Sökning: "metaphor"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 257 avhandlingar innehållade ordet metaphor.
1. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter : a study of animal designations in metaphoric usage in Swedish dialects
Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER
2. Folkligt bildspråk : En studie över djurbenämningar i metaforisk användning i svenska dialekter
Sammanfattning : The main object of this thesis on popular figurative language is to try to explain the relationshipbetween an artifact and its designation, i.e., to try to explain why a certain object has been namedfor an animal and what the people who used the word were attempting to describe with the help ofthis animal designation. LÄS MER
3. The Architectural Metaphor : Textual Models in Spatial Construction
Sammanfattning : The dissertation concerns the concept of model withinarchitecture, and elaborates particular uses in this field,where modelling is a heuristic process aiming at invention anddiscovery. Methodologically, this is made by introducing thecomparative concepts of metaphor and narrative. LÄS MER
4. ”Det här är ju dött tåg liksom…” : en studie av metaforer för ROMANTISK KÄRLEK i talad svenska
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to investigate the metaphorization of ROMANTIC LOVE in spoken Swedish. The study is based on 4 semi-structured focus group conversations with participants in two age groups; 24–33 and 50–54. A Swedish short film and questions related to the film were used as stimuli for the conversations. LÄS MER
5. Psykoanalys i ljuset av metafor och metonymi : En analys av Freuds teori om primärprocesstänkande och tolkningsarbete utifrån konceptuell metaforteori
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to examine how Conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), with its detailed conceptual framework for various metaphorical and metonymic thought processes, can clarify and deepen psychoanalysis, specifically Freud's theory of the primary process thinking as a central element in his theory of the unconscious, as well as his interpretive work in the case study, Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy (Little Hans). In a broader perspective, my dissertation also has educational relevance as a contribution to the theoretical discussions of meaning and meaning-making. LÄS MER