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The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study [PDF]

, 2015
Objective To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health professionals use Violence and Journey metaphors when writing online; and to investigate the use of these metaphors by patients with cancer, in view of critiques of ...
Rayson, P., Demmen, J, Koller, Veronika, Semino, Elena, Demjen, Zsofia, Koller, V, Semino, E., Payne, Sheila, Rayson, P, Demjén, Z, Payne, S., Payne, S, Hardie, Andrew, Hardie, A., Rayson, Paul, Hardie, A, Koller, V., Semino, E, Demjen, Z., Demmen, Jane   +19 more
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A Comparative Cognitive Linguistic Investigation of Linguistic Landscapes in Shanghai, China

SAGE Open
This study explores English metaphors in the linguistic landscapes of Shanghai, China, focusing on four distinct research sites: Biyun, Gubei, Xin Tiandi, and the Bund.
Jun Zhou, Hicham Lahlou, Yasir Azam
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Biblical place names as metaphorical frames of hope in online Nigerian Pentecostal church poster themes

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Nigerian Pentecostal churches have increasingly utilised online posters as pulpits beyond church walls, transitioning from programme advertisements to subtle, and sometimes complex platforms for sociocultural commentary.
Nkechi Ukaegbu, Chinedu Ezebube
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COMO SE TRADUZ METÁFORA? UMA ANÁLISE COM BASE NA TEORIA DA METÁFORA CONCEITUAL

Linguagem em Foco, 2019
Este trabalho é uma aproximação entre os estudos da linguagem figurada na Linguística Cognitiva e os estudos de tradução. Apresentamos uma análise de duas traduções para o português do conto inglês “A Scandal in Bohemia”, de Arthur Conan Doyle.
Laura Baiocco, Maity Siqueira
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Metaphorical Euphemisms in Dholuo Marriage Conflict Resolution Program ‘Dak Man Gi Ndhadhu’ on Radio Nam Lolwe

Journal of Pragmatics Research
This paper investigates the Marriage Conflict Resolution (MCR) discourse among Dholuo speakers, which is full of taboo words, particularly those with sexual connotations and other obscenities.
Felix Owino, Benard Mudogo, Gervasio Miriti   +2 more
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The conceptual metaphors of memory: Cases of interdomanial nomadism from computer science to quantum computing

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Conceptual metaphors, which help conceptualizing one concept in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson [1980]), often migrate from a source scientific domain onto another.
Charlène Meyers
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The Language of Emotion: A Corpus-Based Cognitive-Stylistic Analysis of Grief and Loss in Namwali Serpell’s The Furrows and Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet

Falcons Journal of Advanced Research
Grief is an intensely subjective emotional experience whose abstract nature makes metaphor, embodiment, spatialization, and repetition central to its literary representation.
Sadia Parveen, Sohail Falak Sher, Muhammad Hammad Javed   +2 more
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Let's (not) talk about sex: x-phemistic sex metaphors in agony aunt columns for men and women. [PDF]

, 2022
The present thesis focuses on the metaphorical X-phemismistic expressions in sex and relationship advice columns meant for men and women. The aim of this study is to examine the metaphorical Xphemism use in the discourse of advice giving and how the ...
Gelažiūtė, Gabrielė,
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The Construction of Conceptual Metaphors in the Discourse of BIPA Learners: A Cross-Cultural Thematic Study

Jurnal Iqra': Kajian Ilmu Pendidikan
Metaphorical competence has been recognized as essential to advanced communicative proficiency in a second language, yet Indonesian as a Foreign Language (BIPA) has remained entirely absent from this research landscape, despite rapid global growth in ...
Istiqomah Putri Lushinta, Eri Kurniawan, R. Dian Dia-an Muniroh   +2 more
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SIG DLS Activities and COVID-19

, 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic also affects the SIG DLS. Our forthcoming Workshop on “Tool Criticism 3.0, originally scheduled for DH2020 at Ottawa, Canada, will not take place in in-person format. We will keep you posted as to new developments.
J. Berenike Herrmann
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