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An Integrated Approach to Metaphor and Framing in Cognition, Discourse, and Practice, with an Application to Metaphors for Cancer Open
In this article, we examine the notion of 'framing' as a function of metaphor from three interrelated perspectives—cognitive, discourse-based, and practice-based—with the aim of providing an adaptable blueprint of good practice in framing …
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Being safe from what and safe for whom? A critical discussion of the conceptual metaphor of ‘safe space’ Open
Safe space, used in educational settings as a metaphor, stresses the importance of the classroom being a learning environment characterised by respect and safety. Based on examples from Swedish and Norwegian classroom research, this articl…
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Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Advertising: A Corpus-Based Account Open
This paper offers the first large-scale study of a multimodal corpus of 210 advertisements. First, the reader is presented with a description of the corpus in terms of the distribution of conceptual operations (for the purposes of this wor…
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Primary Metaphors Are Both Cultural and Embodied Open
Cognitive linguists have argued that metaphors are anchored in our embodied experiences. Cultural, linguistic and gestural representations are often seen as reflections of underlying conceptual mappings. On the basis of three different met…
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Does the COVID-19 war metaphor influence reasoning? Open
In recent times, many alarm bells have begun to sound: the metaphorical presentation of the COVID-19 emergency as a war might be dangerous, because it could affect the way people conceptualize the pandemic and react to it, leading citizens…
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The Taste of Emotion: Metaphoric Association Between Taste Words and Emotion/Emotion-Laden Words Open
According to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, abstract concepts can be metaphorically associated with more concrete, physically embodied concepts, such as gustatory experience. Studies on taste-emotion metaphoric association reported that p…
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The IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS metaphor as a deliberate metaphor in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian media Open
Applying MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010) to the corpus of media articles about the European migrant crisis in the period from August 2015 until March 2016 in English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, this paper analyzes the IMMIGRANTS ARE ANIMALS m…
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Source Domain Verification Using Corpus-based Tools Open
Source domain verification has not received as much attention as criteria for metaphor identification in the study of conceptual metaphor. In this paper, we provide a replicable approach to source domain verification which we hope will pro…
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Metaphor in media language and cognition: A perspective from conceptual metaphor theory Open
I discuss three large issues relating to media language. (1) How does conceptual metaphor theory affect the way we see the conceptual system that characterizes the main participants of communication in the media? (2) How do conceptual meta…
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Metaphorical framing in political discourse through words vs. concepts: a meta-analysis Open
Conceptual metaphor theory and other important theories in metaphor research are often experimentally tested by studying the effects of metaphorical frames on individuals’ reasoning. Metaphorical frames can be identified by at least two le…
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Metaphors in political discourse: A review of selected studies Open
The use of metaphors in political discourse is a linguistic strategy that has been used all over the world. Studies on metaphor have therefore been done in various parts of the world. This paper reviewed studies on metaphor in political di…
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Explainable Metaphor Identification Inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory Open
Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon but also reflects the concept projection between source and target domains in human cognition. Previous sequence tagging-based metaphor identification methods could not model the concept project…
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Metaphor Clusters, Metaphor Chains: Analyzing the Multifunctionality of Metaphor in Text Open
This paper applies Halliday's (1994) theory of the interpersonal, ideational and textual meta-functions of language to conceptual metaphor. Starting from the observation that metaphoric expressions tend to be organized in chains across tex…
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Curb Your Embodiment Open
To explain how abstract concepts are grounded in sensory‐motor experiences, several theories have been proposed. I will discuss two of these proposals, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Situated Cognition, and argue why they do not fully expl…
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Embodied intersubjectivity, sedimentation and non-actual motion expressions Open
As part of a long-term project investigating the relevance of phenomenology for (cognitive) linguistics we analyse two central, interrelated concepts: embodied intersubjectivity (intercorporeality) and sedimentation . With respect to the f…
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Mind, Body, and Metaphor in Ancient Greek Concepts of Emotion Open
This paper presents examples of the role played by metaphor in the formation of ancient Greek emotional concepts. Previous studies of emotion in ancient Greek societies have focused chiefly on the terms that the ancient Greeks used to labe…
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Deliberate metaphors in political discourse: the case of citizen discourse Open
This article proposes to apply Steen’s (2008) three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis in communication to a corpus of political discourse, in this case citizen discourse. Our corpus has accordingly been analysed by making a distinctio…
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The metaphorical representation of <span>depression</span> in short, wordless animation films Open
Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that human beings can only understand abstract, complex phenomena by metaphorizing them in terms of concrete, more basic phenomena – and do so systematically. Unsurprisingly, therefore, expressing a …
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Media framing of fighting COVID‐19 in China Open
This study focuses on media framings of COVID‐19 in Chinese social and cultural contexts. After analysing nine weeks’ news reports of Xinwen Lianbo , one of China's mainstream media, we discovered that the metaphorical war frame dominated …
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A cognitive semiotic exploration of metaphors in Greek street art Open
Cognitive linguistic and semiotic accounts of metaphor have addressed similar issues such as universality, conventionality, context-sensitivity, cross-cultural variation, creativity, and “multimodality.” However, cognitive linguistics and …
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Words as Powerful Weapons: Dysphemism in Trump’s Covid-19 Speeches Open
Covid-19 pandemic constitutes the greatest threat to the worldwide population and countries nowadays. Donald Trump, the president of the greatest country in the world, has frequently received heavy criticism as a result of his language use…
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Betting is Loving and Bettors are Predators: A Conceptual Metaphor Approach to Online Sports Betting Advertising Open
The legalisation of online gambling in multiple territories has caused a growth in the exposure of consumers to online sports betting (OSB) advertising. While some efforts have been made to understand the visible structure of betting promo…
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Conceptual metaphors in poetry interpretation: a psycholinguistic approach Open
Psycholinguistic research has shown that conceptual metaphors influence how people produce and understand language (e.g., Gibbs, 1994, 2017a; Kövecses, 2015; Jacobs & Kinder, 2017). So far, investigations have mostly paid attention to non-…
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Using Metaphor to Find Meaning in Life Open
Pursuing meaning in life confronts the individual with abstract ideas about the connections between experiences and identities over time ( continuity), the ends that life serves ( purpose), and its worth ( value). Conceptual metaphor theor…
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Interoceptive Interaction: An Embodied Metaphor Inspired Approach to Designing for Meditation Open
Meditation is a mind-body practice with considerable wellbeing benefts that can take diferent forms. Novices usually start with focused attention meditation that supports regulation of attention towards an inward focus or internal bodily s…
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Metaphor and Psychological Transference Open
Psychotherapy is a mental health activity where therapists assist clients through verbal interaction. The phenomenon of transference, where clients superimpose their past experiences onto present life situations, occurs frequently in psych…
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KONSEPTUALISASI METAFORA DALAM RUBRIK OPINI KOMPAS: KAJIAN SEMANTIK KOGNITIF Open
Conceptualization of Metaphors in the 2018 Kompas Opinion Rubric: Cognitive Semantic Studies. This study aims to reveal the types of conceptual metaphors in Kompas opinion writing in 2018. This type of research includes qualitative researc…
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Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness Open
Metaphor is central to human understanding and communication. It pervades our everyday language and also abounds in specialized discourse, with legal language not being an exception. This is particularly relevant since metaphors are powerf…
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Conceptual Metaphor in Meditation Discourse: An Analysis of the Spiritual Perspective Open
Meditation has spread beyond the frontiers of religion to go global in other areas of social practice, including secular and spiritual-but-not-religious contexts. Conceptual metaphor, as proposed by Lakoff (1993) has been described as a po…
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Cinema and the embodied mind: metaphor and simulation in understanding meaning in films Open
Only recently, the broad research program of embodied cognition has fuelled a substantial and ongoing body of research at the crossroads of cognitive science and film studies. Two influential theories of embodiment that have received consi…