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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 ...
Tavakoli, Morteza
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Subjective realization in sonnets by metaphors
Aligned with studies of metaphor in discourse, this paper looks at the role played by metaphors in achieving communicative purposes of sonnets. Taking the notion of genre as our primary analytical basis, we investigate how novel metaphors and, especially,
Dalby Dienstbach
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Primary Metaphors Are Both Cultural and Embodied [PDF]
Cognitive linguists have argued that metaphors are anchored in our embodied experiences. Cultural, linguistic and gestural representations are often seen as reflections of underlying conceptual mappings. On the basis of three different metaphors, more is
Bodo Winter, Teenie Matlock
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IRONIC METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
The article is aimed at revealing the current trends in the usage of ironic metaphors in Russian, British and American political discourse. Given the diversity of political genres, which makes it difficult to classify them, the article draws on the ...
Anna A Gornostaeva
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Emotional Concept of Abneigung: Core Features and Lexical Representations
The present research featured a complex description of non-verbal and verbal representations of the emotional concept of Abneigung (antipathy ) in the German linguistic worldview.
Izabella V. Korogodina
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Metaphor and embodied cognition Metáfora e cognição corpórea
The present paper briefly describes recent advances in cognitive science on the embodied nature of human cognition with the aim to better situating contemporary work on embodied metaphor in language and thought.
Raymond W. Gibbs Jr +1 more
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Este trabalho apresenta um estudo interlingüístico e evolutivo da compreensão de oito metáforas primárias sob a perspectiva da Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual. Os dados foram obtidos através de entrevistas com crianças de 3 a 10 anos de idade, monolíngües,
Maity Siqueira, Regina Ritter Lamprecht
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Eliciting metaphors from narratives of collaboration experiences with teachers in writing a textbook
Collaboration of teacher educators with school teachers in developing lesson materials is paramount for professional development. A burgeoning of research on educator-teacher collaboration in writing a textbook, for instance, has existed; however, there ...
Jarjani Usman, Mawardi Mawardi
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Seventh graders’ perceptions of physical education courses
This study aims at determining eighth graders’ views and thoughts of physical education courses in primary education schools through metaphors. The study group was composed of 58 students attending Altınşehir Primary Education school located in Adıyaman ...
Mustafa Koc, İbrahim Sahın
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Subescenas y escenas primarias que conforman algunas metáforas del lenguaje político periodístico
The use of metaphor in political discourse has awoken great interest in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. Most authors have based their analyses on the typology based on the nature of the source domain proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) and Lakoff ...
María Angeles Moreno Lara
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