Metaphor is pervasive in literature, and metaphorical choices can be seen as central to what we call an author's 'style.' This study provides an illustrative overview, based on fifty-page prose excerpts from fourteen authors representing diverse genres and periods. Categorizing examples by frequency, syntactic form and meaning, a clear characteristic or combination of characteristics readily emerges for each novelist. Having covered these, we then look in more detail at the semantics of metaphor in Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things. Finally, we hypothesize that an expanded study, considering the function of metaphors in text and their interre lationships, could yield an increasingly fine-grained measure of metaphorical style.A m...
The purely cognitive representation of metaphor poses some difficulties. It is proposed that these d...
This study is focused on the comprehension of metaphors in foreign language texts. The specific aims...
Metáforas gramaticais caracterizam a linguagem técnica e são recorrentes no registro acadêmico escri...
Metaphor is pervasive in literature, and metaphorical choices can be seen as central to what we call...
Metaphor is pervasive in literature, and metaphorical choices can be seen as central to what we call...
The claim that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002 [1980]) leads to the ...
The use of metaphors is seen by many people just as on ornamental resource found in literary genres...
The article presents partial results of a research which is aimed at verifying how figurative langua...
This article aims to analyze how the metaphor has been discussed and addressed in current textbooks ...
This paper is an attempt at moving forward with the discussion on one of this aspects, which still c...
This paper is part of a research project whose central aim is to empirically investigate the multipl...
Este estudo apresenta uma análise da obra The God of Small Things, da escritora indiana Arundhati Ro...
This article examines a series of issues involved in identifying metaphors in texts. Metaphor identi...
Identifying metaphorically used words in the way we have proposed in the other articles in this spec...
From the concept of metaphor and metaphorical effect?snotion based on Michel P?cheux?swork, this dis...
The purely cognitive representation of metaphor poses some difficulties. It is proposed that these d...
This study is focused on the comprehension of metaphors in foreign language texts. The specific aims...
Metáforas gramaticais caracterizam a linguagem técnica e são recorrentes no registro acadêmico escri...
Metaphor is pervasive in literature, and metaphorical choices can be seen as central to what we call...
Metaphor is pervasive in literature, and metaphorical choices can be seen as central to what we call...
The claim that metaphors are pervasive in everyday life (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 2002 [1980]) leads to the ...
The use of metaphors is seen by many people just as on ornamental resource found in literary genres...
The article presents partial results of a research which is aimed at verifying how figurative langua...
This article aims to analyze how the metaphor has been discussed and addressed in current textbooks ...
This paper is an attempt at moving forward with the discussion on one of this aspects, which still c...
This paper is part of a research project whose central aim is to empirically investigate the multipl...
Este estudo apresenta uma análise da obra The God of Small Things, da escritora indiana Arundhati Ro...
This article examines a series of issues involved in identifying metaphors in texts. Metaphor identi...
Identifying metaphorically used words in the way we have proposed in the other articles in this spec...
From the concept of metaphor and metaphorical effect?snotion based on Michel P?cheux?swork, this dis...
The purely cognitive representation of metaphor poses some difficulties. It is proposed that these d...
This study is focused on the comprehension of metaphors in foreign language texts. The specific aims...
Metáforas gramaticais caracterizam a linguagem técnica e são recorrentes no registro acadêmico escri...