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Metaphor and Cognition
This book collects virtually all research perspectives on metaphor in the field of cognitive linguistics. Moreover, it presents a comprehensive range...
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Critical Metaphor Analysis as a Means of (Re)construction of Knowledge Creation
The chapter aims to investigate the creation of specialised knowledge in different disciplinary contexts, focusing on the interplay between the...
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Root Metaphor
Root metaphor, proposed by the American philosopher Stephen C. Pepper (1891–1972), was a metaphorical theory used to observe the world. Pepper...
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A Critique of Halliday’s Model of Grammatical Metaphor
In my 1996 article on the topic, I mentioned that there are at least five types of grammatical metaphor (GM hereafter) because people have different...
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Metaphor: The Rhetorical Frame of Humour
In this chapter the second stage of the model is emphasized through metaphor as a measuring tool for evaluating the transgression of humour. With a...
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A Detailed Overview of Theory: CDA, Ecolinguistics and Metaphor
The third chapter presents theoretical foundations of the main theories used in this book, including CDA, Ecolinguistics, and Metaphor. These...
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Masking the Critic: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Editorials
Newspaper editorials are revealed through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to be a site of complex criticism. A finding of this study is that the...
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Towards a Constructional Approach to Metaphor of Modality
This chapter will discuss the need to incorporate the cognitive constructional approach to account for (interpersonal) Metaphor of Modality and how...
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A Critical Stylistic Analysis of Both Poems in Sorani
This final chapter deals with issues of translating Bekas’ poems from Sorani to English and provides a critical stylistic analysis of the opening...
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Introduction to Critical Stylistics and Analysis of The Martyrs’ Wedding
This chapter is the first of three chapters in this book that presents a Critical Stylistic analysis of two of Bekas’ poems and begins with an...
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Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
This chapter begins with an introduction of some of the key notions that regularly inform critical linguistic analyses. It starts with a discussion...
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Metaphor
This chapter presents a survey of historically influential accounts of metaphor, from the classical views of Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian to the...
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Critical Stylistic Analysis of Bloody Crown by Sherko Bekas
This chapter continues with the presentation of an analysis of our translation of the second poem entitled Bloody Crown, a poem Bekas wrote to...
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Dissemination of Knowledge During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of Research and Popular Articles
During the COVID-19 pandemic, research in medical science gained much importance as people had serious concerns about their lives. Latest scientific...
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Introduction: Communicating Metaphor
This chapter introduces metaphor as a central feature of literature and as a communicative phenomenon more generally, in light of the relevance...
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The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective
This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA. The author enriches...
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Taking Responsibility: Conceptual Metaphor and the Accession Stage of Leadership in Eric Williams’ Inward Hunger: The Making of a Prime Minister
Williams begins his autobiography with the poverty of Trinidad and Tobago—the result of exploitation by colonial powers. It is a situation he...
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Nation, Nationalism and Metaphor
In order to form aCulture culture-sensitive view of figurative conceptualisations such as that of the nation as body[lak]NATION AS (WHOLE) BODY...
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Founding Concepts: Metaphor and Metonymy in the (French) ECSC Treaty
The present paper aims at contributing to the study of the conceptualisations of Europe by looking at legal discourse at the beginning of post-war...
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“The Most Honourable Brogad”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Jamaica’s Prime Minister as Hero, Sex Symbol and Villain on Social Media
This chapter examines the role of the public’s language use in giving and taking power away from political representatives. Within Critical Discourse...