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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"figurative language"”.
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Allusions of grandeur : figurative language use in rap lyrics
… reasons not the least of which is the focus on language use, a tack that is often taken for granted in studies of hip-hop culture. It is also important for the culture because the so-named “Hip-hop Nation” is a community constituted by communicative action and is now a global phenomenon. …
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Deconstruction's Place in Western Thought: Philosophic and Figurative Language
… on other texts, showing the ways in which the language of those texts turns against itself, usually by playing on the contradictory relationship between the literal and figurative levels of the text. The history of the uneasy relationship between the literal and figurative levels of Western …
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CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
… of familiar proverbs following either a figurative discourse context or one of two literal contexts. Materials from Ferretti, Schwint and Katz (2007) were adapted for a cloze task. Data were collected for 42 proverbs from 240 participants. Booklets presented a series of context paragraphs …
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An analysis of figurative language and insight in two supervision sessions
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 W54
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Comprehension and recall of figurative language by nonnative speakers of English
… attempted to extend some of the findings in figurative language research over the past 10-15 years to a population not often tested in this area before, nonnative speakers of English. Most metaphor researchers in psycholinguistics have come to believe that nonliteral language is a vital …
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The comprehension of figurative language : electrophysiological evidence on the processing of irony
Diese Dissertation untersucht das Verstehen figurativer Sprache, im Besonderen die zeitliche Verarbeitung von verbaler Ironie. In sechs Experimenten wurde mittels ereignis-korrelierter Potentiale (EKP) die Gehirnaktivität beim Verstehen ironischer Äußerungen im Vergleich zu entsprechenden …
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The Comprehension of Some Aspects of Figurative Language by Deaf and Hearing Subjects
… investigate the comprehension of some aspects of figurative language by deaf subjects and to compare their performances with those of hearing subjects. Three groups of deaf children and one group of hearing children were tested. Each group contained 25 children. Each hearing subject studied had an …
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The Role Of Imagery And Abstraction In Proverb Comprehension: A Dual-coding Analysis Of Figurative Language
… and Coste, 1980) that a dual coding approach to language representation cannot explain interpretation of figurative language. That claim was based on earlier findings that were interpreted as showing that memory representations of the figurative meanings of proverbs are abstract and …
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"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>.
… paper is to investigate the use of Hurston’s figurative language in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Metaphors, symbolism, and personification have always been present in the African American language. Hurston uses the richness of figurative language to depict the African American …
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The use of figurative language in the 21st century american literature: the case of the novel “the lucky one” by nicholas sparks /
This research examines the figurative language employed in Nicholas Sparks‘ novel “The Lucky One” (2008), focusing on lexical stylistic devices and their role in shaping the narrative. Figurative language extends beyond literal meanings, evoking emotions and associations in readers through various …
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The Effects of The Extent to Which Metaphors (Figurative Language) Appear in Prose on The Reading Comprehension of Selected Groups of Fifth and Eighth Grade Elementary School Students
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Understanding Empathy in Online Support Forums
… insight into how empathy is conveyed through language. As a result, the linguistic mechanisms that shape empathetic communication, such as the use of figurative language, remain largely underexplored. This dissertation addresses this gap by advancing the modeling and interpretation of empathy …
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An Exploration of Generative AI in Engineering Education and Research
… thematic analysis with the aid of large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP) tools, detecting figurative language in faculty discourse about assessment, and engineering faculty members' thinking on reshaping assessment practices due to the increased availability of …
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Neuronale Kooperationsprozesse während der Verarbeitung figurativer Sprache : eine EEG-Kohärenzanalyse
We investigated the reception of German spoken language using the analysis of EEG coherence. The study focusses on processing different types of sentences such as literal and figurative ones: literal: Sie hilft dem Schauspieler auf die Bühne. (She helps the actor onto the stage.) figurative …
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PSALM 63: A STUDY OF ITS IMAGERY AND THEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PSALTER
… psalmist visualises by the extensive usage of figurative language. The study undertakes an analysis of the difficult and complex metaphors and images contained in the poetical language of Psalm 63. Part One addresses issues about the nature of poetry, its definition, elements, and the role …
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The Use of Figurative Devices in Aiding Comprehension for Speakers of Black English
… been devoted to explanations which are rooted in language behavior. The topic of "language behavior" encompasses a wide arena but one aspect hitherto not examined by researchers, but which may be the focus of interesting differences in the language of black and white children, is the use of …
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Acquisition of metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
… been conducted on the acquisition of certain figurative expressions in a second language, predominantly idioms; however, a combination of the two perspectives and a joint analysis on the acquisition of figurative language has yet to be accomplished. This study presents a first attempt of such …
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Inscrutable Islands: Narrative Difficulty and the Rhetoric of Creolization in Twentieth-Century Caribbean Novels
… perception between and among different cultures, language speakers, races, and classes of people. This perception occurs at the meeting point of social differences, and the theorists employ a rhetoric of metaphor and figurative language to describe it as obscured or otherwise inhibited. …
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