Essays about: "Conventional metaphor"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words Conventional metaphor.
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1. Lost (and found) in translation : A study of the translation of metaphors and metonymies in a Scottish travel guide
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : During the last few decades, the translation of metaphors has been a popular focus for examination. Seemingly, the challenges that metaphors and metonymies pose have urged several scholars to compile sets of translation strategies in order to meet them or at least attempt to describe how they tend to be met. READ MORE
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2. "Beat the killer disease" : A corpus-driven discourse study on conceptual metaphors in British newspapers
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This paper investigates the dominant metaphors in corpora constructed of British online news publications. It uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, consisting of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and agenda setting theory. READ MORE
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3. Metaphorical mountainscapes : Translating metaphors, similes and metonymy in an adventure travel guide
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study examines the translation of an adventure travel guide from English to Swedish, focusing on the translation of conventional metaphors, original metaphors, metonymy and similes, with special attention to conceptual metaphors. The results show that most of the metaphors are reproduced in the target text, along with most of the metonymic segments and all similes. READ MORE
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4. 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 språkvetenskapAbstract : 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
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5. 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 språkstudierAbstract : 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
