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“We Rose from the Ashes of Despair”: A Pragma-Stylistic Analysis of Metaphor in President Tinubu’s 2024-2025 Democracy Day Speeches

open access: yesДискурс профессиональной коммуникации
In post-authoritarian democracies, commemorative speeches serve as crucial sites for reinforcing national cohesion and legitimising state power, yet they remain largely understudied in political discourse analysis.
Reuben Kende
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‘We want to be the hosts of this story’: Learning from community‐led approaches to data governance of land use for nature recovery

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Debates abound regarding how to use land for nature recovery and environmental governance. Such decisions require an understanding of benefits and trade‐offs, and increasingly rely on vast quantities of data, delivered through digital technologies.
Lucy Jenner   +3 more
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Chinese Political Media Discourse: The “Flow of Water” Conceptual Metaphor in the Verbalization of Russia-China Cooperation

open access: yesДискурс
Introduction. The article explores the actualization of the “flow of water” metaphor in the media discourse on Russian-Chinese cooperation. The aim of this work is to identify the cognitive and cultural mechanisms of using this metaphor in the official ...
X. Chen, V. V. Boguslavskaya
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Unpacking the task of synthesis when weaving knowledge systems for biodiversity assessments

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The pivot towards evidence‐based conservation since 2000 has inspired global environmental assessments to gather evidence across multiple knowledge systems, including through co‐production with Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Knowledge co‐production is highlighted as a strategy for transformative change towards a just future that ...
Maria Tengö   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contagious Metaphor

open access: yes
The metaphor of contagion pervades critical discourse across the humanities, the medical sciences, and the social sciences. It appears in such terms as 'social contagion' in psychology, 'financial contagion' in economics, 'viral marketing' in business ...
Mitchell, Peta.
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The Symbiocene as a transformative vision

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We live in times of crises and calls for a transformative social‐ecological change are voiced increasingly often. The question is, however, how such a transformation could be achieved. The prevailing view is that we are living in an era in which human activities significantly altered planet Earth: the Anthropocene. According to this narrative,
Tina Heger, Oliver Szasz
wiley   +1 more source

Scheda bibliografica di Analysing political speeches: Rhetoric, discourse and metaphor

open access: yes, 2015
Scheda bibliografica completa, comprensiva di abstract, del seguente volume: Jonathan Charteris-Black. 2013. Analysing political speeches: Rhetoric, discourse and metaphor.
DEGANI, Marta
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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forensic deliberations on ‘purposeful metaphor’

open access: yes, 2012
The concept of ‘purposeful metaphor’ is proposed as an alternative to ‘deliberate metaphor’ (Steen, 2008) in providing a theory of metaphor in discourse and communication. The case for ‘purposeful metaphor’ is framed within a discussion of intentionality
Charteris-Black, Jonathan
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A Hero's Journey to Systemic Change: Developing Expertise in Agricultural Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Experts in rural development and agrarian change wield considerable influence over programme design and delivery, directing resources and shaping trajectories towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet the pathways through which such expertise develops remain under‐examined. This study examines the journey to expertise among experts
Kirt Hainzer   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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