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“Holy Cow, My Irony Detector Just Exploded!” Calling Out Irony During The Coronavirus Pandemic “天哪，我的反讽探测器爆炸了!”在冠状病毒大流行期间发出讽刺

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1855944

R. Gibbs

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引用次数: 2

Metaphors of Depression. Studying First Person Accounts of Life with Depression Published in Blogs 抑郁症的隐喻。博客中关于抑郁症患者生活的第一人称描述研究

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1845096

Marta Coll-Florit, S. Climent, M. Sanfilippo, Eulàlia Hernández-Encuentra

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引用次数: 18

On Some Pragmatic Effects of Event Metonymies 论事件转喻的一些语用效果

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1820304

Javier Herrero-Ruiz

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The Interplay of Metaphor and Metonymy in Christian Symbols 基督教象征中隐喻与转喻的相互作用

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1809313

M. Kuczok

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引用次数: 2

Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory 扩展概念隐喻理论

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1813035

Jieqiong Huang

引用次数: 2

Weaponization: Ubiquity and Metaphorical Meaningfulness 武器化：普遍性与隐喻意义

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1810577

Greggor Mattson

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引用次数: 2

Playful Metaphors in Sex Jokes and Socio-Cultural Implications 性笑话中的俏皮隐喻及其社会文化含义

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1802205

Huei-ling Lai

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引用次数: 1

Individual Differences in Comprehension of Contextualized Metaphors 语境化隐喻理解的个体差异

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1821203

Dusan Stamenkovic, Nicholas Ichien, K. Holyoak

引用次数: 12

Power, Gender, and Individual Differences in Spatial Metaphor: The Role of Perceptual Stereotypes and Language Statistics 空间隐喻中的权力、性别和个体差异：感知刻板印象和语言统计的作用

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1794319

Bodo Winter, Sarah E. Duffy, J. Littlemore

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引用次数: 9

From the Sea to the Sky: Metaphorically Mapping Water to Air 从海洋到天空:隐喻地将水映射到空气

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Metaphor and Symbol Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2020.1804809

Hamad Al-Azary, Christina L. Gagné, T. Spalding

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引用次数: 3