Essays about: "house metaphors"

Found 4 essays containing the words house metaphors.

1. 1. Media Representation of Climate Change in Uganda

   University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap

   Author : Alice Kiingi; [2012]
   Keywords : Global Journalism;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study was to explore how the Ugandan newspapers, The New Vision and The Daily Monitor frame climate change to become a familiar concept or topic that can be well understood by the public. The term framing in this context does not refer to the ideology of the frame analysis theory but rather defined in simple terms to put a concept into words that convey meaning. READ MORE

3. 2. Translating "Clarity, Style and Precision" : The Economist's Language from the Translator's Point of View

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Birgitta Wernbro-Augustsson; [2009]
   Keywords : Translation strategies; scientific discourse; metaphors; stylistic devices; hedging;

   Abstract : Abstract   The following essay is an analysis of the translation process from English into Swedish of four articles about the oceans of the world, printed in The Economist in December 2008. This publication claims to be using a language characterised by "clarity, style and precision", wherefore these concepts provide the focus for the analysis. READ MORE

4. 3. The foulest creatures that walk this earth : J.K. Rowling's Magical Creatures as Metaphors for Difficulties for Teenagers

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Erica Engdahl; [2009]
   Keywords : harry; potter; magical; creatures; didacticism; racism; fear; different; change;

   Abstract : In this essay I discuss the magical creatures in the Harry Potter series; not the complete series but Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Many scholars say that the Harry Potter novels are didactic, moralist books in different ways. READ MORE

5. 4. Justifying Operation Iraqi Freedom - A Study of Moral Metaphors in Political Statements

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Armin Beganovic; [2006]
   Keywords : Cognitive Linguistics; Metaphor; Figurative Language; Operation Iraqi Freedom; War on Terror; George W. Bush; Saddam Hussein; USA; Iraq; Qualitative Text Analysis; Hermeneutics;

   Abstract : Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the way George W. Bush used moral metaphors to intensify the language in his statements on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Three moral metaphors are presented within two different models that are applied on the data. READ MORE