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Matiychak, Aliona. "Metaphor as a Literary Device of Conceptualizing Reality in Polycodic Fiction." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 101 (July 9, 2020): 191–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2020.101.191.

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The article highlights the problem of metaphorical thinking as a way of conceptualizing reality in Steven Hall’s fiction “The Raw Shark Texts”. The relevance of the study is due to the need to expand the analysis of the communicative features of the literary text with an iconic component. The main goal of the article is to analyze the features of the text polycoding as a form of artistic communication and to find out the role and functions of the metaphor as a means of conceptualizing reality in the polycodic text of the novel. S. Hall makes full use of graphics possibilities in the text of hi
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Crawford, Christopher A., and Igor Juricevic. "Understanding pictorial metaphor in comic book covers: A test of the contextual and structural frameworks." Studies in Comics 11, no. 2 (2020): 341–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/stic_00034_1.

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Conceptual metaphor theory proposes that metaphor is a mental function, rather than solely a literary device. As such, metaphors may be present in any by-product of human cognition, including pictorial art. Crawford and Juricevic previously proposed two heuristic frameworks for the identification and interpretation of metaphor in pictures, which have been shown to be capable of describing how pictorial metaphors are identified and interpreted in the comic book medium. The present study tested artists’ preference for combinations of contextual and structural pictorial information in comic book
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Kocay, Victor. "La Métaphore : modes d'emploi ou « Voici des îles »." Dalhousie French Studies, no. 117 (March 29, 2021): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1076100ar.

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This article attempts to show that metaphors can be used in different ways in literary texts. After a brief discussion on metaphor as a creative linguistic device (Ricoeur), I argue that the meaning and the function of a metaphor in a literary text depend, at least in part, on the intentions of the author. I refer to three different authors. For Proust, metaphor allows for a more accurate representation of reality because it remains close to physical sensations. For Colette, metaphors play a psychological role in that they allow the author to align reality according to a specific aesthetic. An
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Abdulla, Ismail A., and Abbas F. Lutfi. "Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Conceptual Metaphors in Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”." Polytechnic Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 1 (2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.25156/ptjhss.v1n1y2020.pp1-12.

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There has always been a widely held view among literary and linguistic circles that poetic language and naturally occurring language represent two quite different registers; hence, they can by no means be subjected to treatment through the same rout of analysis. Another problem is that poetic language is said to utilize some special figures as meaning construction devices that are called meaning devices, which are purely literary devices and have little value outside literature. This paper aims at analyzing poetic language in terms of the renowned cognitive semantic model known as conceptual m
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Ghumashyan, Varduhi. "The Impact of Metaphor on G.G. Byron’s Linguopoetic Thinking." Armenian Folia Anglistika 16, no. 1 (21) (2020): 90–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2020.16.1.090.

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The issue touched upon in this article refers to the extraordinary use of innumerable metaphors in one of the greatest works by George Gordon Byron – Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Among literary devices it is especially metaphor that is peculiar to Byron’s linguopoetic thinking. The linguostylistic and linguopoetic methods of analysis help to bring out metaphor as an important device for Byron. Through metaphors he portrays his heroes, their feelings and thoughts and makes the reader feel his powerful flight of imagination. The author does not convince the reader to make the resulting points, bu
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Park, So-Jeong. "Musical Metaphors in Chinese Aesthetics." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 47, no. 1-2 (2020): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15406253-0470102006.

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According to the conceptual metaphor theory, a metaphor is not just a rhetorical device but rather a fundamental conceptual framework operating at the level of thinking. When one describes a painting as “musically moving” or “melodious,” one transfers a conceptual framework of music from its typical domain into a new domain where neither musical movement nor melody takes place. In this light, the extensive use of musical metaphors based on qì-dynamics such as “rhythmic vitality” or “literary vitality” for art criticism in early China can be deemed as conceptual mappings between music and other
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Ghanooni, Ali Reza. "A cross-cultural study of metaphoric imagery in Shakespeare’s Macbeth." Translation and Interpreting Studies 9, no. 2 (2014): 239–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tis.9.2.05gha.

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Metaphor is an important literary device, and its translation poses the challenge of switching between different cultural, conceptual, and linguistic frames of reference. This study uses cross-cultural comparison to investigate the metaphoric imagery used in six translations of Shakespeare’s Macbeth into three languages: French, Italian, and Persian. To accomplish the aims of the study, metaphoric images in this play were identified in the source and target texts and then subjected to comparative analysis using Newmark’s categorization of strategies for translating metaphors. After analyzing t
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Low, Graham. "Explaining evolution: the use of animacy in an example of semi-formal science writing." Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 14, no. 2 (2005): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963947005051285.

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Science writers who explain complex ideas to a non-specialist audience make frequent use of metaphor as a help in explaining, but metaphor can carry dangers as well as advantages. This article focuses on the use of one particular type of metaphor, namely animacy metaphor. It takes the form of a detailed case-study of an article in the magazine New Scientist describing a new theory of the evolution of multicellular organisms, the Snowball theory. The article fits closely into the rhetorical pattern found for informal written explanatory texts by Low (1997), with the addition of large numbers of
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Kjär, Uwe. "Die Übersetzung von Verbalmetaphern." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 37, no. 4 (1991): 193–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.37.4.02kja.

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This paper is on metaphors involving verbs such as "Der Himmel weint." (literally, The sky is crying/weeping.") and comprises a comparative translation study. The source material consists of 11 prose works from German post-war literature (authors: Bienek, Boll, Frisch, Grass, Handke, Lenz, Nossack and Walser) and 6 works from Swedish post-war literature (authors: Andersson, Bergman, Delblanc, Gustafsson and Lagerkvist). The empirical investigation builds on a corpus where, for the first time, all the metaphors of a certain type in literary works have been excerpted and treated statistically, t
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Farquhar, Sandy, and Peter Fitzsimons. "Seeing through the metaphor: The OECD quality toolbox for early childhood." Semiotica 2016, no. 212 (2016): 97–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0134.

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AbstractThis paper explores the idea of metaphor as a persuasive device, using as an example a recent OECD publication purporting to be a quality toolbox for early childhood education and care. Leaving aside the problematic notion of quality, we argue that there is a serious problem with the idea of education as something that can be done with a toolbox, particularly in the formative stages of young children’s education. We suggest that the OECD selection of the toolbox as a metaphor is a way of inserting international economic imperatives into local government education policy, in ways that t
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