Essays about: "linguistic metaphor"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 29 essays containing the words linguistic metaphor.

  1. 11. Metaphors and their Making: Bodily, conventionally and contextually motivated metaphors in inter- and intra-generational conversations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Björn Torstensson; [2019]
    Keywords : cognitive semiotics; iconicity; Motivation and Sedimentation Model; conventionality; embodiment; metaphor identification; signs; polysemy; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis examines and compares spontaneous metaphor usage in conversations within and between generations. It investigates to what extent they can be seen as motivated by bodily, conventional and situated factors with the help of the Motivation and Sedimentation Model (MSM), which operates with these three levels of meaning. READ MORE

  3. 12. Walking and Wandering among Mountains and Monsters : A study of metaphors and lexical variation in translation in a text about the Lake District

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Carol Turner; [2019]
    Keywords : English; lexicalised metaphors; lexical variation; metaphor; metaphorical concepts; novel metaphors; structural analysis;

    Abstract : This essay studies the translation of metaphorical concepts and lexical variation in relation to walking in a text about hiking in the Lake District. These two linguistic features are deemed to be important in fulfilling the communicative intention of the source text and the aim of the essay is to investigate to what extent these two linguistic features have been retained translation and what motivates different translation strategies. READ MORE

  4. 13. Embodiment in Proverbs: Representation of the eye(s) in English, Swedish, and Japanese

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Jessica Berggren; [2018]
    Keywords : Embodiment; Conceptual metaphor theory; Proverbs; Paremiology; Cross-linguistics;

    Abstract : This study will examine the representation and embodiment of the body part eye(s), in proverbs. The research is cross-linguistic as the proverbs analysed are in the languages English, Swedish, and Japanese. READ MORE

  5. 14. How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Hanna Lindblom; [2017]
    Keywords : Metaphor; metonymy; embodied motivation; idioms; body parts; comparative.;

    Abstract : Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. READ MORE

  6. 15. Refugees in British Media Coverage : A Study of Dehumanizing Conceptual Metaphors

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Kajsa Törmä; [2017]
    Keywords : Cognitive Linguistics; Cognitive Metaphor Theory; metaphor; immigration discourse; newspapers;

    Abstract : This study exemplifies, analyses and discusses the conceptual metaphors refugees are water and refugees are animals in British media discourse. In order to do this, examples of linguistic tokens of the metaphors were collected from four of the biggest newspapers in Britain; Daily Mail, The Sun, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. READ MORE