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A Study of Using Metaphoric and Beat Gestures with Motion-Based and Non-Motion-Based Metaphors during Retelling Stories

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2022
In this paper, we classify metaphors into four categories: motion-based metaphors, static space-based metaphors, static object-based metaphors, and static event-based metaphors.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

On Anaphors Linked to Names Used Metaphorically [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon 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
doaj   +1 more source

Експресивизмите като реторично средство в публичната реч

open access: yesZeszyty 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

open access: yesChildren, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Metaphors “Human-Animal”, “Animal-Human” in T. Morrison’s Novel “Beloved”

open access: yesДискурс, 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
doaj   +1 more source

The strategic use of metaphors by political and media elites: the 2007-11 Belgian constitutional crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
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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Visual metaphors of school expressed through caricature [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Understanding the school as an institution and the educational process that takes place within it requires insight into how the school is perceived and experienced, not only by students, teachers, and parents, but also by the broader public.
Pavlović Zlatko M., Vučetić Vuk B.
doaj   +1 more source

Analogical Truth-Conditions for Metaphors [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
It has often been said that metaphors are based on analogies, but the nature of this relation has never been made precise. This article rigorously and formally specifies two semantic relations that do obtain between some metaphors and analogies.
Gentner D., Tirrell L.
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Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Classical Theory: Affinities Rather than Divergences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Conceptual Metaphor Theory makes some strong claims against so-called Classical Theory which spans the accounts of metaphors from Aristotle to Davidson.
Mácha, Jakub
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Determination of the perceptions of sports managers about sport concept: A metaphor analysis study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The aim of this research is to determine the perceptions of sport managers in Turkey on the concept of sport by means of metaphors. 74 sport managers participated in the research.
Kurtipek, S., Sönmezoğlu, Uğur
core   +1 more source

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