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Emotion metaphors in Korean
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Spatial Metaphors in Arnold Bennett
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Metaphors in nurse-physician communication
This study addresses the weaknesses in the nurse-physician communication literature by preserving the cultural phenomena and coupling this context with empirical validation. Its purpose is to achieve a better understanding, through description and explanation, of the communication patterns between …
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Virtual workplaces : when metaphors breakdown
… are interpreted and experienced through metaphors that describe a space of potential for work occurrences. Through the lens of metaphors, this research focuses on breakdowns between collaborative work and the environment in which work occurs. If what we understand and predict is based on …
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Multimodal metaphors in educational animated videos /
… seem more familiar and engaging to the learner. Metaphors have been used in education even in writings of philosophical authors, such as Aristotle, Epicurus, and Lucretius, among others. After researching the topic, it seems that there have been studies conducted on metaphors in education, …
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Javanese Metaphors in Discourse Analysis (Indonesia)
… exploring the possibility of separating Javanese metaphors into universal and language-specific, proposing a model of understanding metaphors, and determining the domain within which metaphors are interpreted. A separation of Javanese metaphors into universal and language-specific is necessary to …
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PoEM : a parser of emotion metaphors
Although metaphor is generally recognized as an integral component of everyday language, very few computational systems capable of understanding metaphoric utterances exist today. This thesis describes one approach to the problem and presents PoEM, a prototype system which recognizes and interprets …
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Conceptual Metaphors for Eating Disorders on Instagram
… 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, BODY AS AN ENEMY, EATING DISORDER AS A PERSON, RECOVERY …
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Communicating Metaphors in Shakespeare, Dickinson and Heaney
… any straightforward sense of what textual metaphors ‘mean’. Chapter Three explores the striking prominence of the term ‘inference’, fundamental to the relevance theory account of communication, in Dickinson’s poetry. Whilst Dickinson’s ‘definitional’, ‘X is Y’ metaphors appear to facilitate …
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Metaphors in translation : an investigation of a sample of Quran metaphors with reference to three English versions of the Quran
… to investigate the challenges of translating metaphors of the Quran. It examines English speakers' understanding of a number of Quran metaphors which are selected from three well known English versions of the Quran translations. In addition, the study highlights the root causes which may be …
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Tensions and Metaphors in Higher Education Fundraising Profession
… analysis. Findings revealed the types of metaphors used by higher education fundraisers and if and how they shaped their perceptions of the profession. Findings also showed what contradictions, paradoxes, and ironies are found in the field and if and how they shaped perceptions of the …
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Metaphors for Listening in Johann Sebastian Bach's Germany
… by believers. This thesis examines three metaphors that circulated in devotional writings of early modern Lutheran Germany to reconstruct and reimagine congregational listening experiences of a Bach cantata. I employ historical metaphor as a framework through which listeners felt music to …
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Midwife and Mother: Maternal Metaphors in the Composition Classroom
This study examines the maternal metaphors of midwife and mother used to describe instructors and teaching practices in the composition classroom. In the introduction the author describes her interest in the topic based on her own experiences as a mother and as a beginning composition instructor. …
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Yusef Komunyakaa: Questioning traditional metaphors of light and darkness
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Hotel resort tari topeng di Batu: Tema combined metaphors
INDONESIA: Letak geografis kota Batu merupakan potensi yang membawa keuntungan pada bidang pariwisata khususnya bidang perhotelan. Hadirnya Hotel Resort di Batu ini didukung oleh potensi yang dimiliki Kota Batu yaitu udara yang sejuk dan dingin dan terkenal dengan potensi alamnya sebagai kota …
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Syntactic Influences on Processing of Metaphors and Literal Equivalents
The research reported in this thesis was supported by the University of Kansas General Research Fund. My tenure at KU has been, among other things, laborious and tedious, and I have struggled with anxiety, stress, and a bevy of people who have not made my visit here extremely pleasant, but all in …
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