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Pisarska, Alicja. Creativity of translators: The translation of metaphorical expressions in non-literary texts. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 1989.

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Strugielska, Ariadna. Towards an integrated conceptual model of metaphorical linguistic expressions in English: W kierunku zintegrowanego modelu konceptualnego metaforycznych wyrażen językowych w języku angielskim. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2012.

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1953-, Hicks Jean Wolph, and Davis Marcia 1956-, eds. Metaphorical ways of knowing: The imaginative nature of thought and expression. National Council of Teachers of English, 1997.

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Dessì, Giuseppe. Diari 1952-1962. Edited by Francesca Nencioni and Franca Linari. Firenze University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-004-4.

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In these private notes, the quest for the self appears like a journey of dual metaphorical significance through the intricate weft of the pages and the labyrinth of life. The Diari 1952-1962 of Giuseppe Dessí are presented here in Franca Linari's meticulous transcription accompanied by an introduction and an attentive commentary by Francesca Nencioni. Following the previous volumes, which made it possible to reconstruct the history of his youthful education and the productions of his early maturity, this one now reveals significant changes in the writer's life. A new female figure (Luisa) acco

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Xia, Chris Mengying. Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions in a Second Language: Performance by Chinese Learners of English. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

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Xia, Chris Mengying. Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions in a Second Language: Performance by Chinese Learners of English. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.

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Kowalewski, Hubert. Snakes, Leaves, and Poisoned Arrows. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636647.003.0009.

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A paradox about emotions is that although we experience them directly through our minds and bodies, they appear to be vague and elusive when we try to talk about them. Consequently, most of the language used to speak about emotions is metaphorical. This observation is consonant with cognitive linguistics, which views metaphors as conceptual rather than purely verbal mechanisms. Emotions are one of the central matters of Buddhist philosophy, and language used to talk about them abounds in conceptual metaphors. This article inspects metaphorical expressions used in the canonical collection of ea

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Braunmuller, A. R. Shakespeare’s Late Style. Edited by Jonathan Post. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199607747.013.0025.

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‘Shakespeare’s Late Style’ explores stylistic aspects of Shakespeare’s dramatic verse (and a little of the prose) in plays composed after Hamlet. It suggests that Dryden was among the first to recognize that Shakespeare’s style changed over time and seems to have thought that the style became less ‘pestered’ with ‘figurative expressions’ as the career advanced. Like most early commentators, however, Dryden left little detailed analysis to support his larger, often metaphorical, claims. The purpose of this chapter is to identify the features of Shakespeare’s style in the second half of his prof

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Heim, Maria. The Buddha’s Omniscience and the Immeasurability of Scripture. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190906658.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 examines the Pali commentarial doctrine of the Buddha’s omniscience and how the commentarial texts define the corpus of material called “buddhavacana,” that is, the Buddha’s words. It explores how the commentaries expanded and interpreted the idea that the Buddha “knew all,” an idea only incipiently present in the canonical sources. The chapter suggests that related to the idea of omniscience is the idea that the Buddha’s words are to be taken as “immeasurable,” and it explores the claims and metaphorical expressions in which this immeasurability is elaborated. The idea that scriptur

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Metaphorically speaking: A dictionary of 3,800 picturesque idiomatic expressions. Warner Books, 1992.

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Gao, Xiuping, and Chun Lan. Buddhist Metaphors in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190636647.003.0010.

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This is a study of the metaphorical expressions in the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, with a special emphasis on five concepts, SPACE, TIME, LIFE, BUDDHIST PRACTICE and EMPTINESS. It is found that the Buddhist SPACE is AN UNSUBSTANTIAL EMPTINESS, structured along ten directions and filled with an immeasurable number of dusts, which in turn constitute an immeasurable number of SHI-JIE (WORLD) on four different levels. The Buddhist TIME follows the root TIME-AS-SPACE metaphor. The Buddhist LIFE, constrained along both the temporal dimension and t

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Historical Reality or Metaphoric Expression?: Culturally Formed Contrasts in Karl Florenz' and Iida Takesato's Interpretations of Japanese Mythology. Lit Verlag, 2001.

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Huber, Judith. Motion and the English Verb. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190657802.001.0001.

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This book is a study of how motion is expressed in medieval English. It provides extensive inventories of verbs used in intransitive motion meanings in Old and Middle English and discusses these in terms of the manner-salience of early English. It shows that also several non-motion verbs can receive contextual motion meanings through their use in the intransitive motion construction. In addition to this type-based analysis, the book also focuses on which verbs and structures are frequent in talking about motion: It analyses motion expression in selected Old and Middle English texts, showing th

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Okasha, Samir. Agential Thinking and its Rationale. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815082.003.0002.

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Evolutionary biologists often use the language of intentional psychology in an extended or metaphorical sense. This is a symptom of agential thinking, the practice of invoking concepts such as interests, goals, and strategies in evolutionary analysis. Agential thinking comes in two types. In type 1, the agent with the goal is an evolved entity, typically an individual organism. In type 2, the agent is the evolutionary process itself, often personified as ‘mother nature’. Agential thinking of type 2 is misleading. That of type 1 is a valid expression of adaptationist assumptions, but it relies

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O'Bryan, Robin, and Felicia Else. Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463728850.

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Not since Edward Wood’s Giants and Dwarfs published in 1868 has the subject been the focus of a scholarly study in English. Treating the topic afresh, this volume offers new insights into the vogue for giants and dwarfs that flourished in late-medieval and early modern Europe. From chapters dealing with the real dwarfs and giants in the royal and princely courts, to the imaginary giants and dwarfs that figured in the crafting of nationalistic and ancestral traditions, to giants and dwarfs used as metaphorical expression, scholars discuss their role in art, literature, and ephemeral display. So

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Gray, Jennifer. Culinary Diplomacy’s Role in the Immigrant Experience. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666989724.

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In Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women, the emergent field of literary food studies engages with international diplomacy studies to establish books with recipes as tools of culinary diplomacy. Foundational to the argument is culinary diplomacy scholar Sam Chapple-Sokol’s concept of Citizen Culinary Diplomacy which endorses public events that promote understanding of cultures and people. However, this study challenges that definition and argues that culinary fiction and memoirs are shared interactive experiences between the author,

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Phillips, Victoria. Martha Graham's Cold War. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190610364.001.0001.

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“I am not a propagandist,” declared the matriarch of American modern dance, Martha Graham, while on her State Department–funded tour in 1955. Graham’s claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to more than thirty nations in Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H. W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field she was titled the “Picasso of modern dance,” and in later years “Forever Modern,” Graham was known to procla

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