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A Comparative Study of Metaphor in Arabic and English General Business Writing with Teaching Implications
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The Comprehension of Metaphorical Expressions by Jordanian EFL Learners
TL;DR: This paper explored the ability of Jordanian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to comprehend metaphorical expressions in English and investigated whether the use of their first langua-...
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Teaching English poetry to Saudi students: an exploratory study for applying a Systemic Functional Linguistic based pedagogy for improving the reading, analysis and interpretation of poems in the English language
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study was conducted to investigate the impact of social, cultural, religious and linguistic differences on the reading and interpretation of poems in English by exploring the perceptions of Saudi students regarding these issues.
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Metaphor Reexamined: A Non-Aristotelian Perspective
TL;DR: Gumpel as mentioned in this paper proposes a non-Aristotelian view of metaphor, based on the phenomenological semantics of Roman Ingarden and the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce.
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The Impact of L1 Metaphorical Comprehension on L2 Metaphorical Comprehension of Iraqi EFL Learners
Mahmoud Arif,Imran Ho Abdullah +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate learners' metaphorical comprehension in L1 and its effect on the metaphorical understanding in L2 by Iraqi EFL learners at secondary school using a self-administered questionnaire, which is classified into demographic part that gives a general background of the participants, and the part that includes 30 Arabic metaphoric proverbs and other 30 English proverbs.
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.
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Metaphors We Live by
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as discussed by the authors present a very attractive book for linguists to read, which is written in a direct and accessible style; while it introduces and uses a number of new terms, for the most part it is free of jargon.
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Features of Similarity
TL;DR: The metric and dimensional assumptions that underlie the geometric representation of similarity are questioned on both theoretical and empirical grounds and a set of qualitative assumptions are shown to imply the contrast model, which expresses the similarity between objects as a linear combination of the measures of their common and distinctive features.
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Philosophy in the flesh : the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: The Cognitive Science of Philosophy: A Cognitive Science Of Basic Philosophical Ideas as mentioned in this paper The Cognitive science of philosophy is a branch of the philosophy of early Greek metaphysics and philosophy of philosophy.