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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"metaphorical expressions"”.
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Acquisition of metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
… investigates the acquisition of conventional metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English. A conventional metaphorical expression, following the definition of cognitive semantics, refers to the use of a conventionalised non-literal meaning of a lexical item in a multi-word phrase. …
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A comparative analysis of metaphorical expressions used by rural and urban Ndebele speakers: the contribution of S'ncamtho
… explores language expansion and change through metaphorical expressions that originate with urban youth varieties. It focuses on the impact of S'ncamtho, an Ndebele-based urban youth variety of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe along the variables of rural/urban, sex, age and level of education. The thesis …
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A study of metaphors in Editorials online from "The New York Times" in 2013
… and explores the occurrence of Metaphors and metaphorical expressions in editorials online from The New York Times throughout the period July -December 2013. The definitions provided by Reddy (1979), Lakoff (1980), and Glucksberg & Mc Glone (1997) make up the Theoretical Framework for the …
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Krizės konceptas lietuvių ir vokiečių kalbose /
… hierarchical structure of the world; however, metaphorical expressions reflect differences in the features of the source domain. 2. The minimum of the crisis concept features reflected in the meanings of lexical names, generalize fixed crisis images in metaphorical expressions. 3. Conceptual …
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The Crisis Concept in Lithuanian and German. Summary of Doctoral Dissertation /
… hierarchical structure of the world; however, metaphorical expressions reflect differences in the features of the source domain. 2. The minimum of the crisis concept features reflected in the meanings of lexical names, generalize fixed crisis images in metaphorical expressions. 3. Conceptual …
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Metaphor and bilingual cognition : the case of Akan and English in Ghana
… 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 concepts (ANGER and FEAR) when they speak English. On the one hand, findings from psycholinguistic …
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A corpus-based study of some linguistic features of metaphor
… language. A number of researchers now claim that metaphorical transfer often connects semantic domains at the level of thought. This has implications for formal features of individual linguistic metaphors and for the lexical relations holding between them. The linguistic data used by metaphor …
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Πνεῦμα in the Septuagint
… denote “nothing” by evoking insubstantiality in metaphorical expressions. In chapter 5, observations on the polysemy and taxonomical relations of πνεῦμα are offered based on a survey of the broader uses of πνεῦμα. In the concluding chapter, the distinct connotations that arise in LXX texts using …
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An Inert State: Tracing a double-defiance of death via photographic poiesis
… helping define the museum’s spatial and metaphorical expressions of its Wunderkammer past. To access an embodied perception of death in the research, a practical and sensory method of working called poiesis was developed. This operated via a reflective and tacit methodology as a form of …
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An analysis of the concept of “peacemaking through blood” in Colossians 1.20b: the Graeco-Roman and Jewish background
… and Frame Semantics to demonstrate that the metaphorical expressions εἰρηνοποιήσας and διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ σταυροῦ αὐτου (Col. 1.20b) evoke conceptual frames from both the Graeco-Roman conceptual world and the Jewish one. The impact of the christological configuration of the concept of …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… recurring words and phrases as literal or as metaphorical. Metaphors of emotion in rebétiko are examined in the light of the theories of conceptual metaphor developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson from 1980 onwards and subsequently elaborated in respect of emotion metaphors by Zóltan …