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LIKE IN SIMILES – A RELEVANCE-THEORETIC VIEW [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The paper examines the meaning of like as used in similes in the light of relevance theory. Similes, even though superficially indistinguishable from literal comparisons, are found to be closer to metaphors. Therefore, it is proposed that like in similes
Andersen   +64 more
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Combining Part-of-Speech Tags and Self-Attention Mechanism for Simile Recognition

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
Simile recognition is to find simile sentences and extract the tenor and vehicle from these sentences. Previous works illustrate that tenors and vehicles are typically noun phrases. A word may have different part-of-speech (POS) labels (e.g., adjectives,
Pengfei Zhang   +4 more
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The Trend of Transformation in Islamic Iconography of Iran; from Transcendental to assimilation Approach [PDF]

open access: yesنگره, 2016
:  Religious iconography in Islamic Iran is one of the most important Shiite arts. The history of this art in Iran signifies it`s transcendental approach to depict sacred characters pure and consider them far from worldliness.
Seyedeh Razieh Yasini
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The Main Characteristics of Stephen King’s Idiostyle

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018
The paper presents stylistic value of simile and metaphor as the major features of Stephen King's idiostyle. The linguistic analysis of some novels (1408, Carrie, The Shining, Dreamcatcher, Dead Zone) is aimed at discovering sematic and structural types ...
Svetlana S. Takhtarova   +1 more
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The Philosophical Significance of Wittgenstein’s Experiments on Rhythm, Cambridge 1912–13 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Wittgenstein’s experiments on rhythm, conducted in Charles Myers’s laboratory in Cambridge during the years 1912–13, are his earliest recorded engagement in thinking about music, not just appreciating it, and philosophizing by means of musical thinking ...
Guter, Eran
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‘Hapa ni wapi? (Where is this?)’: a linguistic and discursive examination of students-teacher dynamics in education

open access: yesCogent Education
This paper explores the relationship between teachers and learners, particularly within Mathematics education, examining how language and discourse influence relationship dynamics. It acknowledges historical educational hierarchies where teachers exerted
Okoa Simile
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The Most Important Element of Imagination and Creating Mental Imagery in the Poetry of Rudaki [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2016
Simile is one of the most widely discussed topics in eloquence, the emergence of which in early human speech has coincided with the creation of the man. To express complicated and vague concepts, early humans needed different figures of speech as well as
Seyedali Karamati
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Cognitive translation analysis of fiction simile

open access: yesКогниция, коммуникация, дискурс, 2021
This paper introduces a method of cognitive translation analysis of English-Ukrainian translation of fiction simile. Our analysis of Ukrainian and foreign research on fiction simile translation has revealed that such papers are mostly based on ...
Alla Martynyuk, Elvira Akhmedova
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Meaning and meaning extension of separation verbs in Kiswahili

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities
This study analyses the semantics of Kiswahili separation verbs, with the aim of exploring their categorisation, usage, and patterns of meaning extension.
Okoa Simile, Devet Goodness
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Linguistic Structure for Simile in Abdul- Kaher Al-Jerjani A Theoretical Study [PDF]

open access: yesدراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2013
This study provides a reading in simile from its linguistic structural point of view in Abdul- Kader Al-Jerjani, showing its linguistic elements when the "compose a special kind of writing", and form a specified linguistic rhythm, that leads it to ...
Bouthaina souliman
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