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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Conceptual metaphor theory"”.
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From Injury to Silence: Metaphors for Language in the Work of Herta Muller
… writing have led her to develop sophisticated metaphors that she uses to illuminate language and its functioning under such subjugation. With reference to her fiction and non-fiction, I demonstrate how she uses concrete ideas to understand linguistic phenomena. She evokes injury, destruction, …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… by combining a historical approach with conceptual metaphor theory. The dissertation first evaluates the esoteric appropriation historically as a type of religious response to Darwin. It works backwards from the twentieth-century counterculture (as identified by Theodore Roszak in 1975), …
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Perceptual foundations of abstract thought
… about abstract things, speakers often recruit metaphors from more concrete or perceptually rich domains. For example, English speakers often talk about time using spatial language (e.g., a long vacation; a short meeting). Cognitive linguists have argued such expressions reveal that people …
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Conceptual Metaphors for Eating Disorders on Instagram
… on eating disorder awareness and recovery. A Conceptual Metaphor Theory approach is used to identify metaphors for food, diet culture, body, eating disorders, recovery, and relapse. Examples of metaphors identified within the collected data include: FOOD AS MORALITY, DIET CULTURE AS A PERSON, …
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Metaphors and meaning in the editorials of the New Era newspaper, 2016: A linguistic exploration
Metaphors enrich a language and help people understand abstract or unfamiliar content. By linking abstract information to a concrete concept, it becomes easier for people to understand the information. This thesis is an investigation into the meaning of metaphors that appear in the editorials of …
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Translating conceptual metaphor in popular biomedical texts from English to Arabic
The current study explores the metaphorical conceptualisations of biomedical knowledge in online articles found in the English/American popular scientific magazine Scientific American and their translation in the Arabic Majallat Al Oloom. The study aims to reveal the translatability of metaphors …
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Metaphorical representation of feminism in media discourse /
The present paper focuses on the metaphorical representation of feminism in media discourse. The research addresses two primary research questions: What metaphors are found in the media for representations of feminism at the linguistic and conceptual levels? How do metaphors reflect feminism in the …
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Conceptual Metaphor, Human-Computer Interaction And Music: Applying Conceptual Metaphor To The Design And Analysis Of Music Interactions
… in domains where users lack effective means to conceptualise and articulate relevant abstractions. In this thesis, we investigate the use of domain-specific conceptual metaphors to address the challenge of presenting complex abstractions, using tonal harmony as an extended case study. This …
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
… study employs a cognitive linguistics approach, conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) to investigate bilingual conceptual representation. The study analyses the metaphorical and metonymic expressions commonly used among Akan-English bilinguals in Ghana to talk about different aspects of two basic …
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Nxopaxopo wa swivuriso swa Xitsonga swo vulavula hi swiharhi hi ku kongomisa eka ndlela leyi swi paluxaka hayona mahanyelo ni mavonelo ya vutomi ya Xitsonga
… M (1980) ya thiyori ya mianakanyo ya vugego (Conceptual Metaphor Theory) Eka thiyori leyi ku vuriwa leswaku mhakankulu leyi lawulaka matirhelo ya swivulwana swa vugegovutlhokovetseri a hi ririmi, kambe i mianakanyo. Thiyori leyi yi tirhisa mpananiso (cross domain mappings), laha mhaka ya nkoka …
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The Language of Pain: New Understandings
… form of assessment and communication is that of metaphor, which may be a powerful tool for people with chronic pain. Previous research has shown that metaphors are widely used by those with chronic pain and may have therapeutic value in this population. However, there is limited research in the …
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"Diese Sprachen, die sind Ich": Mehrsprachigkeit im Spannungsfeld von Sprachbiografien und Schreiben ["Queste lingue...sono me": Plurilinguismo all'intersezione tra biografie linguistiche e scrittura]
… e attraverso l’approccio alla metafora della Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson 1980), nonché dell’analisi delle metafore proposta da Harald Weinrich (Weinrich 1966); 2) un corpus testuale di romanzi composti dalle stesse autrici intervistate, di cui si osservano forme e funzioni …
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Communicating Metaphors in Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney
‘Relevance theory’ is a linguistic theory offering an alternative to the conventional ‘code model’ of communication, by suggesting that inference, rather than coding and decoding, is the primary driving force motivating interpretation. In this thesis, I consider the implications for literary …
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An Examination of the Relationship between High School Mathematics Teachers' Dispositions and Their Metaphors for Teaching
… clearly defined. Likewise, scholarly work in metaphor research provided an understanding of how teachers conceptualize their most fundamental views and beliefs about aspects of teaching. This mixed methods study examined the relationship between the dispositions and the teaching metaphors of …
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„Wild Democracy” – The figurative conceptualization of the Parliament in Hungarian editorial cartoons (1989 – 2019)
… cartoons are rich in figurative devices (e.g., conceptual metaphor) (i.a. El Refaie, 2009) and they serve as a suitable corpus for the investigation of the figurative meaning of the Parliament. In the case of a conceptual metaphor, for instance, the Parliament (considered as a target domain) is …
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It’s nothing personal? - A linguistic account of the personalization of American political communication
… pronominal references in US politics. How can we conceptualize the relative distance of these groups to politicians? The experiential view claims that deixis can be interpreted relying on the CENTER-PERIPHERY image schema (Marmaridou, 2000). The CENTER-PERIPHERY image schema is a cognitive …
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Righteous Remixes, Sacred Mashups: Rethinking Authority, Authenticity, and Originality in the Study of Religion
… Utilizing an approach that centers on the art of metaphor, and employing a model for specifically studying cultural constructs via remix theory that I term Remix+/-, I explore the ways that a few influential leaders, including Stephen Batchelor, Osamu Tezuka, and Jon Kabat-Zinn, express and …
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Metaphors and Norms - Understanding Copyright Law in a Digital Society
… norms and the underlying conceptions in their metaphorical representation. These three steps assist in answering the overarching question: "How do legal and social norms relate to each other in terms of the conceptions from which they emanate or by which they are constructed, and what is the …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …