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Spatial metaphors of the ancient world: theory and practice [PDF]
, 2016 Group C-2 of the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi Space and Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Texts is dedicated to the study of spatial metaphors and their functions in texts of different genres, languages, and epochs. This outline of the work of group C-
Breytenbach, Cilliers +8 more
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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 translatability of metaphor in LSP: application of a decision-making model [PDF]
, 2001 The pragmatic approach to translation implies the consideration of translation as a useful test case for understanding the role of language in social life.
Fuertes Olivera, Pedro Antonio +1 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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Analogical Truth-Conditions for Metaphors [PDF]
, 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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Evaluating musical software using conceptual metaphors [PDF]
, 2009 An open challenge for interaction designers is to find ways of designing software to enhance the ability of novices to perform tasks that normally require specialized domain expertise.
Holland, Simon +2 more
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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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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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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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