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Journal articles on the topic "Animal metaphors"

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Ntabo, Victor, and George Ogal Ouma. "A Metaphoric Analysis of Miriri’s Ekegusii Pop Song Ebunda." International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2, no. 1 (January 26, 2021): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.47631/ijecls.v2i1.163.

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The study undertakes a metaphoric analysis of the animal metaphors in Miriri’s Ekegusii pop song “Ebunda” (a donkey) to reveal meaning. The meaning of the animal metaphors in the song might be elusive to the majority of the fans because metaphor is principally a matter of thought and action which is often situated in a specific context. The study employed the descriptive research design to describe the metaphors as used in the song. First, four coders (including the researchers) were employed to identify the metaphors in the song through the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit. Secondly, the metaphors in the song were classified into animal metaphors based on the levels of the principle of Great Chain of Being metaphor (GCBM). The animal metaphors in “Ebunda” were then explained using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The study reveals that animals are stratified source domains used to effectively conceptualize human beings as highlighted in the song. In addition, the animal metaphors in “Ebunda” are used on a cognitive basis to reveal the perceptions Abagusii (the native speakers of Ekegusii) have about some animals in society. Metaphors are crucial ways of communication and are best explained using the Cognitive Linguistics paradigm.
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Albtoush, Mohammad Abedltif, and Sakina Suffian Sahuri. "Beyond Predator and Prey: Figuring Corruption through Animal Metaphoric Scenarios in the Jordanian Context." English Language and Literature Studies 7, no. 2 (May 30, 2017): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v7n2p110.

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Combining a cognitive approach based on Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory and a pragmatic approach based on Critical Metaphor Analysis, this study investigates the use of ANIMAL metaphoric scenarios to figure corruption as a relationship between predators and prey and the cultural implications in the Jordanian context. It also seeks to identify the diverse functions performed by the use of ANIMAL metaphors. Data for the study consist of 10 excerpts taken from a satire-genre discourse “sawalief.com”. My argument is that all animal metaphors in the corpus promote the contrast between the ACTIVITY of corrupters and the PASSIVITY of the citizenry and that the goal of this rhetoric is to move the PASSIVE citizenry into ACTION by shaming them into fighting corruption. This is clearly illustrated through the use of two types of ANIMAL metaphoric scenarios: ACTIVE ANIMALS representing corrupters and politicians, and PASSIVE ANIMALS representing the citizens. In addition, the use of these metaphors performs diverse functions: ideological, cognitive, and rhetorical.
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Galera Masegosa, Alicia, and Aneider Iza Erviti. "Conceptual complexity in metaphorical resemblance operations revisited." Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 28, no. 1 (September 10, 2015): 97–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/resla.28.1.05gal.

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The present article is concerned with the analysis of so-called metaphoric resemblance operations. Our corpus of animal metaphors, as representative of resemblance metaphors, reveals that there are complex cognitive operations other than simple one-correspondence mappings that are necessary to understand the interpretation process of the selected expressions (which include metaphor and simile). We have identified a strong underlying situational component in many of the examples under scrutiny, which requires the metonymic expansion of the metaphoric source. Additionally, metaphoric amalgams (understood as the combination of the conceptual material from two or more metaphors) and high-level metonymy in interaction with low-level metaphor are also essential for the analysis of animal metaphors.
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Arkin, Robert M. "Editorial: Animal Metaphors." Basic and Applied Social Psychology 31, no. 4 (November 18, 2009): 287–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01973530903320676.

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Jamzaroh, Siti. "JENIS DAN BENTUK METAFORA DALAM KISDAP “JULAK AHIM” KARYA JAMAL T. SURYANATA." UNDAS: Jurnal Hasil Penelitian Bahasa dan Sastra 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/und.v14i1.1135.

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This research is aimed to find out 1) to know the type of metaphor of Kisdap "Julak Ahim" (2) to describe the metaphoric function in that contained in Kisdap "Julak Ahim" The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive. Data collection is done by reading technique and record technique. Furthermore, the data are classified based on the metaphorical characteristics shown. Data analysis is done by contrasting the expression data used with the metaphor. The results found are: 1) The type of metaphor found based on 1.1) its constituent elements in kisdap "Julak Ahim" is a) the animal metaphor (2); b) the synesthesia metaphor (1); c) anthropomorphic metaphor (2); and d) concrete-abstract metaphor (2); 1.2) based on its structure, there are a) subjective and complementary nominative metaphors and b) sentence metaphors.
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Forth, Gregory. "Bad Mothers and Strange Offspring: Images of Scrubfowl and Sea Turtles in Eastern Indonesia." Ethnobiology Letters 11, no. 2 (December 4, 2020): 52–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.14237/ebl.11.2.2020.1624.

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One way birds communicate knowledge to humans and facilitate communication among humans is through metaphors. A recent book discusses animal metaphors, nearly a third of which employ birds as vehicles, used by the Nage people of Flores Island (eastern Indonesia). As applied to human beings and human behaviors, bird metaphors reveal considerable overlap with other animal metaphors; thus, a full understanding of these requires additional attention to the metaphoric or more generally symbolic value of other sorts of non-human animals. Emphasizing how knowledge of birds is shaped in some degree by an extra-cultural empirical experience of the creatures, the present discussion explores similar representations of a bird, the scrubfowl, and a marine reptile, the sea turtle, among people in several parts of Flores.
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Oļehnoviča, Ilze, Jeļena Tretjakova, and Solveiga Liepa. "Metaphors Instrumental in Achieving the Pragmatic Effect in Animal Rights Advertisements." Research in Language 18, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 441–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.18.4.06.

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Metaphor can manifest itself in a variety of form including the visual one, which can be an extremely expressive means of communication. That is why visual metaphors are widely used by marketers and advertisers thus becoming a topical object of linguistic research programmes. The study of visual metaphor is tightly related to the study of conceptual metaphor as the target message delivered by a picture is derived from a certain source field that is employed for metaphorical representation. Another type of metaphor commonly used in visual representation is a multimodal metaphor. The present research dwells upon the study of metaphor use in animal rights protection advertisements. The hypothesis of the study is that visual metaphors present strong content that can activate emotions and contribute to the marketers’ desire to influence the audience.
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Wulandari, Ari. "KEARIFAN LOKAL ORANG JAWA DALAM METAFORA NOVEL PARA PRIYAYI, KARYA UMAR KAYAM." SASDAYA: Gadjah Mada Journal of Humanities 1, no. 2 (August 28, 2017): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/sasdayajournal.27779.

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The metaphor is born because of the limitations of human language, while the human mind is unlimited. This research data is a metaphor in the Para Priyayi novel. This study uses a qualitative research design or research context. Metaphors are covered depends context of existing metaphors in the Para Priyayi novel. Metaphoric consists of nine patterns, namely (1) one sentence, one metaphor, (2) one sentence, two metaphors, (3) one sentence, three metaphors, (4) tenor at the front, the vehicle in the behind, (5) vehicle at the front, tenor in the behind, (6) noun - verb, (7) verb - noun, (8) noun - adjective, and (9) the frozen form. As there are four kinds of metaphor, namely (1) a metaphor of man, (2) a metaphor of animal, (3) a metaphor of plant, and (4) a metaphor of natural circumstances. The sphere of life that exists in the Para Priyayi novel metaphor includes five programs: (1) economics, (2) the family, (3) community, (4) the natural environment, and (5) of religion and belief. The values of local wisdom includes nine things, namely (1) character, (2) ethics, (3) chivalry, (4) the concept of Manunggaling Kawula kalawan Gusti, (5) education, (6) the attitude of the community, (7) moral education, (8) self-control, and (9) leadership. The research proves that metaphor in the Para Priyayi novel has certain forms and types, contains the realm of Javanese life, and the values of Java local wisdom.
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Sekret, Iryna. "Strategies of conveying metaphors in political discourse: analysis of the Turkish translations of George Orwell's “Animal Farm”." International journal of linguistics, literature and culture 6, no. 4 (May 18, 2020): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/ijllc.v6n4.911.

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Translating metaphor and metaphoric expressions is one of the disputable problems in translation studies due to the conceptual discrepancies which exist between the source culture and the target readership, moreover, if the metaphor plays a crucial role in creating an appeal to the reader as in the political text. In this respect, it is under the discussion of how to deal with a metaphor when translating political discourse, and what are the dominating strategies and traditions of translating metaphoric units in Turkish translations. Caused by the theoretical and practical urgency of the problem, this paper is aimed to analyze strategies of conveying metaphors from English to Turkish based on the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell and its Turkish translations by Sedat Demir and Celal Üster. To achieve the aims of the research the efforts were undertaken to compare the original text with its two different translations. For the precise analysis, Old Major’s speech was thoroughly scrutinized on the point of the metaphoric expressions in the text and their correspondences in the Turkish translations.
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Prokhorova, Olga N., Igor V. Chekulai, Olga I. Agafonova, Elena V. Pupynina, Oksana V. Markelova, and Marina S. Matytsina. "Political metaphor in Covid-19 media coverage." LAPLAGE EM REVISTA 7, Extra-D (July 10, 2021): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.24115/s2446-622020217extra-d1061p.15-21.

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The article is meant to look at the COVID-19 coverage in political discourse in the frames of the metaphor based approach. The authors aimed at examining the role of language and metaphor in the way we speak and understand as particular metaphorical concepts appear to be key mechanisms of shaping the reality in these times. The results introduced in the article show that currently predominating types of metaphors such as military or war metaphors, animal and catastrophe metaphors. The above metaphors are studied in political discourses on the gross scale.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Animal metaphors"

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Abbattista, Alessandra. "Animal metaphors and the depiction of female avengers in Attic tragedy." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2018. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/ANIMAL-METAPHORS-AND-THE-DEPICTION-OF-FEMALE-AVENGERS-IN-ATTIC-TRAGEDY(40f0c5dc-a189-4270-b278-9b99c25e559d).html.

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In the attempt to enrich classical literary criticism with modern theoretical perspectives, this thesis formulates an interdisciplinary methodological approach to the study of animal metaphors in the tragic depiction of female avengers. Philological and linguistic commentaries on the tragic passages where animals metaphorically occur are not sufficient to determine the effect that Attic dramatists would have provoked in the fifth-century Athenian audience. The thesis identifies the dramatic techniques that Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides deploy to depict vengeful heroines in animal terms, by combining gender studies of the classical world, classical studies of animals and posthumanism. It rejects the anthropocentric and anthropomorphic views of previous classical scholars who have interpreted the animal-woman metaphor in revenge plots as a tragic expression of non-humanity. It argues instead that animal imagery was considered particularly effective to express the human contradictions of female vengeance in the theatre of Dionysus. The thesis investigates the metaphorical employment of the nightingale, the lioness and the snake in the tragic characterisation of women who claim compensation for the injuries suffered within and against their household. Chapter 1 is focused on the image of the nightingale in comparison with tragic heroines, who perform ritual lamentation to incite vengeance. Chapter 2 explores the lioness metaphor in the representation of tragic heroines, who through strength and protectiveness commit vengeance. Chapter 3 examines the metaphorical use of the snake in association with tragic heroines, who plan and inflict vengeance by deceit. Through the reconstruction of the metaphorical metamorphoses enacted by vengeful women into nightingales, lionesses and snakes, the thesis demonstrates that Attic dramatists would have provoked a tragic effect of pathos. Employed as a Dionysiac tool, animal imagery reveals the tragic humanity of avenging heroines whose voice, agency and deception cause nothing but suffering to their family, and inevitably to themselves.
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Anderson, Julie Anne. "The Fox and the Goose: The Pamphlet Wars and Volpone's Animal Metaphors." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7273.

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Ben Jonson wrote Volpone when England's pamphlet wars and the rule of Queen Elizabeth I contributed to an environment in which the <">woman question<"> was forefront in many minds. These social concerns echo in Volpone, resulting in a play that not only deals with vices and greed, but that also, to a limited degree, contributes to the querelle de femmes. The play's numerous animal metaphors create distinctions between characters; among other things, animalistic surnames represent the vices and complexities of humanity, and, more specifically, reverberate with judgments that seem to underscore the injustices of misogynistic pamphleteers. Moreover, Jonson's characters Bonario and Celia represent the ideal images of manhood and womanhood and are armed with various virtues that allow them to overcome trials. Ultimately, when read in the context of the Early Modern pamphlet wars, Volpone's animal metaphors form a conservative defense of women that condemns misogyny and advocates a partnership between virtuous men and women for the sake of moral social order.
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Foreman, Benjamin A. ""Who teaches us more than the beasts of the Earth?" animal metaphors and the people of Israel in the Book of Jeremiah /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=66971.

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McDonald, Angela I. "Animal metaphor in the Egyptian determinative system : three case studies." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c7bf503a-f8d6-47bf-a62e-3ab824cf8952.

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Many languages, both ancient and modern, make use of devices similar to determinatives in Egyptian by which the meaning of a word can be made more specific. But determinatives are especially rich in their capacity for expression, particularly regarding words for abstract concepts through their extensive use of visually-based metaphor. Egyptological research is only now beginning to explore the many levels at which the system functioned. My thesis centres around the metaphorical usages of three signs - the Seth animal, the panther, and the crocodile. The introduction lays out my aimes, methods, and textual sources. The first chapter sets my analysis against the backdrop of current research, beginning with a discussion of how determinatives have been treated in the past, comparing that with a survey of how modern linguistics has approached comparable systems in other languages, and finally laying out my own approach to the three signs under study. In the following three case study chapters, I first survey the evidence for how each animal was perceived in the 'real' world, before moving into a detailed analysis of their significance in the script, which is based on a contextually-grounded, diachronic study of the distribution patterns of each of the signs in five genres of text from the Old to the New Kingdom. In a final chapter, I compare my conclusions about the three determinatives, discussing their commonalities and singularities, and relaitng the results of the individual case studies to the workings of the system as a whole. My aim is not only to achieve a better understanding of the particular shades of meaning these three animal signs impart to each of the words they determine, thereby leading to a better understanding of these words, but also to examine the wider conceptual metaphors the three determinatives represent.
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LaBurre, Jennifer. ""Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/125.

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The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of their bestial counterparts it was conventionally meant to highlight some derogatory aspect of that character. Chaucer makes use of the animal-image throughout The Canterbury Tales, especially in "The Knight's Tale," to stress a break in each character from humane reason or to emphasize a lean towards a bestial nature. The degree of this departure is showcased in the ferocity of the animal-image in question and the behavior and nature of the character, i.e. the animals of a more timid nature or neutral standing highlight a much less negative nature than the ferocious predators present in the battle scenes.
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Winch, Lauren. "Metabolism, mythology, magic or metaphor? : animals in the rock art of Thailand." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658567.

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A common feature of many rock art corpora is the inclusion of animals, both naturalistic and fantastical. For a long time it was assumed that animals in the art simply related to actual or desired prey species. In recent decades, however, research has increasingly revealed rock art to be full of subtle nuances, mythological phenomena, multifaceted magic and potency, and metaphorical references to various aspects of society and culture. In line with this burgeoning interest in the multiplicities inherent within rock art, the central aim of this thesis is to examine which animals feature in the rock art of Thailand and why. Evidence outlined in this thesis suggests that the rock art of Thailand was created almost exclusively within the last 4000 years and consists of anthropomorphic figures, wild animal species, domesticated animals, geometrics and boats. This thesis explores the specific social and environmental contexts of rock art in Thailand alongside considerations gleaned from rock art research in other parts of the world, and uses this in the analysis of data gathered during primary fieldwork in May-July 2011. Fieldwork was conducted in two study regions: the southern peninsula and inland mountains. The key conclusion of this research project is that metabolic, mythological, magical and metaphorical considerations all played a part in the inception of prehistoric rock art in Thailand in different and often complimentary ways. Another important deduction is that the notions of personal and collective identity permeate both the inland and peninsula datasets, albeit idiosyncratically manifested through alternative methods of literal and metaphorical representation. Fieldwork findings and secondary sources suggest that the rock art was most likely produced by communities who were predominantly hunter-gatherer-fishers who may have also practiced a certain degree of mixed subsistence strategies. Domesticated animals appear to be absent from the painted record of the peninsula region yet dominate the faunal repertoire of the inland sites; alongside archaeological evidence from the two regions from the period between 5,000-2,000 BP I therefore conclude that the peninsula painting communities had a subsistence economy which continued to be more strongly centred on hunter-gatherer lifeways than their inland counterparts in the face of expanding agricultural practices in Southeast Asia.
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Albergaria, Genezpabla. "Projeção figurativa e expansão categorial no PB: o caso de um frame ‘animal’." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2008. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3801.

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O presente estudo constitui-se como um subprojeto que integra o macro-projeto Construções Superlativas no Português do Brasil – Uma Abordagem Sociocognitiva (MIRANDA 2007) - e tem como objeto de pesquisa o processo de mudança semântica e categorial que, tendo como domínio-fonte o frame de animal (itens lexicais ‘animal’, ‘bicho’, ‘fera’, ‘monstro’ e ‘gigante’), resulta em um frame de escala, como ilustram os exemplos a seguir: Irritado, Animal acaba com treino do Verdão; Skol gelada é o bicho!; Você, fera na cama!; Festival reúne feras do jazz; TV 'monstra' chega ao mercado brasileiro por R$ 299 mil; Zoomp compra quatro grifes e vira gigante da moda. Este trabalho, de viés sociocognitivo, tem como escopo teórico central as bases pré-conceptuais (Categorias de Nível Básico e Esquemas Imagéticos) e conceptuais (Domínios Conceptuais ou Frames, Metáfora e Metonímia) do nosso processo de categorização, ancoradas nos estudos de Lakoff & Johnson (1980,1987, 1999), Fauconnier & Turner (2002), Tomasello (2003), Croft (2004), Fillmore (2007), Talmy (2000); Geeraerts (2007). Dada a relevância do uso lingüístico em nossa agenda investigativa, a Linguística de Corpus (Sardinha 2004; Aluísio e Almeida 2006) se constituiu como a escolha metodológica. Com o intuito de espelhar, de fato, o comportamento de uso dos itens lexicais em foco, nossa base empírica consiste em um corpus específico obtido através de pesquisa na internet, no site de revistas da Editora Abril (ABRIL.COM), no CETENFolha/Folha de São Paulo, no G1 – Portal de Notícias da Globo.com, em blogs e em comunidades de relacionamento do Orkut. O eixo norteador de nossa análise consiste em: (i) Descrever a dimensão semântico-pragmática e formal da rede lexical em foco; (ii) Desvelar a motivação conceptual – esquemas imagéticos e processos metafóricos e metonímicos – dessa rede de modo a compreender os 6 possíveis elos cognitivos que a instituem. Neste sentido, nossa pesquisa apresenta os seguintes resultados: a confirmação em nosso corpus da primeira de nossas hipóteses, qual seja, a de que está em curso um processo de expansão lexical em que os itens lexicais (‘animal’, ‘fera’, ‘bicho’, ‘monstro’, ‘gigante’) que integram o nódulo da rede metafórica do frame ‘animal’ passam a atuar como OPERADORES SEMÂNTICOS DE ESCALA, compondo uma rede polissêmica. Em termos da expansão morfossintática, passamos a ter um padrão duplo: (1) o SN2 (com sentido metafórico) mantém a função de substantivo: o que ocorre em 68,7% das ocorrências analisadas e (2) é sintaticamente reanalisado como um adjetivo, com estatuto de adnominal ou predicativo, como podemos verificar em 31,3% das ocorrências. Os resultados mostram, em síntese, que os processos de mudança semântica dessa rede lexical se fazem de uma maneira mais ostensiva, robusta do que os morfossintáticos. Em termos da motivação conceptual, pudemos apresentar a relevância do esquema imagético de força (Modelo da Dinâmica das Forças) na configuração de um cenário agonístico, perspectivizado pelas construções lexicais em foco. De igual modo, apresentamos a METÁFORA CONCEPTUAL DA GRANDE CADEIA que nos permite compreender de que forma os itens lexicais do frame conceptual de ‘animal’ passam a referenciar seres de outra ordem, como ‘humanos’ (PESSOAS SÃO ANIMAIS) e ‘entidades’ (OBJETOS COMPLEXOS SÃO ANIMAIS).
This study is a subproject which makes part of the macroproject Superlative Constructions of the Brazilian Portuguese – A Sociocognitive Approach (MIRANDA, 2007) – and has as a research object the semantic and categoric change which, having as source domain the frame of animal (lexical items ‘animal’, ‘bicho’, ‘fera’, ‘monstro’ and ‘gigante’), results from a scale frame, as illustrated by the following examples: Irritado, Animal acaba com treino do Verdão; Skol gelada é o bicho!; Você, fera na cama!; Festival reúne feras do jazz; TV 'monstra' chega ao mercado brasileiro por R$ 299 mil; Zoomp compra quatro grifes e vira gigante da moda. This work, of sociocognitivism base, has as a central thoretical scope the preconceptual bases (Basic level categories and image schemas) and conceptual bases (Conceptual Domains or Frames, Metaphor and Metonym) of our categorizing process, anchored on the studies by Lakoff & Johnson (1980,1987, 1999), Fauconnier & Turner (2002), Tomasello (2003), Croft (2004) and Fillmore (2007), Talmy (2000); Geeraerts (2007). Because of the linguistic usage in our investigative purpose, the Corpus Linguistics (Sardinha 2004; Aluísio and Almeida 2006) motivated our methodological choice. Attempting to actually unveil the usage behavior of the lexical items, our empiric base consists of a specific corpus collected through internet researches on: Editora Abril magazine site (ABRIL.COM), CETENFolha/Folha de São Paulo, G1 – Globo.com News website, blogs and on Orkut relationship communities. The main purpose of our analysis is: (i) to describe the semantic-pragmatic and formal dimension of the focused lexical net; (ii) to unveil the conceptual motivation – image schemas and metaphoric / metonymic processes – of this net in order to understand the possible cognitive links which compose it. This way, our research presents the following results: the confirmation in our corpus 8 of our first hypothesis, that is, that there has been a process of lexical expansion in course in which lexical items (‘animal’, ‘fera’, ‘bicho’, ‘monstro’, ‘gigante’) that integrate the nodes of metaphoric net of the frame ‘animal’ turn out to be SEMANTIC OPERATORS OF SCALE, forming a polysemic net. In terms of the morphosyntactic expansion, we tend to have a double standard: (1) the NP2 (with metaphoric meaning) keeps its noun function: present in 68.7% of the analysed occurrences and (2) is syntatically re-evaluated as an adjective, with adnominal or predicative function, as perceived in 31,3% of the occurrences. The results show, in short, that the change processes on the lexical rede happen more ostensively and robusty than the morphosyntactic ones. In terms of the conceptual motivation, we could present the relevance of the image schema of force (force dynamic Model) in the configuration of an agonistic scene, perspectivized by the focused lexical constructions. Moreover, we presented the THE GREAT CHAIN METAPHOR which leads us to figure out how the lexical items of the conceptual frame of ‘animal’ tend to refer to beings of another order, like ‘humanos’ (PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS) and ‘entidades’ (COMPLEX OBJECTS ARE ANIMALS).
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Couturier, Kaijser Vilma. "Metaphorical uses of verbs of animal sounds in Swedish." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148958.

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Animals often act as source domain is metaphorical shifts. In European languages, there are often several lexicalised verbs for specific sounds with a prototypical animal as subject. These verbs of animal sounds and their metaphorical meanings have been studied cross-linguistically, which have made it possible to create a classification of situations that tend to be expressed by animal metaphors. There are many verbs of animal sounds in Swedish, but their metaphorical uses are not investigated. The present study investigates the metaphorical use of verbs of animal sounds in Swedish blog text and news text. The classification is used as a starting point for analysing occurrences of 13 Swedish verbs. The study seeks to answer which situations can be expressed by the Swedish verbs, which different situations can one and the same verb express metaphorically, and how did the typological classification suit the Swedish data? The results showed that the verbs often have human subjects, and different verbs varies in the range of metaphorical uses they possess. Three types of changes were made to the classification to suit the Swedish data: situations were moved, situations were added, and situations were removed.
Djur förekommer ofta som källdomän i metaforer. I europeiska språk finns det ofta många lexikaliserade verb för specifika typer av läten med ett prototypiskt djur som subjekt. Typologiska studier har gjorts på dessa verb för djurläten, och deras metaforiska användningar. Detta har lett till en klassifikationsmodell över mänskliga situationer som ofta uttrycks med metaforisk användning av verb för djurläten. I svenska finns det många sådana verb, men deras metaforiska användningar har inte undersökts. Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka den metaforiska användningen av verb för djurläten i svenska. 13 verb som beskriver ett specifikt läte hos ett visst djur valdes ut. Studiens data var definitioner av verben, hämtade från lexikon, och konkordansrader med verben, hämtade från korpusar av språk från bloggar och nyhetstext. Studien undersöker vilka situationer som kan uttryckas med metaforisk användning av dessa verb, vilka olika användningar ett och samma verb kan uttrycka, samt hur väl den föreslagna klassifikationsmodellen fungerar på svenska. Resultatet visar att verben främst har mänskliga subjekt och att verben varierar i hur många och vilka situationer de kan uttrycka metaforiskt. Ett par ändringar gjordes på klassifikationsmodellen, till exempel lades typen ’talverb’ till, och subtypen ’röstkvalitet’ frigjordes från typen ’fysiologiska ljud’.
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Thorström, Tony. "Aux frontières de l’anthropocentrisme : la présence animale dans les romans de Michel Houellebecq." Licentiate thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för moderna språk, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-283482.

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This dissertation sets out to explore the animal presence in the novels of contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq. Focusing on this often overlooked aspect in the growing number of publications dedicated to Houellebecq’s literary production, this study argues that the presence of animals is central to understanding how his novels are structured around borders between not only animals and humans but also between humans themselves. By pitting animals against humans the novels simultaneously show how these borders are created within the narratives only to be repeatedly broken down and/or transgressed. Whereas in previous research a posthumanvision in Houellebecq’s works has been largely attributed to the theme of a technological surpassing of the human, this study advances the idea that animals constitute an inherent part of Houellebecq’s questioning of an anthropocentric worldview. The first chapter of the thesis, which lays the foundation for the study, explores how descriptions structure two major ways in which animals are present: either as a backdrop setting where the characters, while trying to maintain the border between themselves and animals, are transformed into observers of animals in their natural habitat, or as metaphors used to describe appearances and seemingly unwanted personality traits of some of the characters. The second chapter expands on the idea of a frontier between animals and humans but contrary to the previous chapter it studies the porosity of these borders by showing how humans and animals are depicted and narrated in similar ways. Drawing on the theories of Giorgio Agamben, Dominique Lestel and Tristan Garcia the study concludes by proposing to read Houellebecq’s novels both as a form of life stories relating a common history between animals and humans and as an attempt to highlight the untenable project of maintaining an anthropocentric worldview.
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Colin, Nathalie. "English and Swedish Animal Idioms : A Study of Correspondence and Variation in Content and Expression." Thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Culture and Communication, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-13.

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Idioms are found in every language and learning them is an important aspect of the mastery of a language. The English language is no exception as it contains a large number of idioms, which are extensively used. However, because of their rather rigid structure and quite unpredictable meaning, idioms are often considered difficult to learn. Although little research has been done to date on the nature of idioms as well as how they are used, a better understanding of variations in idioms can nevertheless be acquired by looking at some theories and thoughts about their use and their structure.

The aim of this paper is to examine a number of animal idioms, focusing primarily on English idioms and the similarities and differences found in equivalent Swedish idioms, even when the Swedish idioms do not contain an animal. Two types of studies are presented. In the first one, the English and Swedish animal idioms collected are grouped into four categories. The results of such a categorization show that half of the English animal idioms found have an equivalent in Swedish containing an animal. In the second study, the content, structure, wording, semantics and metaphorical meaning of the animal idioms are analysed and compared. The results indicate that the Swedish animal idioms that correspond to the English animal idioms have, for the most part, the same structures and similar variations in degree of literalness, fixity, manipulation and transformation. Furthermore, the use of metaphor, personification and simile appears to be common both in English and Swedish animal idioms. The role of context and literal and figurative translation are also addressed in this study.

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Books on the topic "Animal metaphors"

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Speaking of animals: A dictionary of animal metaphors. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1995.

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Consumable metaphors: Attitudes towards animals and vegetarianism in nineteenth-century France. Oxford: P. Lang, 2005.

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Foreman, Benjamin A. Animal metaphors and the people of Israel in the book of Jeremiah. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.

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Foreman, Benjamin. Animal Metaphors and the People of Israel in the Book of Jeremiah. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666532580.

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Animal metaphors and the people of Israel in the book of Jeremiah. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.

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Michael, Heries, ed. Tiergestaltigkeit der Göttinnen und Götter zwischen Metapher und Symbol. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Theologie, 2012.

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Rapallo, Umberto. Metafore animali e mondo eroico nel "Cantare di Aneirin". Pisa: Giardini, 1989.

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Animal imagery in the book of Proverbs. Leiden: Brill, 2008.

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T.S. Eliot and the heritage of Africa: The Magus and the Moor as metaphor. New York: P. Lang, 1992.

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Ferrario, Elena. La metafora zoomorfa nel francese e nell'italiano contemporanei. Brescia: Editrice La Scuola, 1990.

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Dufourcq, Annabelle. "Human-animal metaphors." In The Imaginary of Animals, 27–48. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003170709-1.

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Gilebbi, Matteo. "Animal Metaphors, Biopolitics, and the Animal Question." In Thinking Italian Animals, 93–107. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137454775_6.

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in ’t Veld, Laurike. "(In)human Visual Metaphors: The Animal and the Doll." In The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels, 41–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03626-3_2.

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Wokler, Robert. "The Nexus of Animal and Rational: Sociobiology, Language, and the Enlightenment Study of Apes." In Biology as Society, Society as Biology: Metaphors, 81–103. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0673-3_5.

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Charteris-Black, Jonathan. "Animals: Moral Intuition and Moral Reasoning." In Metaphors of Brexit, 269–307. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28768-9_9.

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Coates, Paul. "Masks and Metaphor: Doubles and Animals." In Screening the Face, 89–132. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137012289_4.

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Parry, Catherine. "Ants, Myrmecology and Metaphor." In Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction, 63–110. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55932-2_3.

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Driscoll, Kári. "Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to Metaphor." In Beyond the Human-Animal Divide, 283–305. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-93437-9_14.

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Battistini, Emiliano. "The Human-Animal Relationship and the Musical Metaphor in The Great Animal Orchestra by Bernie Krause." In Biosemiotics, 209–21. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72992-3_15.

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Lönngren, Ann-Sofie. "Metaphor, Metonymy, More-Than-Anthropocentric. The Animal That Therefore I Read (and Follow)." In Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, 37–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39773-9_3.

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Conference papers on the topic "Animal metaphors"

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Handayani, Dwi. "Use of Animal Metaphors in Javanese Language within Tengger Society." In Proceedings of the Fifth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (PRASASTI 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/prasasti-19.2019.20.

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Wijana, I. Dewa Putu. "Metaphors of Turtle Dove Physical Characteristics in a Javanese Community: A Preliminary Study." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.2-1.

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The Turtle dove (Javanese: perkutut) is one of most popular pets of the Javanese people. Here, they aim to have high quality turtle doves, either in the way that it chirps or in the luck that it may bring. The selection process is quite complex and extensive, one method of which is to carefully observe the physical characteristics of the bird. Accordingly, the community of turtle dove fans and experts has become enriched with a variety of turtle dove registers (words, phrases, idioms, etc.), many of which are metaphorical. This paper intends to study the metaphorical expressions used by the Javanese to compare the body characteristics of turtle doves with various natural and mythical realities surrounding the doves. The study will focus on how Javanese people associate the shapes of turtle dove body parts (the target domain) and natural objects used as a comparison (the source domain) for yielding metaphorical names of the turtle dove, either for obtaining a high quality sound or magical powers that the animal can bring to its owner.
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Xie, Tian’ai. "An Analysis of Political Allegory in Animal Farm: from the Perspective of Animal Metaphor." In 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.496.

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Xiang, Zhimin. "A Cognitive Metaphoric Study of English Animal Idioms." In 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-17.2017.140.

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MINYOUNG, Jo. "THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SIMILES IN UZBEK AND KOREAN LANGUAGES AND THE SYMBOLIC MEANING OF ANIMALS USED IN SIMILE EXPRESSIONS." In UZBEKISTAN-KOREA: CURRENT STATE AND PROSPECTS OF COOPERATION. OrientalConferences LTD, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/ocl-01-23.

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This thesis explains the characteristics of the simile concept and application of Uzbek and Korean, and the differences and similarities between the objects used as simile auxiliary ideas in Uzbek and Korean through simile example sentences. Humans have been vividly and efficiently expressing parts and various thoughts that are difficult to speak directly through the method of simile within a limited vocabulary for a long time. In particular, it can be seen that expressing animals, plants, and nature, which have always been together since the beginning of humanity, in relation to simile objects, occurs frequently in everyday life and in literary works. For a long time, many scholars around the world have found that metaphors are indispensable and important tools in human cognitive activity, and in particular, representing animals that are closest to humans is very effective in the way humans communicate.
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Loe, Efron Erwin Yohanis. "Metaphor Compounding in the Dengka Dialect of the Rote Language Found in the Name of Animals and Plants (A generative morphology approach)." In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/icollite-18.2019.3.

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