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What empirical work can tell us about Primary Metaphors

Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2014
La distinción entre Metáforas Complejas y Primarias (Grady, 1997; Lakoff & Johnson 1999) ha adquirido una gran relevancia en los últimos estadios de la Teoría Conceptual de la Metáfora (TCM).
Javier Valenzuela
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Stories and metaphors in the sensemaking of multiple primary health care organizational identities [PDF]

BMC Family Practice, 2014
The Quebec primary health care delivery system has experienced numerous reforms over the last 15 years. In this study, we sought to examine how managers and primary care providers made sense of the creation of successive new primary care organizational forms.We conducted a longitudinal qualitative case study in a primary care practice group located in ...
Rodríguez, Charo, Bélanger, Emmanuelle
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Meaningfulness of Religious Language in the Light of Conceptual Metaphorical Use of Image Schema: A Cognitive Semantic Approach [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2013
According to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. This article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and ...
Javad Taheri, Mahshid Alvandi
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Secondary Students’ Metaphors for Learning English

Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Language, 2022
The aim of this study is to find out the perceptions of secondary students about learning the English language through metaphor analysis. The research was carried out with 432 students studying in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades of 6 primary schools in ...
Ahmet Özcan
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Primary School Teachers' Metaphors on Grammar [PDF]

International Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
SOYUÇOK, MEHMET, SADİOĞLU, ÖMÜR, YALÇINTAŞ, ESRA   +2 more
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Invective Metaphors in the Bulgarian Language. An Attempt at a General Characteristic

Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie
Invective metaphors constitute a substantial portion of the metaphorical landscape within the Bulgarian language, and likely in other languages as well. This article endeavors to explore Bulgarian invective metaphors from various perspectives, including ...
Dilyana Dencheva
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IRONIC METAPHORS IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2018
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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A guide, cornerstone, and appetizer: An elicited metaphor analysis of Chinese university students' perceptions of English language textbooks.

PLoS ONE
Existing research on EFL learners' attitudes towards English language textbooks primarily investigates metaphors at the level of mental spaces, limiting insights into embodied cognition and experience.
Molly Xie Pan, Wei Lin
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Consequences of Metaphor Frames for Education: From Beliefs to Facts Through Language

Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives
This paper investigates the inferences stemming from two opposing metaphorical portraits of current educational methods (i.e., knowledge-transfer vs.
Lorena Pérez-Hernández, Paula Pérez-Sobrino   +1 more
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Advertising slogans about education in the light of the cognitive metaphor

Проглас, 2021
The article examines slogans about advertising education and educational products from the perspective of the cognitive theory of metaphor by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
Iva Peneva
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