Essays about: "use of metaphor in language"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 essays containing the words use of metaphor in language.

1. 1. The Voice of Nature : Ecological Personification in Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin and Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Zayna Halis; [2023]
   Keywords : Conceptual Metaphor Theory; ecolinguistics; ecological personification; ecosophy; ecological identities; eco-resistance; embodied metaphors;

   Abstract : This study delves into the ways in which the displaced Palestinian characters in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin (2010) and Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets Had a Name (2008) connect to their homeland through embodied metaphors, particularly through the personification of their native lands, which will be read with recourse to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT). By utilizing ecolinguistics as an analytical lens and applying CMT, this study illuminates how both literary works significantly underscore the urgency and cruciality of the human-nature interconnection and interdependence amid tragedy and dispossession. READ MORE

3. 2. Swedish Learners of English and Their Use of Linguistic Metaphor

   University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Angelica Ahlin; [2022]
   Keywords : metaphor; MIPVU; second language learning; word class;

   Abstract : 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

4. 3. The Art of the Political Metaphor : Examining Boris Johnson's use of conceptual metaphors in a speech on Brexit

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Rickard Eriksson; [2022]
   Keywords : Metaphor; Brexit; Boris Johnson; Conceptual metaphor theory; Framing;

   Abstract : As the 2016 Brexit referendum was an election largely decided by the use of language, there was merit in examining how the Leave campaign had managed to be successful. Therefore, this study asks how one of the leave campaign's main figure heads, Boris Johnson, used metaphors to frame the relationship between Britain and the EU. READ MORE

5. 4. Environmentalist Metaphors in Tales from Outer Suburbia : Supporting students' visual literacy skills by analysing Shaun Tan's pictures

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Patricia Svensson; [2021]
   Keywords : pictorial metaphors; environmentalism; Shaun Tan; visual literacy; English language learning;

   Abstract : As the impact of pictures in everyday life and literature is increasing, so is the importance of visual literacy skills. This essay combines theories of visual literacy, pictorial metaphor, image analysis and environmentalism to analyse visual literacy in relation to how Shaun Tan’s pictures create metaphorical ideas related to the environment in Tales from Outer Suburbia. READ MORE

6. 5. Understanding Reification in the Composition of New Concert Music

   University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik, konst och samhälle

   Author : Christopher Pantelidis; [2021]
   Keywords : Composition; Reification; Music; Music Philosophy; Ethnography; Audio Paper; Concert Works; Stimulated Recall; Metaphor;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the relationships that exist between reification, the conceptualisation of music, and the composition of new concert music. In general terms, reification can be described as the mental process of conceiving abstract concepts as tangible and concrete things. READ MORE