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Metonymy as a Pragma-Rhetorical Feature in some Speeches of Imam Ali

آداب الكوفة, 2017
The speech of Prophet Mohammad and his progeny (P.B.U.T) is regarded a main source for several sciences such as rhetoric and eloquence. Their speeches are expected to be an adequate corpus of analysis in the light of modern linguistic theories. As such,
Fareed Hameed d Al-Hindawi, Hani Kamel Al-Ebadi   +1 more
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Metonymy [PDF]

Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1992
In this article we outline a basic approach to treating metonymy properly in a multilingual machine translation system. This is the first attempt at treating metonymy in an machine translation environment. The approach is guided by the differences of acceptability of metonymy which were obtained by our comparative survey among three languages, English,
Shin-ichiro Kamei, Takahiro Wakao
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Cognitive Principles in the Basis of Default Metonymy

Izvestiâ Ûžnogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta: Filologičeskie Nauki, 2016
The article studies metonymy in English. Traditionally metonymy is understood as a stylistic device. This, however, does not explain the cases of everyday or ‘default’ metonymy, such as ‘to go to the blackboard’ (in the meaning of answering the home task)
Milkevich Elena Stepanovna
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The study of metaphor as part of Critical Discourse Analysis [PDF]

, 2012
This article discusses how the study of metaphoric and more generally, figurative language use contributes to critical discourse analysis (CDA). It shows how cognitive linguists’ recognition of metaphor as a fundamental means of concept- and argument ...
Andreas Musolff, Barcelona A., Black M., Bosmajian H., Cameron L., Carver T., Charteris-Black J., Chilton P., Fairclough N., Fauconnier G., Goatly A., Grice P., Hawkins B., Johnson M., Kövecses Z., Kövecses Z., Lakoff G., Lakoff G., Lakoff G., Lakoff G., Leezenberg M., Lovejoy A. O., Maalej Z., Mahon J. E., Musolff A., Musolff A., Panther K.-U., Radden G., Rash F., Reisigl M., Richards I. A., Richardson J. E., Ricoeur P., Semino E., Sontag S., Sperber D., Steen G., Tendahl M., Wodak R., Wodak R., Yu N.   +40 more
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
wiley   +1 more source

Poetry, citizenship and diplomacy: The case of Western Sahara

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article argues for greater consideration of the role of poetry and poets in diplomacy and as a medium for the recognition of contested citizenships. We take Western Sahara, the site of an ongoing anti‐colonial war, as our case study and explore how Saharawi poets engage foreign publics in their national struggle to become citizens ...
Joanna Allan, Moiti Mohamed Azrouk
wiley   +1 more source

Speaking to One's Heart: דבר and its Semantic Extension

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2016
Cognitive linguists are increasingly recognising the value of metonymy for understanding the way language works. This article applies recent advancements in the theory of metonymy to the Hebrew noun דבר in order to explain its broad semantic range.
Natalie Mylonas, Stephen Llewelyn, Gareth Wearne   +2 more
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Figures of interpretation [PDF]

, 2009
This peer-reviewed article was intended to contribute to the general pedagogy of practice-led doctoral research through addressing the particular methodological issue of the relationship between written text and practice.
Rahtz, Dominic
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Metaphoric coherence: Distinguishing verbal metaphor from `anomaly\u27 [PDF]

, 1992
Theories and computational models of metaphor comprehension generally circumvent the question of metaphor versus “anomaly” in favor of a treatment of metaphor versus literal language.
Aarts J., Barnden J., Brugman C., Carbonell J., Carbonell J., Drange T., Fass D., Fass D., Fass D., Fass D., Gentner D., Hayes P., Hobbs J., Hobbs J., Jackendoff R., Lakoff G., Levin S., Martin J., Norman D., Ortony A., Osgood C., Perrault C., Russell S. Weber, Russell S. Weber, Russell S. Weber, Schank R., Schank R., Smith E., Talmy L., Talmy L., Thomas O., Wilks Y.   +31 more
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Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
wiley   +1 more source