Essays about: "megametaphor"

Found 1 essay containing the word megametaphor.

  1. 1. Disease and disaster : On the translation of illness and natural force metaphors in a journalistic political essay

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Jenny Daneback; [2017]
    Keywords : Cognitive metaphor theory; English; megametaphor; metaphor; rhetorical device; source domain; Swedish; translation;

    Abstract : This essay deals with the translation of certain metaphors in a journalistic political essay. It focuses on metaphor as a conceptual and rhetorical device, and on the translation of metaphors that make use of the source domains NATURAL FORCE and ILLNESS. READ MORE