A Study of Metaphor and its Application in Language?Learning and Teaching
Fachun Zhang,Jianpeng Hu +1 more
TL;DR: The authors gives a brief review of traditional metaphor and modern metaphor in the West and devotes a large space to elaborate on reasons for emergence of metaphor, characteristics of metaphor and working mechanism of metaphor.
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Abstract: Metaphor is more a vehicle of cognizing the world than purely a rhetorical device. This paper first gives a brief review of traditional metaphor and modern metaphor in the West and then devotes a large space to elaborate on reasons for emergence of metaphor, characteristics of metaphor, working mechanism of metaphor, and then proposes suggestions on its application in language learning and teaching.
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More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
TL;DR: More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor as mentioned in this paper is a field guide to poetry and its application in the field of metaphorical activity, which is also related to our work.
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
TL;DR: In this article, women, fire, and dangerous things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind are discussed and discussed in the context of women's empowerment and women's mental health.
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Metaphors of Anger, Pride and Love: A lexical approach to the structure of concepts
Zoltán Kövecses
- 01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love, and found that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) metonymies, (3) related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical model in the center.
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Cognitive Linguistics and Metaphor
Markus Tendahl
- 01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: Cognitive linguistics has become a vigorous discipline in linguistics since its first steps in the 1970s as discussed by the authors, and all the major levels of linguistic description, such as phonology, syntax, morphology and semantics have been tackled from a cognitive linguistic viewpoint.
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More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor
George Lakoff,Mark Turner +1 more
- 01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: The authors showed that metaphor has never gone away in our lives: we have merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.'