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Kupferberg, ʻIrit. Troubled talk: Metaphorical negotiation in problem discourse. Mouton de Gruyter, 2005.

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Bavaeva, Ol'ga. Metaphorical parallels of the neutral nomination "man" in modern English. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1858259.

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The monograph is devoted to a multidimensional analysis of metaphor in modern English as a parallel nomination that exists along with a neutral equivalent denoting a person. The problem of determining the essence of metaphorical names and their role in the language has attracted the attention of many foreign and domestic linguists on the material of various languages, but until now the fact of the parallel existence of metaphors and neutral nominations has not been emphasized. The research is in line with modern problems of linguistics related to the relationship of language, thinking an

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Backman, Gunnar. Meaning by metaphor: An exploration of metaphor with a metaphoric reading of two short stories by Stephen Crane. Ubsaliensis Academiae, 1991.

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audAx, in Periculus. The Meaning of a Metaphorical Life Understood Through Identity and Remembrances. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

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Metaphor and its moorings: Studies in the grounding of metaphorical meaning. Peter Lang, 2007.

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in Periculus in Periculus AudAx. Connaître Sacral olo : The Meaning of a Metaphorical Life Companion: The Censored Edition. AuthorHouse, 2018.

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David, Green, and Irit Kupfreberg. Troubled Talk: Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse (Language, Power, and Social Process) (Language, Power, and Social Process). Mouton de Gruyter, 2005.

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David, Green, and Irit Kupfreberg. Troubled Talk: Metaphorical Negotiation in Problem Discourse (Language, Power, and Social Process Series) (Language, Power, and Social Process Series). Mouton de Gruyter, 2005.

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Metaphorical Meanings of the Color Term Black. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2014.

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Nogales, Patti, and Patti D. Nogales. Metaphorically Speaking. Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999.

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Nogales, Patti, and Patti D. Nogales. Metaphorically Speaking. Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1999.

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Kemske, Bonnie. Kintsugi. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781789942743.

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A stunning book on kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with precious metals to highlight its history beautifully. A broken pot is made whole again, and within its golden repair we see a world of meaning. Kintsugi is the art of embracing imperfection. In Western cultures, the aim of repair has been to make the broken item ‘as good as new’. Kintsugi on the other hand, is a Japanese art that leaves an obvious repair – one that may appear fragile, but which actually makes the restored ceramic piece stronger, more beautiful, and more valuable than before. Leaving clear, bold, vis

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Tzohar, Roy. A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.001.0001.

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This book is about what metaphors mean and do within Buddhist texts. More specifically, it is about the fundamental Buddhist ambivalence toward language, which is seen as obstructive and yet necessary for liberation, as well as the ingenious response to this tension that one Buddhist philosophical school—the early Indian Yogācāra (3rd–6th century CE)—proposed by arguing that all language use is in fact metaphorical (upacāra). Exploring the profound implications of this claim, the book presents the full-fledged Yogācāra theory of meaning—one that is not merely linguistic, but also perceptual.De

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Cameron, Allan. Visceral Screens. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419192.001.0001.

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Horror cinema grants bodies and images a precarious hold on sense and order: from the zombie’s gory disintegration to the vampire’s absent reflection and from the shaky camerawork of ‘found footage’ horror to the spectacle of shattering glass in the Italian giallo. Addressing classic horror movies alongside popular and innovative contemporary works, Visceral Screens shows how they have rendered the human form as a type of ‘image-body’, mediated by optical effects, chromatic shifts, glitches and audiovisual fragmentation. The question of signification is central to this metaphorical exchange, s

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Tzohar, Roy. What It All Comes Down To. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190664398.003.0006.

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This chapter assembles the pieces of the puzzle, reconstructing Sthiramati’s argument in his commentary on Vasubandhu’s Triṃśika that all language use is metaphorical. It demonstrates how Sthiramati joins many of the elements introduced in the previous chapters of this book into an innovative philosophical theory of meaning. The innovation lies in tying together, through the pan-figurative view, the Yogācāra understanding of the causal activity of consciousness with a linguistic theory of sense. This theory enabled Sthiramati to present a unique understanding of discourse that distinguishes am

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Soza, Joel R. Lucifer, Leviathan, Lilith, and other Mysterious Creatures of the Bible. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780761877646.

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The bible is indeed a world of the strange and mysterious when it comes to the variety of creatures that are presented in its texts. These often times serve as images of good versus evil, or order versus chaos. Flat and narrowly myopic literal readings of the bible that at times lacks for imagination and creative insight to the bible’s occasional and amazingly metaphorical maze fall far short of what is needed to appreciate the full depth of the biblical world’s imagery. Therefore this work explores the meaning of the bible’s mysterious creatures with an emphasis on three creatures that all ap

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Kidd, Erin, and Jakob Karl Rinderknecht, eds. Putting God on the Map. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978720169.

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Since the middle of the last century, the emergence and development of fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolutionary science, cognitive linguistics, and neuroscience have led to a greater understanding of the ways in which humans think. One of the major discoveries involves what researchers refer to as conceptual mapping. According to theories of conceptual mapping, human thought is profoundly shaped by the ability to make connections. Simply put, human thinking is metaphorical all the way down. This insight has revolutionized the way in which scientists and philosophers think abo

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Knoll, Gillian. Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474428521.001.0001.

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Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stage. To “conceive” desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the most elusive experiences. Drawing from cognitive and philosophical approaches, this book advances a new methodology for analysing how early modern plays dramatize inward erotic experience. Grounded in cognitive theories about the metaphorical nature of thought, Conceiving Desire in Lyly and Shakespeare traces the contours

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Book of Wisdom 90 Wisdom with Meanings and Examples: Popular, Metaphorical and Sometimes Even Very Funny Proverbs. Independently Published, 2020.

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Pappas-Kelley, Jared. Solvent Form. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526129246.001.0001.

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Solvent form examines the destruction of art—through objects that have been destroyed (lost in fires, floods, vandalism, or similarly those artists that actively court or represent this destruction, such as Gustav Metzger), but also as a process within art that the object courts through form. In this manner, Solvent form looks to events such as the Momart warehouse fire in 2004 as well as the actions of art thief Stéphane Breitwieser in which the stolen work was destroyed. Against this overlay, a tendency is mapped whereby individuals attempt to conceptually gather these destroyed or lost obje

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Richards, Jennifer, and Richard Wistreich. The Anatomy of the Renaissance Voice. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400046.003.0015.

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Dissection Might Be Thought Of As A Self-Explanatory Term.’ So Begins Jonathan Sawday’s The Body Emblazoned: Dissection And The Human Body In Renaissance Culture (1995), One Of The Earliest Cultural Histories To Contribute To The Burgeoning Field Of Medical Humanities In The 1990s. ‘In Its Medical Sense’, He Explains, ‘A Dissection Suggests The Methodical Division Of An Animal Body For The Purposes Of “Critical Examination”.’ But The Term Can Be Used In A ‘Metaphoric Sense’ Too, And When It Is We Are Led ‘To An Historical Field Rich In Cognate Meanings’ In A Period When A ‘ “Science” Of The Bo

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Eitan, Zohar, Renee Timmers, and Mordechai Adler. Cross-modal correspondences and affect in a Schubert song. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199351411.003.0006.

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Light, distance and motion are prominent features in Heine’s ‘Am fernen Horizonten’. A city is veiled in dusk, the sun rises from the earth and the boatman rows with sad strokes. Using empirical findings on cross-modal and affective associations with sounds, we examine Schubert’s interpretation and illustration of these metaphorical dimensions in ‘Die Stadt’. Focusing on local variations in tempo and dynamics, we analyse how the emotional and cross-modal connotations of the song are modified in three performances, provindinginsight into the interrelationship between cross-modal and affective c

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Harbus, Antonina. The Long View. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.003.0008.

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This chapter considers how a modern reader can make sense of a medieval text, but also to have an aesthetic and emotional reaction to the text. It deploys insights from neuroscientific work on emotion in mental processing, the psychology and history of emotions, and cognitive poetic approaches to the aesthetics of reading, to consider how poetic language use interacts with cognitive structures and processes. By using a new diachronic perspective, this chapter explores the shared cognitive basis of meaning and feeling in short (translated) elegiac poems written over 1,000 years ago in Old Engli

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Kohm, Steven. The paedophile in popular culture. Edited by Teela Sanders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213633.013.27.

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This essay examines fictional representations of sex crime, focusing on the construction of the paedophile in contemporary popular culture. Representations of sex crime and criminals in film and television have tended to mirror broader societal and social scientific assumptions about the nature of the crime, the consequences for victims, and appropriate reactions to offending behavior. Moreover, cinematic explorations of child sexual abuse can offer metaphorical sites to critique contemporary understandings of the causes, consequence, and reactions to the behavior. This essay situates the repr

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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. Catastrophic narratives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.003.0037.

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The chapter considers how, beginning with the Revolution and continuing across the centry, new narrative forms in prose and poetry fashion a discourse of national destiny. As narratives conceptualize historical change and convey the meanings of catastrophe, they develop new plotlines, metaphoric systems and mythological visions. The chapter argues that Russian literature on the Great Terror, collectivization, and Gulag achieves a focus on historical and personal trauma comparable to Holocaust literature. Soviet narratives of World War II also form an important trend from the 1940s through twen

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Schotter, Jesse. Coda: The Rosetta Stone. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424776.003.0008.

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Hieroglyphs have persisted for so long in the Western imagination because of the malleability of their metaphorical meanings. Emblems of readability and unreadability, universality and difference, writing and film, writing and digital media, hieroglyphs serve to encompass many of the central tensions in understandings of race, nation, language and media in the twentieth century. For Pound and Lindsay, they served as inspirations for a more direct and universal form of writing; for Woolf, as a way of treating the new medium of film and our perceptions of the world as a kind of language. For Con

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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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Loske, Alexandra, ed. A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206211.

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Volume 5 A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography, photography, electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheaper color printing, all contributed to a new exuberance about color. Available pigments and colored products – made possible by new technologies, industrial manufacturing, commercialization, and urbanization – also greatly increased, as did illustrated printed literature for the mass market. Color, both literally and metaphorically, was splashed around, a

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Nagarajan, Vijaya. Feeding a Thousand Souls. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170825.001.0001.

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Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book investigates aesthetic, symbolic, metaphorical, literary, mathematical, and philosophical meanings of the kōlam, the popular Tamil women’s daily ephemeral practice, a ritual art tradition performed with rice flour on the thresholds of houses in southern India. They range from concepts such as auspiciousness, inauspiciousness, ritual purity, and ritual pollution. Several divinities, too, play a significant role: Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, good luck, well-being, and a quickening energy; Mūdevi, the goddess of poverty, bad luck, illness, and laziness

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Clarke, Katherine. Shaping the Geography of Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820437.001.0001.

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This is a book about the multiple worlds that Herodotus creates in his narrative. The constructed landscape in Herodotus’ work incorporates his literary representation of the natural world from the broadest scope of continents right down to the location of specific episodes. His ‘charging’ of those settings through mythological associations and spatial parallels adds further depth and resonance. The physical world of the Histories is in turn altered by characters in the narrative whose interactions with the natural world form part of Herodotus’ inquiry, and add another dimension to the meaning

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Banerjee, Swapna M. Fathers in a Motherland. Oxford University PressDelhi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9789391050245.001.0001.

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Abstract Fathers in a Motherland weaves stories of fathers and children into the history of gender, family, and nation in colonial India. Focusing on the reformist Bengali Hindu and Brahmo communities, Banerjee contends that fatherhood assumed new meanings and significance in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century India. During this time of social and political change, fathers extended their roles beyond breadwinning to take an active part in rearing their children. But there were differences in fathers’ attitude towards boy- and girl-children, so fatherhood differed depending on the gend

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Zaid, Nasr Abu, and Esther Ruth Nelson. Voice of an Exile. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216032731.

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In 1995 Ayman al-Zawahiri, a prominent terrorist figure recently associated with Al Queda and al-Jihad, issued a bounty against Dr. Nasr Abu Zaid, a respected Islamic scholar at Cairo University. What was Zaid's offense? Arguing that Islam's holy texts should be interpreted in the historical and linguistic context of their time, and that new interpretations should account for social change. His controversial claim that the Qur'an be interpreted metaphorically rather than literally further enraged fundamentalists. Labeled an apostate by the Cairo court of appeals, his life was threatened and he

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