Difficulties in Identifying and Translating Linguistic Metaphors: A Survey and Experiment among Translation Students [PDF]
English Studies at NBU, 2019 A survey of twelve translation students in 2017 revealed that they tend to find translating figurative and metaphorical language difficult. In addition, an experiment also conducted in 2017 showed similar results.
Charlène Meyers
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MIP-IT: Identificazione delle metafore linguistiche in italiano. Una proposta preliminare tra questioni teoriche e problemi pratici [PDF]
, 2023 L’obiettivo principale del presente contributo è quello di discutere quelli che sono i principali problemi pratici nell’iter di applicazione della MIP, procedura per l’identificazione delle metafore nel discorso, all’italiano.
Paola Vernillo, Vernillo, Paola
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Identificación de metonimias y metáforas: cuestiones metodológicas
Lenguaje, 2015 El trabajo busca adaptar el MIPVU (Metaphor Identification Procedure of Vrije Universiteit, Steen et al., 2010) a la identificación de metonimias. Para esto, se revisan críticamente tres definiciones de metonimia –la definición en términos de dominios ...
Marina Berri, Lucía Bregant
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REPRESENTATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN EKEGUSII PROVERBIAL METAPHORS: AN IMAGE SCHEMATIC ACCOUNT [PDF]
, 2023 Proverbial metaphors are useful resources for communicating known truths about life in a given community. Most African proverbial metaphors, however, make reference to customs and situations that might be unfamiliar to some language users especially ...
Ntabo, Victor Ondara +1 more
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Diskursmetaphorik und ihre sprachlichen Indikatoren sowie Textmuster im literarischen Diskurs „Ich und Kaminski“ von Daniel Kehlmann [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2021 Metaphors were considered the research privilege of literary studies for a long time. However, with the cognitive turn of the 1980s a new approach emerged in modern linguistics, and linguists, for the first time, turned sharply away from the classic ...
Renáta Péter-Szabó
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ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2019 Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor within ...
Mujagić Mersina, Berberović Sanja
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Developing productive metaphoric competence through a frame-inspired task-based teaching model
Crossroads, 2023 The paper reports preliminary findings from applying a frame-inspired task-based approach to metaphor teaching in an EFL classroom. The teaching model used combines Frame Semantics, a cognitive linguistic theory that takes a usage-based view of meaning,
Thomai Dalpanagioti
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Swedish Learners of English and Their Use of Linguistic Metaphor
, 2022 This study investigates linguistic metaphors used by Swedish learners of English in upper secondary school. The aim is to provide a measure of the amount and distribution of metaphor in learner English, with the secondary aim of evaluating the method. 24
Ahlin, Angelica
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Metaphors in Kaba tuanku lareh simawang story
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature, 2023 This paper discusses the use of metaphor in Kaba Tuanku Lareh Simawang. Using the Metaphor Identification Procedure at Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU) method, this study analyzes the metaphorical expressions found in the text, which was written by Syamsuddin
Muhardis, Yulia Fitrina
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Words for the hearts: a corpus study of metaphors in online depression communities
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Purpose/significanceHumans understand, think, and express themselves through metaphors. The current paper emphasizes the importance of identifying the metaphorical language used in online health communities (OHC) to understand how users frame and make ...
Jiayi Shi, Zhaowei Khoo
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