Essays about: "metaphor identification"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words metaphor identification.
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1. “The road ahead will be difficult” : An analysis of conceptual metaphors used in political speeches
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : Political speeches are complex in nature and call for a thorough exploration to unravel the underlying messages. Politicians tend to simplify their speeches by using conceptual metaphors as a means of taking a shortcut. READ MORE
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2. Collecting the Environment : A Cultural and Aesthetic Historical Analysis of Mushroom Collecting in Sweden from the 19th century to the Present
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : The aim of this project is to investigate a cultural history of mushroom collecting in Sweden from the 19th century to the present with a focus on connections between aesthetics and the environment. Collecting is defined broadly as gathering, storing, and accumulating. READ MORE
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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)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
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4. Swedish Learners of English and Their Use of Linguistic Metaphor
University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikationAbstract : This study investigates linguistic metaphors used by Swedish learners of English in upper secondary school. The aim is to provide a measure of the amount and distribution of metaphor in learner English, with the secondary aim of evaluating the method. READ MORE
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5. How to analyze identification in storytelling?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Retorik; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis examines the use of storytelling in advertising from a rhetorical perspective. Specifically, stories told in IKEA’s recent advertising campaign Där livet händer (Where life happens) will be analyzed. The purpose is to propose a way in which to analyze identification in storytelling. READ MORE