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Metaphor as categorisation: a connectionist implementation [PDF]
A key issue for models of metaphor comprehension is to explain how in some metaphorical comparison , only some features of B are transferred to A. The features of B that are transferred to A depend both on A and on B.
Thomas, Michael S.C., Mareschal, Denis
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(Mega-) metaphor in the text-worlds of economic crisis: towards a situated view of metaphor in discourse [PDF]
Building on Werth’s (1994) notion of ‘megametaphor’, in this thesis I examine the discourse-level conceptual effects of metaphor in five op-ed articles about the 2008 British financial crisis.
Browse, Sam
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Using a semantic annotation tool for the analysis of metaphor in discourse. [PDF]
This paper describes the application of semantic annotation software for analysing metaphor in corpora of different genres. In particular, we outline three projects analysing RELIGION and POLITICS metaphors in corporate mission statements, the WAR ...
Hardie, Andrew +3 more
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“Russian Bear” in the Spanish-Language Media Discourse
The article examines the role of the bear metaphor in the Spanish-language political discourse. The relevance of the study is due, firstly, to the intensification of cooperation between Russia and Latin American countries, the effectiveness of which can ...
Liudmila L. Kleshchenko
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Metaphors in political communication [PDF]
Abstract This article analyses the use of (deliberate) metaphors in political discourse produced by French-speaking Belgian regional parliamentarians during non-institutional political interviews. The article first investigates if the use of deliberate metaphor limits itself to a particular type ...
Pauline Heyvaert +4 more
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Aspects of the problems of translating metaphor, with special reference to modern Arabic poetry [PDF]
This thesis examines a crucial area in the translation of poetic discourse, the translatability of modern Arabic metaphor into English. Two main questions are addressed. Firstly, what makes a particular metaphor easy to translate? Secondly, what makes
Obeidat, Hisham T. B.
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POLITICAL METAPHOR IN CORONAVIRUS MEDIA COVERAGE
This present study is aimed at taking a look at the Covid-19 coverage in political discourse considering the metaphor-based method. This article mainly aims at examining the substantial role of metaphor as well as language in a manner we understand and ...
Olga N. Prokhorova +5 more
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MULTIMODAL METAPHOR IN ADVERTISEMENT [PDF]
Metaphor based on the cognitive linguistic view can be defined as a tool which allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another. What usually happens is that we use a physical. What we need to comprehend, is the target domain.
Nahdyah Sari Daulay +5 more
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Hugo Chávez and the building of his self-image through metaphor [PDF]
In the last decades metaphor has been much researched from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. One of the metaphor research lines has been the study of metaphor in specialized genres, including politics (Musolff, 2004).
Isabel Negro Alousque
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Types of Political Metaphors in the Indonesian Mass Media
The purpose of the study was to reveal political metaphor data focused on classifying types of conceptual metaphors. The data source used is the text of political discourse in the Indonesian national mass media (kompas, antaranews, republika, detik, and ...
M. Surip, M. Joharis Lubis
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