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Gatambuki Gathigia, Moses, Ruth W. Ndung’u, and Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo. "When romantic love in Gĩkũyũ becomes a human body part." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2, no. 1 (2015): 79–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.2.1.04gat.

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Studies in Cognitive Linguistics show that metaphors are fundamental to the structuring of people’s thought and language (Sweetser 1990; Kövecses 2009). It is against this backdrop that this study discusses human body parts as metaphors of conceptualizing love in Gĩkũyũ. To achieve this objective, an interview schedule was administered to 48 respondents of different gender by the researcher assisted by four research assistants. The Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and the main principles of the Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije Universiteit (MIPVU) (see Steen et al. 2010) were used in th

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Mitsiaki, Maria. "INVESTIGATING METAPHOR IN MODERN GREEK INTERNET MEMES:." Revista Brasileira de Alfabetização, no. 12 (July 27, 2020): 73–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.47249/rba.2020.v.432.

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    Internet memes are a quite recent web-genre that makes use of metaphorical conceptualizations and humor. This paper draws on data from humorous metaphors in a small corpus of Greek memes posted on Facebook. The analysis suggests that common conventional metaphors underlie memes, such as emotions are forces, human body is a machine, and people are animals; however, several novel conceptualizations arise, fused into conceptual blends: coronavirus is war, low-paid is diseased, natural forces are people. The findings are interpreted in the light of the cognitive theory

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Engström, Robin. "The body politic of independent Scotland." Metaphor and the Social World 8, no. 2 (2018): 184–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.17009.eng.

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Abstract The creation of national personifications is a political act that informs us about ideological and cognitive strategies underpinning nation-building. Many European nations are associated with national personifications, but Scotland stands out by not having a tradition of representing the nation in this way. The 2014 independence referendum began to change that, and national personifications featured, not only in the main pro-independence campaign material, but in the visual profile of many new, radical organizations. These personifications also raise questions about the use of metapho

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Keshvari, Seyyed Ali, and Razieh Eslamieh. "TRANSLATION ANALYSIS OF BODY-RELATED METAPHORS IN THE HOLY KORAN BY YUSUF ALI, MARMADUKE PICKTHAL, AND THOMAS IRVING." Indonesian EFL Journal 3, no. 1 (2017): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/ieflj.v3i1.653.

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The present study is a Corpus-based research which analyzes the translation of Body-Related Metaphors in the Holy Koran by Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthal and Thomas Irving, within the framework of Newmark�s procedures of metaphor translation. The data analyzed consists of a sample of 107 words and phrases which are categorized as metaphors of ear, eye, face, and hand. Out of the seven procedures proposed by Newmark for translating metaphors, the translators applied five procedures. None of the translators applied Newmark�s fourth or sixth procedure and no new procedure was observed. The results

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Sterling, Gregory E. "The Body as Metaphor." Novum Testamentum 61, no. 1 (2019): 26–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341622.

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AbstractThis essay considers Philo of Alexandria’s metaphor in which he used the dual nature of embodied existence (body and soul) to argue that both literal and allegorical readings are legitimate. It examines the metaphor in the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CTM) developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson that argues that experience is the key to meaning. A metaphor occurs when we apply a pattern that we have observed in one setting (gestalt) to another. In this case, Philo has drawn on a Platonic/Stoic understanding of being human and applied it to contested hermeneutics within

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ALOUSQUE, ISABEL NEGRO. "Verbo-pictorial metaphor in French advertising." Journal of French Language Studies 24, no. 2 (2013): 155–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269513000045.

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ABSTRACTIn the last thirty years the development of the Cognitive Metaphor Theory (e.g. Lakoff, 1987, 2006; Lakoff and Johnson, 1999) has led to vast research into metaphor. The study of linguistic metaphor was followed by a body of work into pictorial metaphor (Forceville, 1994, 1996) and multimodal metaphor (Forceville, 2007, 2008, 2009). In the present contribution we explore the use of verbo-pictorial metaphors in advertising through a corpus of French print ads. Starting from the claim that adverts serve a persuasive purpose, it will be argued that multimodal metaphor contributes to that

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Mey, Jacob L. "Metaphors and activity." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 22, spe (2006): 45–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502006000300005.

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This paper considers metaphor as a kind of activity in the spirit of Levinson's 'Activity Types' or of Mey's 'Pragmatic Acts'. Contrary to what has been suggested in the literature, metaphors neither belong exclusively to the domain of abstract reasoning (such as by analogy; Max Black), nor are they merely linguistic and/or psychological processes (of cognition; George Lakoff). Metaphors do not originate and live in the brain only, neither do they exclusively belong to some conceptual domain from which they can establish relations to other domains, or blend with them. Metaphors are primarily p

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Mezghani, Miriam. "A Conceptual Metaphor Account of Desdemona: Body, Emotions, Ethics." English Language and Literature Studies 11, no. 2 (2021): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v11n2p20.

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This paper aims to delve into Desdemona&rsquo;s mind in Shakespeare&rsquo;s Othello. In this paper, Desdemona&rsquo;s utterances are perused through conceptual metaphor analysis. The objective of this study is to disclose Desdemona&rsquo;s cognitive complexity, and conceptual metaphor analysis offers an opportunity to enter Desdemona&rsquo;s cognitive world notwithstanding the degradation of her speech. These conceptual metaphors will follow three major axes of scrutiny: body, emotions, and ethics. The findings of this paper demonstrate that a cognitive exploration of the c

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Di, Fangfang. "The Metaphorical Interpretation of English and Chinese Body-part Idioms Based on Relevance Theory." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12, no. 5 (2021): 837–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1205.24.

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As a special language coding way and language phenomenon, metaphor is an important form when humans use language in communication. However, metaphorical mappings are not arbitrary. They are based on our physical experience of the world around us. Idioms are the crystallization of human language and culture and play an important role in human communication. The idiomatic meaning is not simply the sum of the lexical meanings, but often the metaphorical meaning extended from the literal meaning. The paper is based on the relevance theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1995), adopts the methods o

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Heinze, Ulrich. "Pictorial body metaphors in Japanese advertising." Language and Dialogue 4, no. 3 (2014): 425–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.4.3.04hei.

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This article explores the use of the body metaphor as a core communicative tool in times of economic crisis and national indebtedness, and the ways in which it thwarts political dialogue. It first traces the body metaphor in the manga version of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, following Andreas Musolff’s theory of the ‘body politic’ in Nazi Germany. It then argues that the economic resurrection, or ‘miracles’, in postwar Germany and Japan replaced the discourse of the body nation with that of the body economy. Charles Forceville has shown how advertising uses pictorial metaphors to depict commodities and

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Ivie, Stanley D. "Metaphor, Paradigm, and Education." Articles 52, no. 1 (2017): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1040803ar.

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Metaphor is a critical tool for thought. Lying at the heart of every systematic body of knowledge are three root metaphors — mechanism, organism, and mind. Historically, schools of philosophy — realism, naturalism, and idealism — have grown up around these metaphors. The root metaphors and their corresponding philosophies provide the paradigms underlying different exemplars of education. To illustrate how metaphors, paradigms, and exemplars all shape educational thought, the works of three educators — Hunter, Piaget, and Bruner — have been selected.

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Musolff, Andreas. "Cross-cultural variation in deliberate metaphor interpretation." Metaphor and the Social World 6, no. 2 (2016): 205–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.6.2.02mus.

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The distinction between ‘deliberate’ and ‘non deliberate’ metaphors has been developed within a five-step framework (Steen) of metaphor production. Deliberate metaphors invite the addressee to pay special attention to their cross-domain structure mapping rather than focusing primarily on the topical proposition. This paper presents results of a pilot survey eliciting interpretations for the metaphors a nation is a body/a nation is a person from an international sample of respondents in 10 different countries. ESL/EFL users from diverse cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds were asked to apply

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Rumble, Ben. "Body memory, metaphor and movement." Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy 9, no. 1 (2013): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2013.862569.

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Porteous, J. Douglas. "BODYSCAPE: THE BODY-LANDSCAPE METAPHOR." Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien 30, no. 1 (1986): 2–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.1986.tb01020.x.

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Yúdice, George. "Feeding the transcendent body." Tropelías: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, no. 1 (April 27, 2018): 219–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.199012728.

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"A language which repeats no other speech, no other Promise, but postpones death indefinetely by ceaselessly opening a space where it is always the analogue of itself". This is Foucault's account of an aesthetics of transcendence, where transcendence is defined as the experience of infinìty (call ìt mysticism, the sublime, or poststructuralìst écriture) withìn a medium that feeds on itself. This essay examines eating and the self-consuming body as the most basic metaphors of the aesthetic process that Foucault describes and asks whether they have not lost their relevance for transcendence in a

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Martins, Helena. "Wittgenstein, the body, its metaphors." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 26, spe (2010): 479–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502010000300005.

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Contemporary theories of metaphor often give the body a foundational status, by claiming that it provides the universal ground upon which imagination engenders figurative thought. This paper goes against this idea, discussing the relationship between the body and metaphor from a non foundationalist point of view. Taking a Wittgensteinean stance on metaphor and on the body, it aims to provide elements to rethink the issue, exploring in particular the path open by the Austrian philosopher in his critique of traditional mental/ physical, inner/outer dichotomies.

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Odebunmi, Akin. "Ideology and body part metaphors in Nigerian English." Review of Cognitive Linguistics 8, no. 2 (2010): 272–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rcl.8.2.02ode.

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Studies on Nigerian English (NE) have largely focused on the variation of NE from Standard English. Few of these have investigated metaphors in NE and none, to the best of my knowledge, has worked on ideology and metaphor. This paper fills this gap by concentrating only on body part metaphors. Metaphors related to sexual organs were sourced from Nigerian university students through oral and written interviews. Insights for analysis were drawn centrally from the theory of embodiment and critical discourse analysis. Fourteen sexual organ metaphors, which relate to two major ideological issues: t

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Jacobsen, Anders-Christian. "The nature, function, and destiny of the human body—Origen’s interpretation of 1 Cor 15." Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 23, no. 1 (2019): 36–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/zac-2019-0003.

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Abstract In this article, I will investigate Origen’s use of two metaphors: The seed metaphor and the clothing metaphor. Both metaphors are found in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, which Origen uses as his biblical foundation in the passage from On First Principles that will be analyzed in this article. My focus will be on how Origen understands the nature, the function, and the destiny of human beings and especially of human bodies. According to Origen, the nature of the human body is changeable and unstable. This is because the bodily matter has merely been added to the rational bein

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Володимир Хома. "КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНА МЕТАФОРА ЯК ЗАСІБ РЕАЛІЗАЦІЇ КОНЦЕПТУ SELF-ALIENATION / САМОВІДЧУЖЕННЯ В АНГЛОМОВНОМУ НАУКОВО-ФАНТАСТИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ". World Science 3, № 1(53) (2020): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_ws/31012020/6908.

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    The article deals with the investigation of conceptual metaphors as a means of realizing SELF-ALIENATION concept in the English science fiction. The study is based on the conceptual metaphor theory which states that metaphors incorporate thought, language and speech (Lakoff &Johnson, 2003). Conceptual metaphor modelling appears to be productive to analyze the structure of metaphors, since it is based on the interrelation between source and target domains and their mapping. SELF-ALIENATION concept is characterized by the range of conceptual metaphor models, among

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Sabernig, Katharina. "Metaphors in the Tibetan Explanatory Tantra." Religions 10, no. 6 (2019): 346. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10060346.

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The development of medical theories and concepts is not isolated from the societal “Zeitgeist” of any medical culture. Depending on the purpose and the audience addressed, different metaphors are used to explain different medical content. Doubtlessly, Tibetan medicine is associated with Tibetan Buddhism and various medical topics are linked to Buddhist knowledge. In addition to the religious link, medical texts and terms also make use of nomadic or even military metaphor. In anatomical language, metaphor and metonym are usually based on visual or morphological similarities. In the case of phys

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Rasmussen, Claire, and Michael Brown. "The Body Politic as Spatial Metaphor." Citizenship Studies 9, no. 5 (2005): 469–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13621020500301254.

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Tay, Dennis. "Exploring the Metaphor–Body–Psychotherapy Relationship." Metaphor and Symbol 32, no. 3 (2017): 178–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2017.1338021.

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Baker, C. "The Body as Medium and Metaphor." French Studies 63, no. 4 (2009): 507–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fs/knp144.

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Pressley, Cindy L., and Michael E. Noel. "Emotional labor as carnivalesque behavior: Avoiding administrative evil in the public space." International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior 17, no. 2 (2017): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijotb-17-02-2014-b003.

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Metaphors are used a great deal in theory but are not always fully explained. This paper expands on the carnival metaphor used by Boje (2001) by clarifying the type of carnival the metaphor describes, in this case the sideshow carnival. The sideshow carnival metaphor helps to explain how emotional labor can be used to avoid situations of administrative evil that have been partially caused by the separation of mind/body of public servants operating in public space. The authors of this article illustrate the application of the sideshow carnival metaphor by showing how emergency professionals in

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Denroche, Charles. "Text metaphtonymy." Metaphor and the Social World 8, no. 1 (2018): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.16011.den.

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Abstract This article starts by looking at the various ways metonymic and metaphoric thinking, as independent phenomena, organize text at discourse level. The literature on metaphor in discourse is classified under three broad categories, ‘metaphor clusters’, ‘metaphor chains’ and ‘extended metaphor’, while the less extensive body of research on metonymy in discourse is analyzed into parallel categories, ‘metonymy clusters’, ‘metonymy chains’ and ‘extended metonymy’. The article goes on to look at the ways in which metonymy-in-discourse and metaphor-in-discourse phenomena combine in making mea

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Musolff, Andreas. "Metaphors: Sources for intercultural misunderstanding?" International Journal of Language and Culture 1, no. 1 (2014): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.1.1.03mus.

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Over the last two decades, questions of languages’ cultural specificity, diversity, and of linguistic universalism versus relativism, have increasingly been applied to the study of metaphor in analyses that take data from a wide range of languages into account. After reviewing existing research on cross-cultural metaphor variation, this paper focuses on the phenomenon of ‘false-friend metaphors,’ i.e., seemingly identical mappings which reveal hidden culture-specific differences when used in intercultural communication and in contrastive analysis. Examples of this phenomenon are drawn (1) from

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Pelosi, Ana Cristina, João Paulo Rodrigues Lima, and Pedro Henrique Sousa da Silva. "Metaphor as a dynamic complex emergence an analysis of the discourse of violence victims." Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa Série Ensaios 2, no. 35 (2019): 57–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5752/p.2358-3231.2019n35p57-73.

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Metaphor is here approached as a complex emergence which results from many internal and external factors such as those of a bio-psychological nature among others. Based on an embodied view which assumes that cognition results from "structural couplings that bring forth a world" (VARELA; THOMPSON; ROSCH,1993); it is assumed that socio-culturally shared beliefs, values and attitudes, individuals' life history, their affective and psychological states, besides embodied factors interact dynamically to cause metaphor emergencies to occur. Such metaphors might incorporate verbal language, gestures,

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James, Elaine. "“The Plowers Plowed”: The Violated Body in Psalm 129." Biblical Interpretation 25, no. 2 (2017): 172–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00250a02.

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Psalm 129 employs the metaphor of plowing the body. This metaphor is typically interpreted in light of the metaphor of yoked oxen common in other biblical texts. This paper considers an extension of the metaphor to include sexual violence. In light of the convergent uses in the metaphor of “plowing” in ancient texts to refer to both militarized violence and sexuality, “plowing the body” in Psalm 129 also has a nuance of sexual violence. This operates by analogy between the body of the victim and the land. This analogy provides for a coherent reading of the poem, Psalm 129, which employs agricu

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Weiss, Sonja. "Cloud and Clothe : Hildegard of Bingen's metaphors of the fall of the human soul." Acta Neophilologica 49, no. 1-2 (2016): 5–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.49.1-2.5-18.

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The paper examines Hildegard's use of metaphors in her visions of the human fall, and the way she combined the biblical motif of Original Sin with the philosophical question of a soul's embodiment, particularly in her moral play, Ordo virtutum, but also in her medical and visionary writings. The metaphor of the cloud sometimes blends with the metaphor of clothing (as in, "to clothe"), since the corporeal vestment of the soul before the Fall is said to resemble a cloud of light. Both metaphors are present in Hildegard's other works, particularly the image of the cloud, which is frequently used

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Musolff, Andreas. "Metaphor in political dialogue." Language and Dialogue 1, no. 2 (2011): 191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ld.1.2.02mus.

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Metaphor and other figurative uses of language play a central role in political dialogue on account of their semantic, pragmatic and textual ‘added value’ effects: they provide an opportunity to introduce new thematic aspects, increase the textual coherence of the dialogue contributions and provide warrants for (analogical) conclusions. One of the oldest examples of metaphor use in political dialogue is the so-called fable of the belly, which tells the story of a dispute between the seemingly ‘lazy’ stomach/ruler and the more ‘active’ body members/citizens over the right to receive food. One o

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ÖZÇALIŞKAN, ŞEYDA. "On learning to draw the distinction between physical and metaphorical motion: is metaphor an early emerging cognitive and linguistic capacity?" Journal of Child Language 32, no. 2 (2005): 291–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305000905006884.

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Situated within the framework of the conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), this study investigated young children's understanding of metaphorical extensions of spatial motion. Metaphor was defined as a conceptual-linguistic mapping between a source and a target domain. The study focused on metaphors that are structured by the source domain of motion in space (e.g. time flies by, ideas pass through one's mind, sickness crawls through one's body). The study investigated whether metaphor comprehension varied by the age of the participant, target domain of the metaphorical mappi

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Silberman-Deihl, Linni J., and Barry R. Komisaruk. "Treating psychogenic somatic disorders through body metaphor." American Journal of Dance Therapy 8, no. 1 (1985): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02251440.

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Colombetti, Giovanna, Dylan Trigg, and Susanne Ravn. "Book review: Body memory, metaphor and movement." Memory Studies 7, no. 3 (2014): 393–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698014530627.

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Kennedy, John M., and John Vervaeke. "Metaphor and knowledge attained via the body." Philosophical Psychology 6, no. 4 (1993): 407–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09515089308573100.

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Al-Ramahi, Ra'ed Awad. "Conventionalized Metaphors in Jordanian Colloquial Arabic: Case Study: Metaphors on Body Parts." International Journal of Linguistics 8, no. 5 (2016): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v8i5.10066.

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<p class="1"><span lang="X-NONE">Jordanian colloquial Arabic is rich with conventionalized metaphorical expressions. Indeed, these expressions make a high percentage in the daily speech of Jordanians. Though these expressions are metaphorically structured, their metaphorical sense has been lost for their wide literal use. This study aims at bringing an analysis to metaphors of body parts, which have become routinely used expressions in Jordanian colloquial Arabic. In addition, the study explores the impact of such metaphors on the effectiveness of social communication. The study is

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Bryan, Joseph D. "Beyond Metaphor." Contributions to the History of Concepts 15, no. 2 (2020): 29–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/choc.2020.150203.

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Body-politic metaphors served historically as figurative vehicles to transmit assorted socio-political messages. Through an examination of the metaphors la mollesse (softness) and Adam Smith’s impartial spectator, this article will show that the language of eighteenth-century French and British writers was not simply heuristic or metaphorical. Contemporaries reacted to the growth of commerce and luxury, and the concomitant creation of new public spaces and forms of social interaction, by arguing that the corporeal mediated the social. I want to introduce the concept of corporeal sociability: c

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Jimenez, Tyler, Jamie Arndt, and Mark J. Landau. "Walls block waves: Using an inundation metaphor of immigration predicts support for a border wall." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 9, no. 1 (2021): 159–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.6383.

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From early 20th century headlines to presidential tweets, immigration is described frequently in terms of waves, floods, and tides. Although usage of this inundation metaphor has been widely documented, its potential influence on immigration attitudes has not been assessed empirically. Building from conceptual metaphor theory’s claim that abstract ideas can be grounded in simpler, concrete concepts, we hypothesized that using the inundation metaphor to understand immigration contributes to support for a U.S.—Mexico border wall as a figurative means to block immigrants. Accordingly, social medi

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Gamberini, Andrea. "The Body Politic Metaphor in Communal and Post-Communal Italy – Some Remarks on the Case of Lombardy." Early Science and Medicine 25, no. 1 (2020): 8–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733823-00251p02.

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Abstract This paper uses the body politic metaphor to explore the dialectic of power between different political players in communal and post-communal Lombardy. On the one hand, notions of corporeal links, drawing upon an ancient and venerable tradition, were key strands of public debate on state formation in the Late Middle Ages. On the other hand, there were distinctively communal and post-communal discourses based upon the body politic metaphor. My purpose is to investigate all of these aspects through analysis of the so-called “pragmatic writings” (such as letters, decrees, notarial deeds)

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El Refaie, Elisabeth. "Appearances and dis/dys-appearances." Metaphor and the Social World 4, no. 1 (2014): 109–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.4.1.08ref.

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This article draws on phenomenological and sociological notions of the ‘lived’ body in order to develop a dynamic perspective on embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory. My main argument is that even our most basic sensorimotor experiences are more complex, fluid, and more deeply imbued with socio-cultural meanings than many metaphor scholars assume. While our conscious awareness is ordinarily directed towards the world, making our physical actions and perceptions appear to be natural and straightforward, at times of dysfunction, such as illness and disability, the body suddenly seizes our at

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Huo, Mingjie, and Jiaxuan Chen. "On Embodiment of Predicative Metaphor: A Case of English Body-action Verbs." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 9 (2021): 1114–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1109.19.

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This paper presents an analysis of embodiment of predicative metaphor which is an important topic in cognitive linguistic study. Previous researches are mainly about the identification, classification and construal of predicative metaphor, while its cognitive motivation has not been discussed. Based on the conceptual metaphor theory and embodied philosophy, the cognitive motivation of the metaphorical usage of English body-action verbs is discussed. It is concluded that the metaphorical usage of English body-action verbs arises from the embodied experience. Concepts related to human body are p

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Vysotska, Natalia. "Monarch’s Multiple Bodies: Implementing Body Politic Metaphor on Present-Day North American Stages." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 101 (July 9, 2020): 163–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2020.101.163.

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The paper seeks to explore the strategies instrumental for the implementation of the body politic metaphor that had been active in Western culture since classical antiquity in the plays authored by present-day North American dramatists (Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, USA, 2010, and Timothy Findley’s Elizabeth Rex, Canada, 2000). Drawing upon the concept of the “king’s two bodies” (E. Plowden, E. Кantorowicz, М. Аxton, А. Мusolff, L. Montrose and other New Historicists), the author sets out to demonstrate that in S. Ruhl’s dramatic cycle the metaphor serves to indicate the inextricable links betwee

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Wright, Jessica. "The Brain as Treasury and as Aqueduct." Studies in Late Antiquity 2, no. 4 (2018): 542–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sla.2018.2.4.542.

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In late antique theological texts, metaphors of the brain were useful tools for talking about forms of governance: cosmic, political, and domestic; failed and successful; interior discipline and social control. These metaphors were grounded in a common philosophical analogy between the body and the city, and were also supported by the ancient medical concept of the brain as the source of the sensory and motor nerves. Often the brain was imagined as a monarch or civic official, governing the body from the head as from an acropolis or royal house. This article examines two unconventional metapho

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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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Das, Jareh. "Illness as Metaphor." Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2019, no. 45 (2019): 88–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7916892.

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The late British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98) developed a unique vocabulary critiquing wider representations of the black male body that extended beyond his status as a person living with sickle cell disease to the lives of others with a shared racial background. Critical yet full of wit, Rodney was, until his death in 1998 from complications related to sickle cell disease, one of the most compelling artists to come out of the Black Arts Movement of 1980s Britain. From X-rays of his cells to tiny sculptures made from his own skin, Rodney created conceptual self-portraits of his life as a you

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Agyekum, Kofi. "Metaphors of Anger in Akan." International Journal of Language and Culture 2, no. 1 (2015): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.2.1.04agy.

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This paper addresses the semantic shifts, extensions, semantic patterns, and pragmatic nature of the metaphor of anger and its usage in different contexts. It looks at the conceptual relationship between the two words akoma, “heart” and bo, “chest,” and how they have been lexicalized in the Akan language to express anger. The paper concentrates on fossilized metaphorical expressions relying on the conceptual metaphor frameworks of Lakoff and Johnson (1980). I will discuss the body parts akoma and bo in terms of their physical, semantic, metaphoric, and cognitive representations. The data are t

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Rosato, Jennifer. "Woman as Vulnerable Self: The Trope of Maternity in Levinas's Otherwise Than Being." Hypatia 27, no. 2 (2012): 348–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2011.01189.x.

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Much due criticism has been directed at Levinas's images of the feminine and “the Woman” in Time and the Other and Totality and Infinity, but less attention has been paid to the metaphor of maternity and the maternal body that Levinas employs in Otherwise Than Being. This metaphor should be of interest, however, because here we find an instance in which Levinas uses a female image without in any way seeming to exclude women from full ethical selfhood.In the first three sections of this paper I explain how maternity functions in Otherwise Than Being. I argue that maternity is used as (1) an ima

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Rooney, Phyllis. "Gendered Reason: Sex Metaphor and Conceptions of Reason." Hypatia 6, no. 2 (1991): 77–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb01394.x.

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Reason has regularly been portrayed and understood in terms of images and metaphors that involve the exclusion or denigration of some element—body, passion, nature, instinct—that is cast as “feminine.” Drawing upon philosophical insight into metaphor, I examine the impact of this gendering of reason. I argue that our conceptions of mind, reason, unreason, female, and male have been distorted. The politics of “rational” discourse has been set up in ways that still subtly but powerfully inhibit the voice and agency of women.

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Kneebone, Roger, Fleur Oakes, and Colin Bicknell. "Reframing surgical simulation: the textile body as metaphor." Lancet 393, no. 10166 (2019): 22–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)33173-8.

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Wilson, Nicole L., and Raymond W. Gibbs. "Real and Imagined Body Movement Primes Metaphor Comprehension." Cognitive Science 31, no. 4 (2007): 721–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15326900701399962.

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Paradis, E., A. Kuper, and R. K. Reznick. "Body fat as metaphor: from harmful to helpful." Canadian Medical Association Journal 185, no. 2 (2012): 152–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120100.

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