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Eliciting Domain Knowledge Using Conceptual Metaphors: A Case Study from Music Interaction [PDF]
, 2014 Interaction design for domains that involve complex abstractions can prove challenging. This problem is particularly acute in domains where the intricate nature of domain-specific knowledge can be difficult for even the most experienced expert to ...
Holland, Simon +2 more
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, 2011 The prevalence of colourful metaphors and figurative language in critics' descriptions of artworks has long attracted attention. Talk of ‘liquid melodies,’ ‘purple prose,’ ‘soaring arches,’ and the use of still more elaborate figurative descriptions, is ...
Grant, James
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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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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 effect of cultural background on metaphor interpretation [PDF]
, 2003 This article describes a study that investigated the ways in which Bangladeshi students interpreted metaphors used by their lecturers during a short course at a British university.
Bertocci +4 more
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Cognitive Metaphors of the Mind in the Canterbury Tales [PDF]
, 2014 The paper presents an analysis of a number of cognitive metaphors pertaining to the concept of mind (e.g. sanity and insanity), heart, and fire. The study has been based on the text of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Agnieszka Wawrzyniak +18 more
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Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine [PDF]
Medical Humanities, 2015 Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind?
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Sensory and physico-psychological metaphor comprehension in children with ASD. A preliminary study on the outcomes of a treatment [PDF]
, 2017 Recent research into difficulties in figurative language in children with ASD highlighted that it is possible to devise training interventions to overcome these difficulties by teaching specific strategies.
DI FILIPPO, Gloria +2 more
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SPORTS IN METAPHOR AND METAPHOR IN SPORTS
Sportlogia, 2013 This paper looks at the metaphors and idioms in the English language that have sports as their motivation and attempts to draw certain parallels with their corresponding semantic equivalents in Serbian. To establish the origin of an idiom is not an easy task, it is even more difficult to segregate them in groups relating to the metaphorical motivation.
Dalibor Kesić, Emir Muhić
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Metaphor or not Metaphor: Is that the question?
Respectus Philologicus, 2020 This review concerns the volume Metaphor Identification in Multiple Languages. MIPVU around the world, edited by Susan Nacey, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse, published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2019.
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