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Discourse Topics and Metaphors
... of metaphors in this corpus. Indeed, numerous instances of metaphors were collected using a 4-word window around the lemma in their ...deliberate metaphors more effectively, one is advised to ...
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Rain Metaphors and Images in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain Perspectives on The Sociology of Malaysian Chinese Identity
... rain metaphors and images in the sociology of Malaysian ...and metaphors of rain act as an approach into the socio-cultural understanding of the Malaysian Chinese ...rain metaphors is heavily ...
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The Cross-modal Representation of Metaphors
... of metaphors: metaphors realized in both language and gesture, and metaphors realized in gesture ...only metaphors comprise over a half of all the metaphoric expressions ...
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Time-moving Metaphors and Ego-moving Metaphors: Which Is Better Comprehended by Taiwanese?
... Boroditsky (2001: 18) claims that “one’s native language appears to exert a strong influence over how one thinks about abstract domains like time.” Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis claims that when L2 is learned, the ...
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The metaphors of globalization and trade an analysis of the language used in the World Trade Organization
... Through metaphors humans gain ownership and control of the world they live ...use metaphors to manage the meaning of the world that surrounds ...which metaphors belong is the force to arrange facts ...
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Evolution Perception with Metaphors
... A two-staged questionnaire was used to determine the metaphors of the participants with regards to the theory of evolution. In the first stage, the participants were asked to complete the sentence “The theory of ...
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Optimizing friction between alternative genomic metaphors: How much plurality is enough?
... multiple metaphors can provide a more complete ...If metaphors help to create a world, then a single metaphor provides only partial understanding at the intersection between the impressions highlighted by ...
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A Different Vision in eLearning: Metaphors
... of metaphors in the process of information communication in eLearning ...of metaphors in e-education should be explored more extensively and more thoroughly in order to support better interconnections among ...
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Computing Affect in Metaphors
... Affect in metaphor arises from the juxtaposi- tion of a Source and a Target domain through the relations explicated in linguistic metaphors. The- se relations typically involve one or more predi- cates from the ...
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From Linguistic to Conceptual Metaphors
... use metaphors to achieve their communicative goals and negotiate meaning; that is, they take a speaker ...linguistic metaphors is thus more richly grounded, but researchers are less likely to attempt ...
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ON BIOLOGICAL METAPHORS IN ECONOMIC DISCOURSE
... However, not only do pets and domestic animals play roles in business metaphors, but they are very often accompanied by the living things of sharp instincts and hidden agenda. In a world of predators and prey, ...
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An Examination of Conceptualization of Sport Metaphors
... Studies revealed that having abilities and doing well in sports is much more important for the boys than the girls (Eccles, Wigfield, Harold, & Blumenfeld, 1993; Jacobs, Lanza, Osgood, Eccles, & Wigfield, 2002). ...
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A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Study of Metaphors in the Language of Computer Hardware and Software
... Barr (2003) remarks that despite the fact that computers fall under the category of the devices that are difficult to understand and operate, many people use them almost every day and will continue to use them for years ...
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Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe
... Geoengineering is a highly speculative and highly abstract technological intervention, or rather a raft of possible interventions, in the Earth’s climate. It therefore may appear to be a purely technological problem. ...
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Visual Metaphors
... Cassirer description Gombrich did but scientific the thought full is the calls underlies which Forms distinct two of multiple thinking Symbolic which mythical mythical of of these of the[r] ...
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Year: 2016 Volume: 4 Number: 3
... and metaphors in education is examined, they seem to be instructional models including comparisons of similarities between two systems or elements (Forceville, 2002), but conducting these comparisons in different ...
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Metaphor analysis of Dr. Mahathir’s business speeches
... Some of the common linguistic and discourse elements used in political discourse analysis are pronominal choices (Oddo, 2011; David and Dumanig, 2011), vocabulary choices (Oddo, 2011; David and Dumanig, 2011), modality ...
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God the Exclusively Christian Father
... of metaphors believers are guided towards a certain degree of understanding of the divine, as characteristics of earthly concepts are applied to the divine ...and metaphors are the only access humans have ...
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Metaphors in a Cognitive Aspect
... of metaphors in poetry, many researchers compared it with other semiotic con- cepts (symbol, metonymy, ...and metaphors, and therefore they cannot be a means of ...
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A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Food Proverbs in English
... 1.Structural Metaphors: Lakoff and Johnson (2003:14) refer to the structural metaphor as ''cases where one concept is metaphorically structured in terms of ...
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