Essays about: "cognitive metaphor"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 essays containing the words cognitive metaphor.

  1. 1. Navigating through life with metaphors as a guide. : An analysis about mind style and metaphors in John Green's The Fault In Our Stars and its pedagogical use.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Frithiof Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Mind style; Metaphor; Reality; EFL Classroom; Upper Secondary School; Motivation.;

    Abstract : This essay offers a literary study of John Green’s novel The Fault In Our Stars which was published in 2012. This thesis argues that Hazel and Augustus are portraying unorthodox mind styles, and they are demonstrating this with their use of and stance towards metaphors. READ MORE

  3. 2. Containment as Imprisonment or Freedom : A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Conceptual Container Metaphors in The Handmaid’s Tale

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Lina Haji Akram; [2023]
    Keywords : conceptual metaphor theory; conceptual container metaphors; embodiment; cognitive stylistics; mental states;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a close reading of the award-winning novel The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood. Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a framework, and the notion of embodiment, the study sheds light on metaphorical linguistic expressions that contribute to the realization of conceptual container metaphors pertinent to the main character’s psychological state. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Harsh realities” and “tender gazes”: Do perceptual extensions function metaphorically or literally? : A corpus-based investigation of haptic adjectives and the “extent of the literal”

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Esme Richardson-Owen; [2022]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; cognitive semantics; perceptual metaphor; lexical metaphor; double-function adjectives;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. READ MORE

  5. 4. A corpus-based analysis of phrasal verbs with the particle out in two contemporary English novels used in Swedish secondary schools

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Carola Henriksson; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and the figurative meaning senses of out-PVs in two contemporary novels read in Swedish secondary schools. The study was delimited to PVs with the particle out. READ MORE

  6. 5. Rollen av det poetiska språket i "Den Nya Vetenskapen" av Giambattista Vico

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Maresca Massimo; [2021-07-05]
    Keywords : kropp; retorik; Vico; sensus communis; metafor; repetition;

    Abstract : In the seventeenth century the Italian rhetorician Giambattista Vico imagined the history of human civilization in his major work The New Science. He conceived the progression of humanity from barbarism along the way towards the construction of a self-conscious mind, the highest and final achievement of human development. READ MORE