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Book as a Metaphoric Perception in Last Class of the Primary and Secondary Students

Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 2014
The aim of this study is analysing the metaphors developed in regard to the book concepts of 4th and 8th grades of primary and secondary schools students. In this study, phenomenology model, one of the qualitative research methods was used.In this study,
Mustafa Bektaş, Alpaslan Okur, Buket Karadağ   +2 more
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Metaphors of Economic and Financial Crisis: Identified, Interpreted and Explained

Respectus Philologicus, 2012
The aim of this study is to analyze how the economic and financial crisis in Lithuania is metaphorically conceptualized by three sociopolitical groups, i.e., the leading political party (the Conservatives), the Opposition and the media, with a primary ...
Jurga Cibulskienė
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Metaphor as a cognitive accelerator: hermeneutic analysis of emotional impact in the health resort discourse of the Caucasian Mineral Waters [PDF]

Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики
This article investigates the interpretive potential and expressive characteristics of metaphors within the advertising discourse of sanatoriums in the Caucasian Mineral Waters (CMW) region.
Tatyana A. Shiryaeva, Vladislava V. Sarma   +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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Metaphors among titles of medical publications: an observational study [PDF]

Ibérica, 2007
In this study, we attempted to determine the frequency and types of metaphors in a corpus of titles from a single medical journal collected over one year. The frequency of metaphor tokens (4.6%) was highest among editorials and other opinion articles and
Philippa Mungra
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Rethinking phrasal verb acquisition: Conceptual metaphor instruction versus retrieval practice

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
Before the introduction of conceptual metaphors, traditional rote memorization tasks were the primary methods for teaching English phrasal verbs (PVs). Verb and particle combinations in idiomatic PVs were considered arbitrary, leaving learners with few ...
Sam Haugh, Osamu Takeuchi
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The Aesthetics of Conceptual Metaphor in Nahj al-Balagha’s Khutbat al-Qasi’ah According to the Lakoff and Johnson Theory [In Persian] [PDF]

زبان کاوی کاربردی
Nahj al-Balagha, as a religious work with a pronounced literary approach, conveys profound religious and ethical concepts through diverse conceptual metaphors, articulated in eloquent and comprehensible language to facilitate the mapping of abstract ...
Ahmad Arefi, Reza Karimpour Kasin
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Conceptual metaphors of ‘death’ in Paul Kalanithi’s memoir ‘When Breath Becomes Air’

Language and Health
This study investigates the use of metaphor to construct the meaning of ‘death’ in Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, When Breath Becomes Air. Utilizing the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and a mixed-methods approach, this study has the following ...
Ghaleb Rabab’ah, Sharif Alghazo, Omar Bani Mofarrej, Sanaa Benmessaoud   +3 more
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INVESTIGATING THE UNIVERSALITY OF PRIMARY METAPHORS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM BUDDHISM

Linguagem em (Dis)curso, 2007
Abstract In this paper, I conduct a conceptual metaphor analysis of the “Wheel of Life”, a pictorial representation of Buddhist philosophical concepts. Abstract concepts that define our everyday realities (e.g. states, causation) are claimed by some to be metaphorically structured, and reducible to a universal set of primary metaphors (LAKOFF; JOHNSON,
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Using metaphor analysis to understand personal and familial experiences with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that causes changes in behavior, personality, and language. As researchers better understand the genetic components of FTD, the number of people pursuing genetic testing, either ...
Makenna May, Ying Zhang, Laynie Dratch, William M.P. Klein, Weiyi Mu, Megan T. Cho, Jill Owczarzak   +6 more
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