Metaphorical representations

This paper examines the metaphorical modes of expression by means of ATION suffix. Based on an English corpus built of official texts, it looks at the identification of nominals with –ATION, their metaphorical meanings, and their distribution across two sub-corpora – ADB texts and WB texts.

5p vispyker 16-11-2022 14 4   Download

This paper summarily reports the results of a study which attempts to identify conceptual metaphors of spring through their representations called metaphorical expressions in English and Vietnamese song lyrics from cognitive perspective based on the theory of conceptual metaphors initiated by Lakoff and Johnson, with the work Metaphors We Live by (1980a). The data collected from 205 English and Vietnamese songs (98 and 107 songs respectively) from the 20th century to the present consist of 736 metaphorical expressions.

14p nguaconbaynhay11 07-04-2021 22 3   Download

This paper summarizes different approaches to the meaning extension of the English preposition over and proposes a multimodal approach comprising three spatial image theories and one mental space theory in reference to an image-based view.

14p partimesinhvien 08-05-2020 62 6   Download

In the domain of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), the term “nominalisation” is used to refer to non-congruent metaphorical modes of expression, which is a predominant tendency characteristic of grammatical metaphor (Halliday 1985/1994). As an alternative way of encoding verbal meanings, nominalisations perform important ideological functions.

5p vidanh95 12-12-2018 18 0   Download

This paper summarizes major views of metaphor in the light of traditional linguistics and cognitive linguistics. Also, the paper investigates the representations of the cognitive metaphor “Love is a journey” in English and Vietnamese, discussing what mechanism helps language users to metaphorize an abstract concept (love) on the basis of another concept (journey).

9p miulovesmile4 19-11-2018 56 0   Download