Listar por tema "metaphor"
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A Corpus-Based Analysis of Recurrent Structural Metaphors and Domains in Financial Times
Universitat Jaume I (2017-06-13)The purpose of this undergraduate dissertation is to analyze a corpus extracted from the “Companies and Markets” section of the Financial Times. The focus of the analysis is set in the identification of the most common ... -
Adult Brain: Game of Metaphors for Understanding the Internet
Universitat per a Majors de la Universitat Jaume I (2016)With the increasing apogee of the digital world and Internet use by older people, one may wonder how adults understand these virtual spaces. The aim of this article is to see to what extent the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor ... -
Approccio cognitivo alla variazione fraseologica: alcune concettualizzazioni della pazzia in italiano e implicazioni per la loro traduzione in spagnolo e tedesco
Universitat Jaume I (2020)Cognitive linguistics has highlighted the tendency of human beings to understand reality through conceptual transfers between different domains, that can be conventional in the mind and create lexicalized expressions with ... -
Colours We Live by?: Red and Green Metaphors in English and Spanish
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)This paper aims to deepen into the nature of motivation and into the literal and metaphorical continuum of colour expressions for red and green in English and Spanish. We focus on the analysis of colour metaphors in ... -
Conceptual Metaphors in still pictures, a theoretical review
Universitat Jaume I (2019-06-07)Metaphors in antiquity were considered an element of decoration in poetry and rhetorical discourse, but in recent decades metaphors have become an element more closer to thought than language. Metaphor of thought or ... -
Defining semantic and prosodic tools for the analysis of live metaphor uses in Spoken Corpora
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Considering metaphors as hypercoding elements in a genetic outlook, a corpus of twenty six scripted interviews, in British and American English and in French was labelled morphosyntactically and with lsa (latent semantic ... -
Discourse, Semantics and Metonymy
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)In current research on discourse analysis and on metonymy there is an idea that is missing: the study of the discourse potential of metonymic activity. The reasons for this are to be found, in all likelihood, on the one ... -
El discurso de la bioconstrucción arquitectónica: divulgación y legitimación en revistas profesionales
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d’Estudis Anglesos i Departament de Llengues i Cultures Europees (2014)This study analyzes various professional journals form the field of architecture and construction in order to examine how the discourse of the bioconstruction is introduced and legitimatized. In this textual genre, the ... -
Fido Guido: postmodernismo y glocalismo en la música vernácula reggae-raggamuffin de Italia meridional
Universitat Jaume I. Departament d’Estudis Anglesos i Departament de Llengues i Cultures Europees (2013)En este artículo analizaré las características de la música de Fido Guido, un cantante alternativo de música reggae-raggamuffin de Taranto (Italia meridional), en los términos de una metaforización cognitiva y cultural que ... -
Metaphor can influence meta-thinking and affective levels in guided meditation
Springer (2021-04-13)Inducing a state of meditation through conceptual metaphors used in the language of guided meditation instructions can have distinctive effects on well-being and meta-thinking. We hypothesized that the use of novel deliberate ... -
Metaphoric extension and invited inferencing in semantic change
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Two models of semantic change, metaphoric extension (Sweetser, 1990) and invited inferencing (Traugott and Dasher, 2002), have been offered as explanations for changes such as “see” > “know/understand”. In this paper, I ... -
Metaphorical Concepts and Their Cognitive Functions in Medical Discourse: Research Papers vs. Press Articles
Faculty of Economics. University of Belgrade (2021-01)The aim of this paper is to disclose linguistic evidence of the use and function of metaphors in medical discourse, by comparing their incidence in two genres, namely research papers and press articles. For that purpose, ... -
La metáfora en las narrativas de pacientes: estudio de corpus desde una doble perspectiva lingüística y cultural
Universitat Jaume I (2020-02)La necesidad de humanizar la medicina científica y de ofrecer una atención centrada en el paciente ha dado lugar a la aparición de un nuevo tipo de narrativa llamada medicina narrativa cuyo objetivo es el de complementar ... -
Metáfora y discurso
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)Texto completo del vol. 5 (2007) de la revista Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación / Culture, Language and Representation. -
La metáfora y la metonimia en el lenguaje de la diabetes: el caso de la variante chilena
Tremédica. Asociación Internacional de Traductores y Redactores de Medicina y Ciencias Afines (2019)La metáfora y la metonimia son dos fenómenos lingüísticos utilizados frecuentemente para explicar conceptos propios del conocimiento especializado. En medicina, suponen una herramienta utilizada tanto por especialistas, ... -
On analogical knowledge: metaphors in biotechnology discourse
Universitat de València (2018)During a period dominated by positivist thinking, metaphors seemed incompatible with science, at least for the most common manifestations of scientific discourse. However, this apparent transgression is now considered ... -
Pedagogical Potential of Online Dictionaries in Metaphor and Idiom Language Instruction
International Association of Online Engineering (2022-11-15)Metaphors are an intrinsic part of thought and language that allow us to construe a cognitive domain in terms of another domain. Metaphors are especially relevant to the study of idioms, inasmuch as idioms are commonly ... -
Perceptual Parameters, Animacy and Reference Frames in the Semantics of "Opposite" and "In Front of"
Petru Maior University Press (2013)In this paper we combine topological and dynamicity analysis with other parameters li ke reference frames, animacy, and function, in order to depict the polysemy of two prepositions that express spatial relationships ... -
Presentación: Metáfora y discurso
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The Construction of the Concept Internet through Metaphors
Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2007)The expressions by which we refer to the Internet reveal how we conceptualize it. Rather than “a network of networks of computers”, as it is usually defined, we actually perceive and experience the Internet as a PLACE. ...