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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"metaphor theory"”.
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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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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
… last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized in the mind. This leads to a clearer understanding of the relationships …
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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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Portraying Anxiety Disorders in Picturebooks: An Exploration into Using Picturebooks as an Interface Between Therapists and Young Adults (age 18–34)
… analysed. In contrast, theories of visual metaphor have been utilised in researching the embodiment of illness in comics and graphic novels (Miers, 2017; El Refaie, 2019). For instance, graphic novels and comics about depression have been analysed to explore the effectiveness of visualising …
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Emerging Adults In College: Assessing Expectations And Perceptions
… role of college in their lives. Application of metaphor theory reveals that students view college as either a commodity to be exchanged for a desired future outcome, or as one of a sequence of steps leading to their future. Students in this study were also not aware of having formed an …
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Towards images of supply chains in a sustainable world: a conceptual exploration of metaphor for sustainable supply chain theory development
… and reflective conceptual investigation into metaphor in the context of sustainable supply chain theory development. The sustainable supply chain field is at a turning point in its development as recent work has cast a critical eye over the field’s ability to make meaningful contributions to …
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Evolution Esotericized: Conceptual Blending and the Emergence of Secular, Therapeutic Salvation
… 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), to show …
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Metaphoric perspective theory: Language to action for the self, individuals, communities, and culture
<p>Metaphoric and tropic language have been a hallmark of human communication throughout the ages. From ancient examples and first attempts at scholarly understanding to postmodern lexicons of metaphor theory in two-dozen disciplines, the understanding of this lingual phenomenon has evolved and …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
Metaphor is not just a mere decorative device, but must be regarded as a central process in language and cognition. This dissertation explores the possibility to employ Max Black's interactional theory of metaphor and cognitive metaphor theory to study metaphor in film language. This point of view …
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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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Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute
… This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in …
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Krizės konceptas lietuvių ir vokiečių kalbose /
… research method is the analysis of conceptual metaphors based on the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. Different research provisions of linguistic traditional concepts are combined and customary CMT toolset is supplemented with the newer Deliberate Metaphor Theory. The latter method helps to …
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The Crisis Concept in Lithuanian and German. Summary of Doctoral Dissertation /
… research method is the analysis of conceptual metaphors based on the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. Different research provisions of linguistic traditional concepts are combined and customary CMT toolset is supplemented with the newer Deliberate Metaphor Theory. The latter method helps to …
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Conceptual Metaphors for Eating Disorders on Instagram
… 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, BODY AS AN …
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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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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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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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Metaphors and gestures in music teaching: an examination of junior high schools in Taiwan
In cognitive metaphor theory, metaphor is a conceptual and experiential process that structures our world. This study, taking an applied linguistic' view on CMT, examines how metaphor is manifested in speech and via gestures by music teachers in classrooms where Mandarin Chinese is the main …
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Conceptual Metaphor, Human-Computer Interaction And Music: Applying Conceptual Metaphor To The Design And Analysis Of Music Interactions
… the use of domain-specific conceptual metaphors to address the challenge of presenting complex abstractions, using tonal harmony as an extended case study. This thesis presents a methodology for applying domain-specific conceptual metaphors to interactions designs for music. This domain …
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
… 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 emotion …
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