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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"George Lakoff"”.
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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… Langacker on aspects of construction grammar; George Lakoff, Ronald Langackerand Leonard Talmy on grammatical theory and lexical categories; George Lakoff, MarkJohnson and others on conceptual metaphor; and Gilles Fauconnier and others onconceptual blending. The study attempts not just to …
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Les metàfores de la salut mental : Estudi sobre el discurs de persones que pateixen trastorns mentals
… determinada de conceptualitzar la realitat. George Lakoff i Mark Johnson foren els primers de posar de manifest aquest fet a "Metaphors we live by" (1980). En aquest treball, ens centrarem en l'àmbit de la salut mental. En particular, prendrem en consideració les persones que pateixen …
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By Tweet and By Speech: An Examination of Values in Donald Trump's Metaphor
… public reaction. In these categories, I apply George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s philosophy of language to Trump’s remarks, and I reveal the values expressed in Trump’s metaphors. After this, and I develop an appeal and course of action that American citizens who are opposed to Trump’s presidency …
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Metaphor and mathematics
… from the linguistic to the conceptual - as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and many other contemporary metaphor scholars do - overcomes problems plaguing traditional theories and promisingly advances our understanding of both metaphor and of concepts. It is argued that conceptual metaphor plays …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
… word veral staatgemaak op die metafoorteorie van George Lakoff (1993), Mark Johnson (1987), Lakoff en Johnson (1980, 1999), Zoltan Kövecses (1997, 2010) en Joseph Grady. Verder word beginsels uit die kritiese diskoersanalise betrek, na aanleiding van Michel Foucault (2002), Jonathan …
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On the classification of business strategy
… inter alia), semiotics (e.g. Umberto Eco, George Lakoff) and cognitive science (especially, Susan Gelman and Douglas Medin) to produce a new, bespoke theoretical framework for the subsequent case studies of these business strategy classification schemes. It recognises the artifactual nature …
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Heróis, vilões, vítimas e emoções no discurso jornalístico em relação ao terrorismo : de Nova Iorque a Madrid e Londres : uma abordagem cognitiva
… a abordagem seguida a da Linguística Cognitiva – Lakoff e Johnson (1980), Lakoff (1987), Zoltán Kövecses (1986, 1990, 1991, 1998, 2000, 2003[2000]) Kövecses e George Lakoff (1987), Batoréo (2000, 2003a , 2004c), Abrantes (1999, 2001a, 2001b, 2002) e Silva (1997, 1999, 2003) – e os instrumentos …
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Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate
… Barbara King in biological anthropology, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in empirical linguistics and Annette Karmiloff-Smith in developmental psychology. These researchers are also involved in cognitive science investigations that bear on evolutionary psychology's key claims about the mind …
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Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
… cognitive processes developed by, in particular, George Lakoff and Lawrence Barsalou, with philosophical accounts of depictive seeing as a self-conscious imaginative use of one’s own perception, amongst which the work of Kendall Walton is highlighted. The formal study of comics is replete with …
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Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?
… expresses cognitive processes. Although linguist George Lakoff denies the existence of a connection between metaphors, myths, and archetypes, Chapter 3 illustrates the possibility of a relationship among these phenomena. By synthesizing theoretical approaches, Chapter 3 initiates the development …
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Ecology and environmental art in public place: talking tree: won't you take a minute and listen to the plight of nature?
… Schön's idea of a generative metaphor, and George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's 'empathic projection'. These metaphorical conceptions can be relied upon to talk about trees without falling into anthropomorphising nature. The research was also informed by positions in the aesthetics of art. First …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… the theories of conceptual metaphor developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson from 1980 onwards and subsequently elaborated in respect of emotion metaphors by Zóltan Kövecses. In the theories of Kövecses, emotions are perceived as forces. This dissertation tests the applicability of these …
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Ambient advertising : an investigation into the effect that the Visual Impact, Environmental Impact and Pedestrian Interpretation has on creating the Ambient Advertising message
… Gunther Kress (1996), Theo van Leeuwen (1996), George Lakoff (1980) and Max Black (1972). Advertising is constructed to attract attention and be persuasive, I have included the theories of persuasion(advertising) by Judith Williamson (1978), Katherine Told Frith (1997), Guy Cook (1994) and Paul …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
In this dissertation, I focus on the work of five contemporary experimental poets - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Hannah Weiner, and Leslie Scalapino - in order to demonstrate various aspects of a philosophical dynamic at work in their poetry. The critical debates surrounding …