ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD METAPHOR
From Latin, from Greek metaphora, from metapherein to transfer, from meta- + pherein to bear.
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10 QUOTES WITH «METAPHOR»
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metaphor.
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar?
In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.
We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METAPHOR»
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metaphor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
metaphor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The volume also includes six new chapters that present important and influential new ideas about metaphor that have appeared in such fields as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, linguistics, cognitive and clinical ...
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Metaphor:A Practical Introduction
Beginning with Lakoff and Johnson's seminal work in Metaphors We Live By, Kovecses outlines the development of "the cognitive linguistic theory of metaphor" by explaining key ideas on metaphor.
In this volume, authors of some of the most important new approaches re-present their views or illustrate them by means of applications, thus allowing the reader to survey some of the prominent ongoing developments in this field.
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Metaphor and Corpus Linguistics
This book is addressed at readers from diverse academic backgrounds who are interested in ways of researching metaphor from different perspectives, and especially through corpus linguistics.
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Pictorial
Metaphor in Advertising
Metaphor has a predicative character and is capable of referring to an
extralinguistic reality—although this reality is not necessarily an already existing
one. The processing of a metaphor involves more than making sense of the
semantic ...
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Metaphor and Analogy in the Sciences
"Science constructs its objects": is this a metaphor? It does not necessarily mean anyway that the real does not pre-exist.
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The Contemporary Theory of
Metaphor: A Perspective from Chinese
This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective.
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how ...
George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, 2008
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The Rule of
Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Sheila Hicks Weaving as
Metaphor
This text examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced over years.
Nina Stritzler-Levine, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, 2006
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METAPHOR»
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metaphor is used in the context of the following news items.
Kandahar storage facility 'metaphor' for US mission in Afghanistan
Contract amendments on an Afghan $14.7 million storage facility that the US Army no longer needed is a “metaphor” for Washington's war in ... «Press TV, Jul 15»
“First Base and Beyond” Expands the Baseball Metaphor For Getting …
Ever since God said “play ball” to humanity and inserted Eve alongside Adam at the top of the very first Opening Day lineup, we all know there's ... «RantSports, Jul 15»
Essay calls for new metaphor -- clogged pipeline -- on academic …
But to carry this increasingly contested metaphor one step farther, recent trends suggest the pipe is clogging farther up the line. Faculty ... «Inside Higher Ed, Jul 15»
Atticus Finch as metaphor for the South
In this 1962 photo, actor Gregory Peck is shown as attorney Atticus Finch, a small-town Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jul 15»
The New Yorker's Donald Trump cover is the perfect metaphor for …
The cover shows that Donald Trump's presidential campaign is making a big splash in the Republican primaries, but also that Trump is making ... «Vox, Jul 15»
The Most Perfect Metaphor for New Motherhood
Isla. That is the name of the baby a friend of mine is waiting to bring into the world at any moment. I have been thinking a lot about this lovely ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Netanyahu Meth Metaphor Focuses Debate on Inspections as …
How does that statement sit with the Netanyahu meth inspection metaphor? J Street does not answer directly, but links to three outside sources, ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»
The rain metaphor
Rain is of as much significance in the realms of literature as it is in the monsoon-awaiting plains of India. Symbolising both pain and pleasure, ... «mydigitalfc.com, Jul 15»
Amina Zakari As Metaphor for Gender Equality
Nigeria: Amina Zakari As Metaphor for Gender Equality. tweet. share. Google+. comment. email. more. By Ifeanyi Alia. Nigerian women are ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Medicine as Metaphor
The practice of medicine is both an art and a science. We study and learn the system so that when the time comes to apply it, there is a greater possibility of ... «Acupuncture Today, Jul 15»
