Structural metaphors

This study is an investigation of conceptual metaphors of social life in Emily Dickinson’s selected poems in the framework theory of Lakoff and Johnson (1980/2003), Kovecses (2010). In this paper, the structural metaphors, orientational metaphors and ontological metaphors will be analyzed to reflect the opinions of theirs about life, love, and sadness in the lyrics of the poets.

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The article aims to investigate the impact of embodiment theory by Lakoff & Johnson on some orientational metaphorical structures identified through the examining of some official electronic newspapers in the UK and Vietnam.

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There always exist new things, phenomena, concepts in our society, which creates the introduction of new words. Therefore, the emergence of new word is a regular process of linguistics for the enrichment of Vietnamese. However, there are not many scientific studies of this issue.

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Bài viết Khảo sát ẩn dụ ý niệm cấu trúc của mùa xuân trong thơ tiếng Anh và tiếng Việt bước đầu khảo sát ẩn dụ ý niệm cấu trúc (conceptual structural metaphor) của mùa xuân trên cứ liệu 500 mẫu được rút ra từ 100 bài thơ tiếng Anh và 150 bài thơ tiếng Việt, đồng thời nêu ra sự giống và khác nhau của ẩn dụ này ở cả hai ngôn ngữ.

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Part 1 of book "Code Complete (Second edition)" will provide with knowledge about: laying the foundation; creating high-quality code; variables; statements; metaphors for a richer understanding of software development; the pseudocode programming process; fundamental data types; unusual data types; organizing straight-line code;...

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This chapter presents the following content: What is drama, conflict, rising and falling action , plot – denouement, catharsis; going deeper- meaning making: themes, subtext, imagery, symbol, metaphor, allegory, ambiguity, irony, allusion, archetypes; analysis – comprehension: 7-stages; drawing conclusion; writer’s background; a doll’s house: themes and structure; plot overview: a doll’s house.

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This study investigates the structural metaphors used in the source language from Graham Greene’s novel “The Quiet American”. The study was conducted with the qualitative aspects of the data and analytic, synthetic method based on the theoretical framework about metaphors of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) and Kovecses (2002).

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Biological pathways represent chains of molecular interactions in biological systems that jointly form complex dynamic networks. The network structure changes from the significance of biological experiments and layout algorithms often sacrifice low-level details to maintain high-level information, which complicates the entire image to large biochemical systems such as human metabolic pathways.

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This article discusses how structural, orientational, ontological conceptual metaphors work in forming new language expressions or idioms. From this insight, several suggestions for EFL classes are made.

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The paper examines the structural metaphors in English and Vietnamese football commentaries based on the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The paper uses the contrastive analysis of metaphors with respect to their their usage, mapping mechanism and linguistic realizations.

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The aim of the thesis is to apply the theory in cognitive linguistics to Vietnamese to establish the conceptual structure and conceptual domain “food”, discover the target domains, the source domains, mapping system and the mapping mechanism among the conceptual domains; codifying metaphorical notion of "food" in Vietnamese in order to study cognitive characteristics and Vietnamese cultural identity through conceptual metaphor of "food”.

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The island of Venice has been sinking perceptibly for centuries, but recent news is that global warming is likely to accelerate the cataclysm that will take the city below a viable water level in the lagoon. A possible parallel may be drawn with the unwritten British constitution that some reformers have long been threatening to abandon, but which continues to be the basis of a rather unusual system of government, one that is often visited and sometimes admired by constitutional tourists from other countries.

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About Lafferty: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (November 7, 1914 - March 18, 2002) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer known for his original use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit. He also wrote a set of four autobiographical novels, In a Green Tree; a history book, The Fall of Rome; and a number of novels that could be more or less loosely called historical fiction. Lafferty was born on 7 November 1914 in Neola, Iowa to Hugh David Lafferty (a broker dealing in oil leases and royalties) and Julia Mary Burke, a...

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The persona lifecycle is a metaphoric framework that breaks the persona process into phases similar to those of human procreation and development. As shown in Figure 2.1 , the fi ve phases in this framework bring structure to the potentially complicated process of persona creation and highlight critical (yet often overlooked or ignored) aspects of persona use: ● Family planning — Before you begin any persona effort, you should fi gure out what problems you’re trying to solve and what materials (specifi cally, data sources) are already available for you to use.

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This thesis is about the metaphors of the rainbow and the fogbow, investigations and evaluations, public internet monitors, writing women, reflections and discussions about politics, design and democracy. It is also about the ongoing re-structuring of participation in service design within the development of eGovernment. The aim behind the drive towards eGovernment is to modernise administration and make it more efficient. The transformation and modernisation of public services are proclaimed to bring about a change in services based on a ‘citizen-centred approach.

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