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Budding metaphors: Input-output effects in metaphor production.

PLoS ONE
This paper presents a longitudinal analysis of input-output effects in the production of metaphoric expressions by children aged two to five. The group case-study design adopted in this project involved longitudinally sampled corpora of naturalistic ...
Dorota Katarzyna Gaskins, Gabriella Rundblad   +1 more
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Primary conceptual metaphors and what they inform us of our embodied mind: a study of five primary conceptual metaphors in Persian

, 2023
In the thesis, I study five primary conceptual metaphors GOOD IS UP, BAD IS DOWN, BEING IN CONTROL IS BEING ABOVE, IMPORTANT IS CENTRAL, and NOW IS HERE in Persian to examine their mapping and experiential basis. The thesis is based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980), and the primary conceptual metaphors have been ...
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Metaphor as a Factor of Evolutionary Variability of Scientific Theories

Антиномии
The article analyzes philosophical problems related to the study of the verbalization of new knowledge. Special attention is given to identifying the place and role of metaphor in the linguistic expression of this knowledge.
Alexander M. Zharov
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On the Semiotic Model of Image

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2018
The article is devoted to the development of a fundamental semiotic model of images that is based on the categorical apparatus of Ch. S. Peirce (on the concepts of Firstness, icon, hypoicon and metaphor).
Fomin I. V.
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A Cognitive -Semantic Study of Love Metaphor in Mawlawi Poems

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study is entitled "A Cognitive Semantic Study of Love Metaphor in Mawlawi Poems". It is an attempt to construe the semantic aspects of Mawlawi's poetic texts in light of the cognitive semantic approach. The study, through a linguistic and cognitive
Karzan Abdullah Jezhny
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“A glass half full” or “a breastless dwarf”: Metaphorical talk in women’s accounts of Turner syndrome

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This paper examines body-related metaphors used by Polish women to describe lived experiences associated with Turner syndrome (TS), and highlights the contribution this form of analysis can make to the study of health, emotional well-being, and social ...
Kamila Ciepiela
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Ontological Metaphors in English Business Economics Terminology and Their Equivalence in Vietnamese

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives
This study investigates the use of ontological metaphors in the nomination of business economics terminology in English and their equivalent representations in Vietnamese.
Nguyen Thi Thuy Hanh
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Primary Metaphors Are Both Cultural and Embodied [PDF]

, 2017
Bodo Winter, Teenie Matlock
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Between pantheism and monotheism: Goethe's religious conception in mahomets gesang through the lens of conceptual metaphor theory

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
This article examines how Goethe's Mahomets Gesang (1773/74) conceptualizes religious experience through metaphor and how its central metaphorical network mediates between pantheistic immanence and monotheistic transcendence.
Kemal Demir, Salih Özenici
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Context shift, word drift: the meaning transference of the word prèet in Thai Society

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This research investigates the semantic change and conceptual metaphor of the Thai word prèet (/เปรต/), which originates from the Pali-Sanskrit term meaning “departed.” The primary objective is to explore how the term’s meaning has shifted in ...
Korrakot Kumhaeng, Thatdao Rakmak
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