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The use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays by intermediate and advanced EFL students
LingBaW, 2017 This article involves an empirical linguistic study aimed at elucidating the use of metonymy and metaphor in descriptive essays written by a group of intermediate EFL students (further referred to as ‘participants’).
Oleksandr Kapranov
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Magical urbanism:Walter Benjamin and utopian realism in the film Ratcatcher [PDF]
, 2002 Deploys Walter Benjamin to discuss fantastical representations of childhood and class in the film ...
Law, Alex, Law, Jan
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Le traducteur et son image. Étude des couvertures d’ouvrages de traductologie
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2021 The front cover of a book usually contains the title, the authors’names, the publisher’s logo and an illustration. All these elements announce the content of the book, and the paraverbal elements (illustration, typographical arrangement…) can also be ...
Elżbieta Skibińska
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Pictorially displayed metaphors as an assessment instrument [PDF]
Journal of Family Therapy, 1986 The accuracy of a novel assessment instrument compared with conjoint family interview derived diagnoses is reported. The assessment instrument consisted of seven illustrations containing disguised depictions of family organizational styles and two distractors.
A. Fosson, M. Quan
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The N1–N2–LPC Pattern in Processing Advertising Pictorial Metaphors: An ERP Study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 We investigated what the temporal processing is of advertising pictorial metaphors. After presenting “a word of product” and “its advertising pictures,” the experiment instructed participants to make a follow-up true–false judgment considering what the ...
Shuo Cao +5 more
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Recognition of animated icons by elementary‐aged children [PDF]
, 1993 This paper describes a study to investigate the recognizability of and preference for animated icons by elementary‐aged aged children. Fourteen typical computer‐related tasks (e.g., copy, move) were viewed by 60 school‐children in two iconic formats ...
Jones, Tom
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Myth, Land, and History in the Poetry of James Clarence Mangan and Ernest Jones [PDF]
, 2015 This essay discusses poetry associated with Irish nationalism and Chartism. Chartism’s eventual de facto leader, Ernest Jones, was an admired and prolific poet; as Irish poets including James Clarence Mangan were helping to forge a new Irish cultural ...
Rennie, Simon
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RiCognizioni, 2019 This paper outlines and discusses the main findings and the main open issues related to the analysis of figurative language (in particular, metaphor and metonymy) used within the genre of advertising and social campaigns.
Marianna Bolognesi
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Didactic potential of metaphors used in medical discourse
LingBaW, 2017 Specialist languages should be straightforward and unambiguous. In areas such as law, business or medicine precision and to-the-point wording is required.
Katarzyna Karska, Ewelina Prażmo
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Visual geographies : an editorial [PDF]
, 2009 The use of image-processing procedures and techniques and their products – photographs, aerial photographs, satellite images, maps – and the application of GIS and GPS, so-called "geomatics" (Thornes, 2004:787), are taken for granted in academic ...
Miggelbrink, Judith, Schlottmann, Antje
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