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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...

This article presents some considerations into metaphor in language and thought- 'the topic and title of the first conference of its kind in Brazil'. The paper focuses on the discussions presented in the round table, whi...

On the "standard" view of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Kövecses 2002), metaphorical creativity arises from the cognitive processes of extending, elaboration, questioning, and combining conceptual conte...

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...

This paper considers metaphor as a kind of activity in the spirit of Levinson's 'Activity Types' or of Mey's 'Pragmatic Acts'. Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, metaphors neither belong exclusively t...

This article aims to show, in a summarized way, how different studies on metaphor can positively converge to a cognitive-linguistic perception of this phenomenon. This perception surpasses a merely stylistic vision of th...

Abstract We of the modern world tell stories about being modern, becoming modern. We ask where modernity is going. Two metaphorical complexes dominate these stories: We favour metaphors of life and growth; modernity has ...

The present paper re-addresses metaphor based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The metaphors selected pertain to political discourse, precisely Trump’s statements on differe...

Subjects / keywords: ROGERS, ROBERT; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS; 801.95 R728m

Subjects / keywords: LAKOFF, GEORGE; THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS; 401 L192m

One important contribution to the Contemporary Theory of Metaphor is Grady's Primary Metaphor Hypothesis (1997), which claims that the emergence and nature of conceptual metaphors are often grounded in more experiential ...

Este trabalho apresenta um estudo interlingüístico e evolutivo da compreensão de oito metáforas primárias sob a perspectiva da Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual. Os dados foram obtidos através de entrevistas com crian...

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...

An important reason for the tremendous interest in metaphor over the past 20 years stems from cognitive linguistic research. Cognitive linguists embrace the idea that metaphor is not merely a part of language, but reflec...

This paper reports a study on the use of collocation lists as instruments for detecting metaphors in corpora. A collocation list contains the collocations for selected words in corpora together with concordances for thos...

Neste artigo, argumento que metáfora e conceito são nomes para o mesmo tipo de coisa. E, se isso é assim, metáfora é uma metáfora para conceito; conceito é uma metáfora para metáfora. Se assim o é, então o con...

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 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...