Search Results - "metaphor"
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Talking metaphors: metaphors and the philosophy of language
Published 2013“…My claim is that the metaphorical dimension of an utterance can be found in the circumstance of evaluation, and not in the content which is expressed by the utterance. …”
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Botany And Metaphor
Published 2012“…I started the doctorate program with works depicting fictional plants as a mirror or metaphor for my thoughts and feelings. The plants in the watercolour works on paper are impossible biologically and in terms of the environments in which I place them. …”
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Metaphors we die by? Geoengineering, metaphors and the argument from catastrophe
Published 2012“…It asks in particular how this option for dealing with the problems posed by climate change were framed through the use of conceptual and discourse metaphors and whether one can argue that these are metaphors we ‘live by’ or metaphors we might ‘die by’. …”
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Metaphors of flood disaster in Malaysian media: a cognitive metaphor perspective
Published 2020“…This paper examines the metaphors used in media discourses related to flood disasters in Malaysia from 2014-2017 in various media discourses. …”
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The greenhouse metaphor and the footprint metaphor: climate change risk assessment and risk management seen through the lens of two prominent metaphors
Published 2014“…This article charts the emergence and framing of anthropogenic climate change as risk through the lens of two metaphors: greenhouse effect and carbon footprint. …”
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A cognitive analysis of snake and lion metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English
Published 2012Subjects: “…Metaphor in literature…”
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Construction of Malaysian Chineseness through biometaphors in Malaysian Chinese literature in English
Published 2015Subjects: “…Metaphor in literature…”
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Metaphorical competence in an EFL context: the mental lexicon and metaphorical competence of Japanese EFL students
Published 2004“…This thesis on metaphor and metaphor study covers theoretical and practical issues in the past and the present both in the occidental and oriental worlds. …”
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Reflections on Metaphors for Learning Design
Published 2016“…Metaphors are commonly used to help explain complex phenomena. …”
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Metaphor in Social History Museums
Published 2015“…Museums are now moving away from denotation as a primary communication strategy, one of the modes that emerges being metaphor. Just as the fixed meaning of artefacts was once understood to reside in their sheer materiality, now we see materiality resurfacing in museums, but this time via metaphor which is theorized as resting on the material experience of the world by our human bodies.…”
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Metaphor and the development of pragmatic competence
Published 2008“…Among the pragmatic competence that they have developed are pronoun, similes and metaphor language. Therefore, in this study, focus will be on the language usage in children’s speech. …”
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Lion metaphors in Chinese and English
Published 2013“…This study intends to explore the cultural similarities and differences between the lion metaphors in Mandarin Chinese and British English. …”
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Metaphors of illness in news reports in a Malaysian newspaper
Published 2016Subjects: “…Metaphor - Malaysia…”
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