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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"conceptual metaphor"”.
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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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Conceptual Metaphor in the Health Care Culture
The conceptual metaphor has meaning only when understood within the cultural framework which gives rise to the conceptualization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction of cognition (conceptual metaphor) and culture as manifest during intercultural communication in …
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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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„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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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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"Live as Worthy Citizens": The πολιτεύομαι Metaphor in Philippians
… argues that πολιτεύομαι functions as a dominant conceptual metaphor in Paul’s letter to the Philippians, and therefore, this metaphor frames and structures Paul’s ethical discourse. When Paul employs this powerful metaphor to describe the Christian life, he brings to the foreground a conceptual …
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Toward a Becoming Encounter: Arts-Based Research, Representation and Animal-Human Relations
… and Buber’s I-Thou Encounters to create a conceptual metaphor that I call A Becoming Encounter. Through an arts-based methodology, the production and examination of several art objects (my own and others), and the ways in which they relate to the lived experience of animals, (using Lefebvre …
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Semantik der Verben der Nahrungsaufnahme im Deutschen /
… the componential analysis and the theory of conceptual metaphor. 91examples of verbs' nutrition and 82 metaphorical sayings have been selected and grouped into 2 groups, i.e. TO EAT and TO DRINK. The group TO EAT is comprised of 14 semantic subgroups and the group TO DERINK - 8 subgroups. …
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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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When metaphors speak : a design for a theater in Boston
… and of ways that form may express both a conceptual metaphor for a building type and heighten the experience of that type for its participants. The vehicle for this exploration is the design of a dramatic theater in Boston. This thesis proposes as an idea for theater that the dramatic …
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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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Metaphor and mathematics
Traditionally, mathematics and metaphor have been thought of as disparate: the former rigorous, objective, universal, eternal, and fundamental; the latter imprecise, derivative, nearly - if not patently - false, and therefore of merely aesthetic value, at best. A growing amount of contemporary …
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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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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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A construction grammar approach to spatial prepositions in modern standard Arabic
… George Lakoff, MarkJohnson and others on conceptual metaphor; and Gilles Fauconnier and others onconceptual blending. The study attempts not just to address the limitations of formalistapproaches, but also to develop a functionalist approach to the characterisation of MSAspatial …
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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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Hunting Down Animal Verbs
… verbal zoosemy (e.g. Kiełtyka, 2016), i.e. metaphorical construal of human actions by means of linguistic material from the domain of animals. The approach taken in this study is not to simply report on the objective changes in the morphology, syntactic distribution and meaning of such …
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A epidemia de HIV/AIDS no Brasil: um estudo semântico cognitivo sócio-histórico-cultural da conceptualização da morte no século XX.
This thesis aimed to study death conceptualizations in texts from literary and health Fields published in context of Brazil HIV/AIDS epidemic, exploring how cognitive, social, historical, and cultural aspects are bounded to the signification process. The ideas and discussions were based on the …
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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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