Sökning: "metaphor"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 257 avhandlingar innehållade ordet metaphor.
11. Grapes in the Desert : Metaphors, Models, and Themes in Hosea 4-14
Sammanfattning : This study explores the textual world of Hosea 4-14. To this end it uses a melhod informed by modern metaphor theory. At the outset, the hypothesis that chapters 4-14 in the book of Hosea constitute a coherent literary composition is submitted. The perspectival theory advanced by Eva F. LÄS MER
12. Les métaphores de guerre dans la prose journalistique du français
Sammanfattning : This study explores the use of war metaphors, more specifically metaphors centred on the verb, in modern French newspaper prose from three principal angles. The first part of the analysis shows that the verbs of war used are metaphorical rather than concrete. LÄS MER
13. Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. LÄS MER
14. Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute
Sammanfattning : Abstract This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. LÄS MER
15. Detection and Aptness: A study in metaphor detection and aptness assessment through neural networks and distributional semantic spaces
Sammanfattning : Metaphor is one of the most prominent, and most studied, figures of speech. While it is considered an element of great interest in several branches of linguistics, such as semantics, pragmatics and stylistics, its automatic processing remains an open challenge. LÄS MER