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Studying the Different Forms of Metaphor in the Sayings of our Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) [PDF]

open access: yesدراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2012
Metaphor is one of the superior literary styles of Arabs and is a criterion for identifying and measuring their astuteness and skillfulness. Some of the beauty in speeches or sentences is related to metaphor.
Mohammad Ibrahim Khalifa Shushtari   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Embodied, Enacted, and Multimodal: Exploring Science Teachers’ Metaphors in Authentic Classroom Contexts

open access: yesScience Education, Volume 110, Issue 5, Page 1469-1496, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past decades, science education research has extensively examined the role of metaphors in teaching and learning science. However, much of the existing research has focused on verbal manifestations of metaphors, thereby overlooking aspects of metaphors that may occur in non‐verbal form. This study reconceptualises metaphors as dynamic
Magdalena Kersting   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Some important types of Simile in the Indian Film Poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
TASHBEEH (Simile) is one of the most important and common parts of ILM-E-BAYAN. A poet often uses the path of simile when he wants to praise something or somebody. Many types of similes (TASHBEEH) are used in Indian film’s Urdu songs.
Ahmed, Professor Dr. Shafiq   +1 more
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Expressive means of irony expression in Marcel Proust’s aphorisms

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2016
The relevance of the study is determined by the lack of work on the analysis of linguistic expressive means of aphorisms by Marcel Proust. The material of the research are aphoristic sayings of ironic character found in the novels of Proust “Jean ...
Shumakova Alla Petrovna
doaj   +1 more source

Extending the Boundaries of Paracrises: A Computational Perspective on Narrating Stalemates Through eWOM in Electing Mr. Speaker on X

open access: yesJournal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Social media play crucial dialogic and strategic roles during paracrisis. Responding to a prior call to extend agenda‐setting theory to study paracrises, this manuscript builds on the literature by moving beyond the dominant focus on for‐profit organisations in public relations and crisis studies into the political sphere.
Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour
wiley   +1 more source

Comprehension of Scalar Implicature in 3-7 Mono-Lingual Persian-Speaking Children [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān
Simile understanding requires two distinct pragmatic skills: understanding the intended similarity and deriving a scalar implicature (e.g., “Nina is like a rabbit” normally implies that “Nina is not a rabbit”).
Arezoo Khani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding excessive sleep in people with psychotic disorders

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 762-776, September 2026.
Abstract Background There has been increasing attention to sleep disturbances such as insomnia in psychosis, due to its impact on symptoms, well‐being, and recovery. However, excessive sleep and extended sleep duration are common in psychosis (partly linked to sedating antipsychotic medication) and have been relatively neglected, despite plausible ...
Kate Robbins   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Personifikasi dan simile dalam terjemahan kitab Durratun Nashihin karya Achmad Sunarto (tinjauan balaghah)

open access: yes, 2015
Kitab Durratun Nashihin ada empat aspek besar, yaitu gaya bahasa langsung tidaknya makna yang meliputi gaya bahasa personifikasi dan gaya bahasa simile, diksi yang meliputi kata konkret dan kata abstrak, pencitraan yang meliputi rasa, kemudian semantik ...
Alden, Novi Aryanita
core  

Multimodal simile

open access: yes, 2017
This paper analyzes the “when” meme, a popular internet meme, which prototypically juxtaposes a when clause with an ostensibly unrelated image.
Adrian Lou
core   +1 more source

Like-simile and metaphor in cooperation: from expressing similarities to expressing contrasts

open access: yesLanguage and Semiotic Studies
Cognitive-oriented work on simile has developed out of attempts to pinpoint features distinguishing simile and metaphor. This development has had such consequences as 1) focusing on simile as an analogy-based process and 2) giving very little attention ...
Reda Ghsoon
doaj   +1 more source

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