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, 2015 Mannerist architects in the Cinquecento created what can be called “tropic architecture.” They set out to break the rules of classical architecture, but the rule-breaking was done systematically, by applying rhetorical tropes, or figures of speech, to ...
Hendrix, John S
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 984-1002, December 2025.In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (tawasul
Charis Boutieri
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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Metonimija u arapskoj stilistici
Anali Gazi Husrev-Begove Biblioteke, 2009 Arabic authors define metonymy as the use of word in figurative sense, which is based on associations. Dealing with metonymy in Arabic stylistics is very much restricted by its referral character.
Munir Mujić
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On the distinction between metonymy and vertical polysemy in encyclopaedic semantics [PDF]
, 2005 In cognitive linguistics, metonymy is seen as a fundamental cognitive process where one conceptual entity affords access to another closely associated one. Cases of vertical polysemy have also often been treated as instances of metonymy (see e.g.
Koskela, Anu
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Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 2025.ABSTRACT This article investigates how the changing value of food due to the transition from famine to abundance after industrialization in the 1960s generated a shift in sociality and ways of being together in the Arbëreshë community, who immigrated to Molise during the sixteenth century.
Elisa Pastorelli
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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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The Civil War II Novel: From Speculation to Preparation
The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 58, Issue 5, Page 214-222, October 2025.ABSTRACT This article describes radical rightwing dystopian fictions set in near‐future versions of the USA, in which the nature of liberal society, combined with some disastrous catalyst, triggers armed resistance by authoritarian, libertarian, and/or secessionist forces, leading to a Second Civil War.
Geoff Boucher +2 more
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How to disentangle the metonymy – word-formation puzzle
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2018 The book ‘Metonymy and Word- Formation. Their Interactions and Complementation’ authored by Mario Brdar, proposes an original, insightful and extremely valuable look into the relation between two linguistic phenomena: metonymy and word formation.
Maja Brala-Vukanović
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Journal of World Philosophies, 2017 In this paper, I examine Kumārila Bhaṭṭa's account of figurative language in Tantravārttika 1.4.11-17, arguing that, for him, both metonymy (lakṣaṇā) and metaphor (gauṇa-vṛtti) crucially involve verbal postulation (śrutârthāpatti), a knowledge-conducive ...
Malcolm Keating
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