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The Role of Language in the Media in Influencing Public Perceptions of Refugees [PDF]
, 2018 The refugee crisis has become a worldwide epidemic in recent years. As refugee entrance into host countries is debated, media outlets are covering the issue regularly. These media outlets use various types of language when portraying refugees.
Pulliam, Alison M
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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors
American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Herstellung eines Phaffia rhodozyma : Stamms mit verstärkter Astaxanthin-Synthese über gezielte genetische Modifikation chemisch mutagenisierter Stämme [PDF]
, 2014 Ziel dieser Arbeit war es erstmals durch eine Kombination aus chemischer Mutagenese und gezielter genetischer Modifikation (hier: „metabolic engineering“) einen Phaffia-Stamm herzustellen, welcher über die Mutagenese hinaus über eine weiter verstärkte ...
Gassel, Sören
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Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 5, May 2025.ABSTRACT Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polysemy plays a crucial role: (i) Chomsky's argument against externalist semantics; (ii) copredication and zeugma; (iii) semantic accounts of ...
Michelle Liu
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Persian Bahuvrihi Compounds: The operation of metonymy and metaphor [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیThe present study aims towards investigating the conceptual motivation underlying the creation and understanding of Persian Bahuvrihi compounds. It is also trying to specify the conceptual types of these compounds according to the metonymical and ...
Masoumeh Diyanati, Reza Rezaei
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Intersemiotic translation and transformational creativity [PDF]
, 2015 In this article we approach a case of intersemiotic translation as a paradigmatic example of Boden’s ‘transformational creativity’ category. To develop our argument, we consider Boden’s fundamental notion of ‘conceptual space’ as a regular pattern of ...
Aguiar, Daniella +2 more
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The Role of Neologisms in the Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up Social Change?
WIREs Climate Change, Volume 16, Issue 2, March/April 2025.Neologisms reflect social change, but they may also indirectly influence it by increasing awareness and introducing new points of view. Graphic created using Canva's Free content. Credits: Aisha Villabona from sketchify, pikgura from PIKGURA Market, LOPSTUDIO, Eucalyp from amethyststudio, Зображення користувача Anastasiia Chornii, Mer Mendoza from ...
Greta Zella +3 more
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Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филологияThis review is devoted to the monograph «Lexical metonymy in linguistic and cognitive comprehension» by N.A. Ilyukhina, who examines the problems of using metonymic nomination of objects, processes and persons in various denotative and discursive spheres.
V. D. Shevchenko
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Українське мовознавство, 2016 Стаття присвячена дослідженню сучасних підходів до вивчення метонімії. Здійснено аналіз мовних, психологічних та когнітивних аспектів метонімічних перенесень. Основна увага зосереджена на концептуальній природі метонімічних перенесень, їхнього зв’язку з
Олена Гапченко
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Lesbian Love Sonnets: \u3cem\u3eTwenty-One Love Poems\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eRapture\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 This presentation provides a comparative analysis of the poetry collections Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich and Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy, focusing on the utilization and subversion of similar structural and thematic elements from the tradition ...
Seiler-Garman, Robin
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