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Pull the weeds out or perish: Using pandemic metaphors to strengthen in-group solidarity in Turkish political discourse 拔除杂草或灭亡:在土耳其政治话语中使用流行病隐喻来加强群体内团结

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1994840

Esranur Efeoğlu Özcan

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引用次数: 1

How We Escape Capture by the “War” Metaphor for Covid-19 新冠肺炎的“战争”隐喻如何逃脱捕获

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1935261

M. Hanne

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引用次数: 10

Audience Perceptions of COVID-19 Metaphors: The Role of Source Domain and Country Context 受众对COVID-19隐喻的认知:来源领域和国家背景的作用

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1948332

Britta C. Brugman, Ellen Droog, W. G. Reijnierse, Saskia Leymann, G. Frezza, Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette

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引用次数: 5

Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection 在疫情时期像刺猬一样行事：#reframecovid系列中的隐喻创造力

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1949599

Paula Pérez-Sobrino, E. Semino, I. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Veronika Koller, I. Olza

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引用次数: 13

What Else besides War: Deliberate Metaphors Framing COVID-19 in Chinese Online Newspaper Editorials 除了战争，还有什么:中国网络报纸社论中有意构建COVID-19的隐喻

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1948333

Cun Zhang, Zhengjun Lin, Shengxi Jin

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引用次数: 7

Countering Undesirable Implications of Violence Metaphors for Cancer through Metaphor Extension 从隐喻扩展看暴力隐喻对癌症的不良影响

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1948334

D. Y. Wackers, H. Plug

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引用次数: 0

Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience 国际大学生学术指导中的隐喻：伊拉斯谟经验

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1941969

Rafael Alejo-González

引用次数: 3

Evading the Lockdown: Animal Metaphors and Dehumanization in Virtual Space 逃避封锁:虚拟空间中的动物隐喻和非人性化

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1941972

Janet Ho

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引用次数: 4

Constructing a Broad Model for Proverb Understanding 构建谚语理解的广义模型

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1933489

El Mustapha Lemghari

引用次数: 0

Structure Mapping in Second-Language Metaphor Processing 第二语言隐喻处理中的结构映射

IF 1.1 3区文学

Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2021.1941971

Miki Ikuta, K. Miwa

引用次数: 2