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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"metaphor studies"”.
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Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
… of drawn narratives are structured by metaphorical conceptualisation. The argument develops from the observation that metaphor theory does not account for the perceptual character of depiction. I begin by focusing on an overlooked distinction between "pictures that are metaphors" and …
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Seeing the World through Tearful Eyes: Similes in Job’s Laments
… laments throughout chapters 3–31. Most previous metaphor studies within the discipline of HB/OT, and of the book of Job in particular, have primarily focused on key metaphors or have treated similes as a subset of metaphors. My observation of the distinct usage of similes in Job’s laments raises …
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Metaphors, Myths, and Archetypes: Equal Paradigmatic Functions in Human Cognition?
The overview of contributions to metaphor theory in Chapters 1 and 2, examined in reference to recent scholarship, suggests that the current theory of metaphor derives from long-standing traditions that regard metaphor as a crucial process of cognition. This overview calls to attention the …