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Aim: The aim of this study is to determine perceptions of policy by nurses through metaphors. Method: This is a descriptive study. The study sample included 424 nurses working in Turkey. The data were collected online u...

This work investigates the relevance of analogy, metonymy and metaphor in word formation patterns and their products. Initially, the semantic side of proportional analogy in morphological restructuring is analyzed. The w...

Metaphorical means of reducing situational anxiety in individuals are investigated. The aim of the study is to determine the possibilities of significantly reducing situational anxiety in mature individuals through the a...

The goal of our study is to identify several conceptualizations of the body expressed in the contexts of psychopathology and literature. We propose a specific categorization of literary sentences drawing on Conceptual Me...

This paper discusses the nature of the metaphorical transfer from the source domain to the target domain. More specifically, it explores the question as to how the mapping links between features of the source and the tar...

The article presents a survey of the metaphor- and simile-related researches in modern linguistics and considers stylistic functions of metaphors and similes in contemporary fiction. It is based on the novel The Goldfinc...

IntroductionThis study investigates how multimodal metaphors convey two core Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) concepts— “Yin Xu” (Yin deficiency) and “Yang Xu” (Yang deficiency)—in short science communicati...

Abstract In this Dossier, four scholars reflect on Nicholas Onuf’s leading article, ‘Metaphoricizing modernity’, (re)engaging with – and celebrating – more broadly Onuf’s groundbreaking work from different pl...

ABSTRACT This paper addresses the challenge of analysing texts for ideational grammatical metaphor. It undertakes this task from the perspective of recent work on field (Doran & Martin in press) and discourse semantics (...

Traditional philosophy draws its foundation from logocentrism. It is therefore intended to be theoretical and is thought of as universal and absolute truth. This approach is deconstructed by Derrida. The latter postulate...

This research is a descriptive research that aims to descrcibe students’ mathematical reasoning ability by metaphorical thinking approach in proportion section at grade VIIIA SMPN 1 Indralaya Utara. Data collectio...

In today’s world, where learning a foreign language has become a necessity, students’ perceptions of French play an important role in the language learning process. In this context, metaphors are one of the most effe...

This paper discusses three radically different approaches to the issue of novel metaphor: the classic view, according to which metaphor is itself defined by its novelty with respect to our established conceptual systems;...

This discourse-based study investigated semantic and affective aspects of metaphors used by people talking about background risk of terrorism. 96 members of the UK public participated in 12 focus group discussions, organ...

The purely cognitive representation of metaphor poses some difficulties. It is proposed that these difficulties can be tackled down in the alternative view proposed in this article, according to which there is an interde...

Metaphor interpretation takes cognitive effort and produces some complex set of cognitive effects. Although most metaphor scholars assume that there are definitive ways for studying metaphor effort and effects, there are...

Contemporary theories of metaphor often give the body a foundational status, by claiming that it provides the universal ground upon which imagination engenders figurative thought. This paper goes against this idea, discu...

Latar Belakang: Perempuan sering terjebak dalam stereotip tradisional. Dimana perempuan dilihat hanya sebagai pendukung dari kaum laki-laki. Tujuan: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana perempuan s...

Just Culture, a sub-dimension of safety culture, has been a prominent and debated topic in aviation safety in recent years. Just culture signifies a work environment where employees are motivated to provide essential saf...

INTRODUCTION. An analysis of the sustained metaphor of “purgatory” is conducted, which unites I.S. Shmelyov’s later literary-critical essay “On Dostoevsky” with the novel “The Idiot” (1949) and his autofict...

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Lingüística mención Lengua Inglesa The study of Metaphors in the English language has revealed a vacuum regarding newspaper editorials. The present research study reviews the ...

Agents repesent a new paradigm for developing software applications. In spite of the interest of this particular way of looking at problems, there is considerable discrepancy on exactly what is an agent and which are the...

This paper presents an Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) model for the Multiple Knapsack Problem (MKP). The ACO algorithms, as well as other evolutionary metaphors, are being applied successfully to diverse heavily constrain...