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Corela, 2023 The study of antonomasia, which is in fact a double trope since there are antonomasia of proper name and antonomasia of common name, could imply the existence of a system of the proper name based on positions and organized around a prototype, the ...
Nicolas Laurent
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American Humorous Discourse. Manipulation Strategy
Інтегровані комунікації, 2022 The conducted research shows that the communicative strategy of manipulation is widespread in the American humorous discourse. The communicative strategy of manipulation can be implemented through the tactic of ambiguity, the tactic of faulty logic, the
Oleg Kharchenko
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Negative representations of Byzantine princesses in Serbian medieval hagiographies [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2021 If we analyse all examples where Byzantine princesses were mentioned in Serbian hagiographies, we could reach certain conclusions. The performances of the Byzantine princesses in the above mentioned lives are not uniform and the descriptions of their ...
Krneta Mila M.
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The Interpretation of Metamorphosis as a Narrative Device in George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014 The following article is an attempt to study metamorphosis as a narrative device in Scottish fairy tale writer George MacDonald’s fairy tales. Due to a closer study of the theoretical background of metamorphosis and the analyses of the examples it ...
Diana Hayroyan
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“Big wind, he waiting there”: Vance Palmer’s Cyclones of Apocalypse and Their Power of Revelation
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2016 Prior to writing his 1947 novel, Cyclone, Queensland author Vance Palmer drafted out many of his ideas for the story in three earlier short stories: ‘Cyclone’(1932), ‘Big Wind,’ and ‘Tempest,’ both published in 1936. In these stories and the later novel,
Chrystopher Spicer
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, 2000 Trope ontology is exposed and confronted with the question where one trope ends and another begins. It is argued that tropes do not have determinate boundaries, it is arbitrary how tropes are carved up.
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Confluenze, 2012 The travelogue is infinite, as the metaphor is. Not only the language but the whole intellectual life rests on a set of transpositions, which can be described as a metaphor – as pioneered, Michel Leiris.
Raúl Antelo
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Trope Mental Causation: Still Not Qua Mental
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022 A popular solution to the causal exclusion problem in the non-reductive physicalist camp is the trope identity solution. But this solution is haunted by the “quausation problem” which charges that the trope only confers causal powers qua physical, not ...
Wenjun Zhang
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Four Semiotic Approaches to Musical Meaning: Markedness, Topics, Tropes, and Gesture
Muzikološki Zbornik, 2005 After a brief survey of music semiotic developments in the United States, I present four interrelated approaches based on my own work. Musical Meaning in Beethoven: Markedness, Correlation, and Interpretation (1994) presents a new approach to ...
Robert S. Hatten
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Вестник Северо-Кавказского федерального университета, 2022 This paper studies the structural types of comparisons and stylistic functions of comparisons, which are used in the portrait descriptions of heroes in short stories of A.P. Chehov.
Tatiana Penina
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