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An Ironic Fist in a Velvet Glove: Creative Mis-Representation in the Construction of Ironic Similes
Minds and Machines, 2010Irony is an effective but challenging mode of communication that allows a speaker to express viewpoints rich in sentiment with concision, sharpness and humour. Creative irony is especially common in online documents that express subjective and deeply-felt opinions, and thus represents a significant obstacle to the accurate analysis of sentiment in web ...
Yanfen Hao, Tony Veale
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Psychological Reports, 2006
The Visual Similes Test II was designed to measure the construct of arousal. This study investigated its factor structure with scores from a sample of 154 African-American elementary school children (7 to 10 years). The initial factor structure was examined using principal axis factor analysis with the promax rotation. Confirmatory factor analysis was
Thomas Oliver, Williams, Ronald C, Eaves
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The Visual Similes Test II was designed to measure the construct of arousal. This study investigated its factor structure with scores from a sample of 154 African-American elementary school children (7 to 10 years). The initial factor structure was examined using principal axis factor analysis with the promax rotation. Confirmatory factor analysis was
Thomas Oliver, Williams, Ronald C, Eaves
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On the similative uses of esprit and dukh in French and Russian
Lingvisticæ investigationesThis paper examines the similative uses of the French esprit and the Russian dukh within the constructivist framework of the Culiolian school.
Elena Vladimirska, Jeļena Gridina
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Equative and similative constructions in two Walser German linguistic islands of North-Western Italy
Lingvisticæ investigationesEquative and similative constructions have never been investigated in the Germanic varieties spoken in small linguistic islands of the northwestern Italian Alps.
Livio Gaeta
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International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Metaphors improve communication between children and adults, which can be challenging due to differences in experiences. Cross-sensory metaphors convey qualities associated with one sense using terms from another, e.g.
Tegan Roberts-Morgan +7 more
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Metaphors improve communication between children and adults, which can be challenging due to differences in experiences. Cross-sensory metaphors convey qualities associated with one sense using terms from another, e.g.
Tegan Roberts-Morgan +7 more
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Constructions équatives, similatives, exclamatives et interprétations scalaires
2010Etude des lectures scalaires dans les constructions équatives, similatives et exclamatives en (aus)si (que) et en comme.
Hadermann, Pascale +2 more
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Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change
This study explores rhetorical construction and its effective role in shaping a vibrant and dynamic advertising image that transforms abstract meanings into tangible sensory representations, thereby increasing appeal and impact on the recipient ...
Rahim Jawid Mohammed +1 more
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This study explores rhetorical construction and its effective role in shaping a vibrant and dynamic advertising image that transforms abstract meanings into tangible sensory representations, thereby increasing appeal and impact on the recipient ...
Rahim Jawid Mohammed +1 more
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Equative and Similative Constructions in Naxi
Journal Asiatique, 2023MU, Yanjuan, LÜ, Shanshan
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Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2000
People in all cultures perceive the world through culturally shared models transmitted largely by language. The study presented here represents an attempt at the construction of two different folk models implementing the HUMAN IS AN ANIMAL metaphor in corpora of similes from two languages, Czech and English.
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People in all cultures perceive the world through culturally shared models transmitted largely by language. The study presented here represents an attempt at the construction of two different folk models implementing the HUMAN IS AN ANIMAL metaphor in corpora of similes from two languages, Czech and English.
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Folia linguistica
The continuous simile construction “ru A si B” is a distinctive phenomenon in Chinese that has not been previously studied. This article provides a detailed analysis of the formation of its form-meaning pairing from the perspective of Conceptual ...
Yong Chen, Zihan Yu, Xinxin Xu
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The continuous simile construction “ru A si B” is a distinctive phenomenon in Chinese that has not been previously studied. This article provides a detailed analysis of the formation of its form-meaning pairing from the perspective of Conceptual ...
Yong Chen, Zihan Yu, Xinxin Xu
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