more
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The Metaphors “Human-Animal”, “Animal-Human” in T. Morrison’s Novel “Beloved”
Дискурс, 2022 Introduction. The study investigates the role of the metaphors “human-animal”, “animalhuman” based on the novel “Beloved” by T. Morrison. The relevance of the research lies in the lack of knowledge of the linguistic specifics of this landmark novel for ...
J. G. Timralieva, M. S. Breitling
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Metaphors in political discourse [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2010 This paper analyzes metaphors usage within political discourse, i.e rhetoric of political public speech. The analysis is based on public speech held at Vukovi sabori manifestations from 1987-2005, by active politicians or cultural elite at a given time ...
Diković Jovana
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The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2017 This study sets out to join a discussion which tests a number of assumptions current in the study of conceptual history. These assumptions are: Conceptual history can only be studied within a given language; concepts are articulated in abstract words ...
Rudolf Wagner
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The economic speech in the french press [PDF]
Journal of Social Sciences, 2019 Our article aims to study the peculiarities of economic discourse through the analysis of economic articles from the French press of 2018. We notice the frequent use of metaphors, the trivialization of specialized vocabulary, and the use of terms of ...
SCORȚAN, Daniela
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La théâtralité académique. L’usage de la métaphore dans la recherche sociologique
Sociologie Românească, 2020 We propose to grasp conferences as an institutional ritual, which deploys a whole institutional theatricality. To do this, we use the metaphor of the orchestra; indeed each participant in the conference plays their part by adjusting to each other.
Gina Stoiciu
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VLEs: A Metaphorical History from Sharks to Limpets
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020 In this paper we chart the history of selected metaphors that have been used to describe Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) over the last 15 years. Martin Weller famously claimed in 2007 that “the VLE is dead”. This provocation positioned the VLE as an
Tom Farrelly +2 more
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Conceptual metaphors of sexual intercourse in Thai Yaoi fiction
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis study aimed to analyze the conceptual metaphors of sexual intercourse in Thai Yaoi fiction as well as analyze the conceptual system of Thai language users from the usage of metaphors following the Cognitive Semantics guideline.
Narongkan Rodsap, Methus Siriwat
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