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Constructing trustworthiness through pictorial and multimodal metaphor : An exploration of corporate visual rhetoric

open access: yes, 2014
Trust is a pervasive feature of social life and a basic element of both intimate and distant interpersonal relations. Every decision to trust other people, however, involves a certain degree of risk, as our ability to attain full knowledge of their ...
Hommerberg, Charlotte,, Fuoli, Matteo,
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Music as a scientific metaphor for mind and brain. [PDF]

open access: yesNeurosci Biobehav Rev
Ibanez A   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Modelling Metaphor

open access: yes, 2006
This paper presents definitions of metaphor and metonymy designed to be useful for investigating how metaphor/metonymy is used by learners and how the use of metaphor/ metonymy changes as learners become more proficient. The definitions, using the ‘stack
Denroche, C.
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Multimodal metaphor: Word-image interactions

open access: yesStudia Linguistica
Agnieszka Libura
doaj   +1 more source

Child-Directed Speech Is Semantically Constrained: Evidence From Metaphoricity and Concreteness. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Mind (Camb)
Feurstein L   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Attributional Metaphor in Railway Terminology

open access: yes
The report provides the analysis of two types of metaphor, the attributional and relational ones. The former is based on mere appearance matches while the latter is formed on the grounds of relational commonalities.
Tretjakova, Jeļena
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Mixing in pictorial and multimodal metaphors?

open access: yes, 2016
"Mixed metaphors" in language use two or more different source domains to predicate something about the same target domain in a short stretch of discourse. This often leads to unintendedly humorous results and is usually considered bad style. Given that metaphors may be expressed pictorially or multimodally as well as verbally, one may ask whether non ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Metaphor in RailwayTerminology

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Metaphor has long been regarded as the trope used in literature and poetry. The second half of the 20th century has changed the viewpoint and looked at metaphor as a widely-used linguistic means in various discourses with terminology of no exception. The
Tretjakova, Jeļena
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