Perspective Of Metaphor Research Articles

Drama Translation Strategies from the Perspective of Metaphors of Mood

Halliday proposed the concept of “metaphors of mood” in the framework of systemic functional linguistics. Metaphors of mood refer to the phenomenon that the mood and speech function of a sentence is not consistent. What translation strategies will the translator adopt when translating a drama with metaphors of mood? What is the basis for translators to choose different translation strategies? Based on Mo Yan's drama Frog and its English translation from Ge Haowen, this paper studies the drama translation strategies from the perspective of metaphors of mood. It is found that translators usually choose the following three translation strategies in different situations: using the same metaphors of mood as the source text, choosing the corresponding mood according to the actual speech function of the source text, and using other types of metaphors of mood.

The Study of College English Vocabulary Teaching Strategies from the Perspective of Cognitive Metaphor

The Study of College English Vocabulary Teaching Strategies from the Perspective of Cognitive Metaphor

A Comparative Study of the English Translation of Metaphor in Song Ci from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor

Song Ci, as a kind of literary expression, serves as an important part of Chinese literature. Ci writers use the technique of metaphor to express their feelings, but scholars have relatively little research on the English translation of Song Ci metaphors. Guided by the conceptual metaphor theory, this paper makes a comparative analysis of the translations of Xu Yuanchong and Clara Candlin from three aspects: structural metaphor, ontological metaphor and orientational metaphor to explore appropriate translation methods of reducing the loss of metaphor, and to make the target readers appreciate similar metaphor images as the original readers.

The Semantics of the Preposition " alā" in the Quran: A Conceptual Metaphor Perspective.

Traditional syntactic approaches do not offer a plausible explanation regarding the use of the Arabic preposition “alā” with abstract nouns or states. This article adopts a corpus-based approach to investigate the semantic classification of the preposition “alā” in the Quran from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Conceptual metaphor theory (hereafter CMT) was employed to find out conceptual metaphors (hereafter CM) in the data retrieved from the Quran with the help of search Quran software. CMT holds that human sensorimotor neural structures help store spatial relationships, which are then used to map the abstract concepts in language and thought, and that prepositions are the products of human sensorimotor neural structures. This paper found nine key CM themes behind the usage of prepositions in the data. Contact and support schemas were at the heart of the literal and metaphorical use of the spatial preposition “alā” in the Quran. However, it was also found that language generation and comprehension involve the role of multimodal perceptual schemas and linguistic knowledge rather than the unilinear process of one CM. This paper suggests further research into spatial relations across languages to explore the cross-cultural implications of image schemas.

COVID-19 IS WAR, WATER & A PERSON: Metaphorical Language of the Coronavirus Disease in "the Jordan Times" Newspaper

Metaphors permeate our daily communication, and they are part of our cognition. The present study investigates metaphors in a corpus-based study during the Coronavirus disease 19 crisis (COVID-19) using the Antconc Software. The way written media discourse framed the COVID-19 Crisis, especially in the Middle East received little attention from discourse analysts. The data include news editorials about the Coronavirus disease 19 from April 1, 2020 to July 5, 2020 collected from "the Jordan Times" Newspaper in English. The metaphors will be analysed according to Lakoff and Johnson's (1980; 2003) perspective of Conceptual Metaphors and Charteris-Black (2004) of Critical Metaphor Analysis. The quantitative analysis shows that the conceptual metaphors COVID-19 IS WAR, COVID-19 IS WATER, and COVID-19 IS A PERSON are highly used in the corpus to frame the pandemic. The conceptual metaphor COVID-19 IS WAR is not only used to represent a war against the disease, but also a war between countries. So, the metaphorical use is politicised, and reflects hidden ideology. The quantitative analysis asserts that the context is the decisive factor for the analysis of certain lexical items related to the pandemic and identifying whether they are literally or metaphorically used.

National Image Construction of New Year Addresses by Xi Jinping from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor: A Corpus-based Study

The New Year Addresses by Chinese President Xi Jinping has the function of conveying New Year’s blessings and constructing a national image. Based on the conceptual metaphor theory of cognitive linguistics, this study selects the English version of New Year Addresses by President Xi Jinping from 2014 to 2021 as the research corpus and adopts the method of combining quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify the distribution of conceptual metaphors in the New Year Addresses and what kind of national image has been constructed by the main conceptual metaphor types. It is found that President Xi Jinping’s New Year Addresses mainly constructs the national image through the use of journey metaphor, construction metaphor, war metaphor, and personification metaphor. China’s image is political integrity, full of vitality, committed to world peace, and making a greater contribution to humanity.

Papuan Muslims in “One Furnace, There Stones” Metaphor in Fakfak Regency, West Papua Province: An Anthropolinguistic Perspective

Religion should not be used as a legitimacy tool, particularly just as a justification for achieving goals that are full of the nuances of power politics, and the like. This study aims to reveal a tradition of Papuan Muslims in their attempts to create tolerance and harmony in the lives of religious people, which have been practiced and inherited for a long time, from generation to generation. This tradition is practiced by the Papuan Muslims in the Fakfak Regency, known as the “One Furnace, Three Stones” metaphor. This metaphor is used by the community in Fakfak as a moral consensus in the process of integration and social balance. The two approaches applied in this study are a theoretical approach and a methodological approach. The theoretical approach is an exploration of anthropolinguistic and metaphor theory; while the methodological approach is a descriptive approach with an explanative dimension. Based on the perspective of anthropolinguistic and metaphor, this study seeks to apply scientific principles to socio-cultural data, and adapts the steps of scientific studies in other fields of science. This study follows several procedures, including providing data, analyzing data, and presenting the results of data analysis. The results of this study holistically identify the issues of pluralism in Islam and Papuan culture, Islamic migration, metaphorical Papuan Muslim relations, and ideology. This study implies that it could be used as a basic reference in the practice of religious development which upholds tolerance and harmony between religious communities.

A study on English animal idioms from the perspectives of cultural metaphor and their translation into Vietnamese

Quite a few studies have prospectively examined English animal idioms and their translation into Vietnamese, but it is hard to find an in-depth study based on the perspective of cultural metaphor. By employing the qualitative approach, this study examines 422 selected English animal idioms, focusing on the similarities and differences found in comparison with their Vietnamese equivalents. The paper then proposes some solutions to translating these special expressions. In addition to recommending flexible application of translation strategies, the paper emphasizes that only when translators manage to decode and grasp how these special idiomatic expressions work linguistically and culturally can their appropriate translation be achieved

The Construction of Masculinity Identities through Metaphors on the Kenyan Twitter Discourse: A Conceptual Metaphor Perspective

Identities have been created in many ways. Identities such as masculinity have appeared in mainstream media such as newspapers, televisions, radio stations as well as magazines. With the global technological trend, social networking sites such as Twitter platforms have also allowed the construction of male and masculine identities. These identities on social networking sites have seen the rise of toxic masculinity in Kenya. This paper studies how these toxic masculinities are constructed through metaphorical expressions on the Kenyan Twitter discourse. The study comes from the recent heightened calls for gender equality and the advancement of feminism waves in Kenya. This has led to a weekly discussion on the Kenyan Twitter platform about the role and position of men and masculinity in general in comparison to women. The terms boy child and girl child have also been used commonly to refer to males and females respectively. The study is premised upon the Conceptual Metaphor Theory by Lakoff and Johnson (2003) and Hegemonic Masculinity by Connell (2005) Data was collected from #Masculinity Saturday and #Man Day Tweets and replies from selected users. The study provides evidence of toxic masculinity on the Twitter platform. It revealed men as the target domain have been conceptualised as stoic, dominant, entities, managers, savages, self-victimizers, and scarce commodities. The Kenyan twitter discourse also was seen to have diversity in regards to gender and age. However, men seem to be dominating weekly tweets in an attempt to promote toxic masculinity. This can only be seen as a way to regress to patriarchy and a world of male domination.

Authors’ Figurative Expressions From Two Novels: A Comparative Analysis Between RTJNA Rosso and RTJNA Blu

Stylistic analysis of the novels Reisei To Jounetsu No Aida Rosso by Ekuni Kaori and Reisei To Jounetsu No Aida Bluu by Hitonari Tsuji is an analysis of metaphorical language style as a figurative language used to express the author's thoughts, personality, and perspectives. The use of distinctive language in a work shows the characteristics of individualism and the style of each author in conveying ideas through the medium of language. This study uses the metaphorical perspective of Michael C. Halley and Stephen Ullman. The results of the analysis show that the use of an author's language style provides information about the author's cultural background and the context in which they communicate. The metaphorical language style is used by the authors to express feelings and express different thoughts and each author has a uniqueness or specialty style which can be felt in a significant way by the readers of their works.

Analysis of Taylor Swift’s Commencement Address at New York University from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor

As a kind of the types of public speaking, the purpose of the commencement address is to encourage and enhance the self-confidence of the graduating college students. In recent years, the research on speech discourse analysis has gradually aroused the interest of domestic scholars. Based on the theory of conceptual metaphor put forward by Lakoff, this thesis analyzes the conceptual metaphors of Taylor Swift’s Commencement Address at New York University quantitatively and qualitatively, and aims to reveal how the speaker uses some language means to achieve her speech. This paper can further enrich the theory of public speaking, and provide some help for the improvement of the oral and appreciation skills of English learners at the same time.

Study on the Chinese Zodiac Xiehouyu from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor

Xie houyu is a unique Chinese language form produced by the Chinese people in the practice of production and life. As a traditional Chinese culture, the Chinese zodiac is inextricably linked with the folk customs and livelihood of the Chinese people. In the long-term perception of the zodiac animals, people find that many characteristics of the zodiac animals are essentially similar to some living phenomena in human society, so they use some idioms about the zodiac animals to reflect real life and get some rational understanding. From the perspective of cognition, metaphor is not only the comparison between two things based on a similar relationship but "the tool and result of human cognitive activities". (Wang Yin, 2007) Through the cognitive classification and objective static description of this Chinese Zodiac xiehouyu. This study analyzes the metaphorical types of Chinese xiehouyu within Chinese zodiac animals, explains its metaphorical structure and semantic characteristics, and finally, elucidates the cultural connotation of Chinese Zodiac Animal Xiehouyu against the backdrop of Chinese national culture.

A Comparison of the Cultural Connotations of Chinese and Western Animals from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor

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A Corpus-Based Study on Metaphor in Ecological Discourses

In response to environmental issues around the world, the United Nation and the Chinese NGO have launched various proposals and policies focusing on the relationships between humans and nature. From the perspective of conceptual metaphor, this study analyses the UN Protected Planet Report 2020, and China Environment Yearbook, edited by the first Chinese environmental NGO, Under the theory of Conceptual Metaphor by Lakoff and Johnson, a corpus-based methodology combining qualitative and quantitative approaches was applied to demonstrate traits of metaphors used in the reports to illustrate the conceptual models in ecological discourses in Chinese and English. This article figured out that conflict, journey, and living organism metaphor can best reflect different ideologies between parallel discourses in the two cultures. It helps to identify characteristics of language use of metaphor in Chinese and English ecological discourses.

Метафоризация кризиса личности эмигранта в романе Андрея Макина «Жизнь неизвестного человека»

The article presents an analysis of the novel “The Life of an Unknown Man” by Andreï Makine from the metaphorical perspective of the identity crisis of an emigrant. Conceptual metaphors that reveal stereotypical ideas of emigration, motherland and the identity of an emigrant are specified in structural metaphors that create new concepts. These concepts implement a transition from the the positive image of Russia to a negative one as well as a total change of an emigrant’s idea of herself. The initial ontological metaphorical representation of an emigrant makes transition from a geographical concept to a time concept.

On the Future of Computational Thinking Education: Moving beyond the Digital Agenda, a Discourse Analysis Perspective

This article explores the development directions of the phenomenon of Computational Thinking (CT) from the perspectives of discourse analysis. The motivation is based on the understanding of CT as an advanced educational approach, methodology, and community, aimed at a set of learners’ digital and further competences having a huge impact on modern education and society. The novelty of this study lies in the attempt to look holistically at CT and its perspectives, considering it as an evolving phenomenon per se, leaving aside discussion on its internal characteristics or applications. The study utilizes a comprehensive analysis, applying discourse analysis and social semiotics methods. The results present the most trended storylines associated with CT and its context, providing a thorough introduction to the CT discursive landscape. The findings and discussion present a reflective insight into the discursive landscape directions, focusing on meaning-makers and their identities, the transformative and transductive potential of CT, observing the phenomenon’s development paths from a metaphorical perspective and positioning it towards the development of the socio-technical networks it mediates. In the conclusion, the options for development and possible trends in the reconstitution of the CT phenomenon are outlined.

Метафора systema digestorium в русском лингвокультурном пространстве

In recent years linguistic studies have laid great emphasis on the semantic side of linguistic expressions. The aim of this paper is to introduce and describe ‘systema digestorium’ viewed from the perspective of the conceptual metaphor in Russian. It describes the process of creating such metaphors based on the notions of source and target domains. From a linguistic point of view, an interest arises to answer the question of how the functioning of such an important organ as the digestive system is reflected in the conceptualization of the surrounding world. This issue is important because the metaphorization is based on the use of everyday human experience, reflecting processes known to all human kind, including those of a physiological nature. The research material was taken from the national corpus of the Russian language and a number of dictionaries. The figurative meaning of activities related to grinding, swallowing, digesting food, as well as excreting food debris became the object of the research. The basic identifiers are the verbs: to chew, to swallow, to digest, to defecate. Each stage of the digestive system has its own specificity and concentrates on specific parts in viewing the world. In addition, the metaphor ‘systema digestorium’ is often used in Russianlinguaculture to convey the expressiveness and originality of a language.

Readability and adaptation of children’s literary works from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor

Abstract Widely studied in fields like education, psychology, and linguistics, readability can be defined as (a) reader’s understanding of a reading text, (b) features of a text, or (c) the matching of a text to its reader. The existing research has been focused on the formulaic and multilevel discourse approaches, relatively neglecting others such as systemic functional linguistics oriented one. Moreover, contemporary reading materials pose a challenge for average children in many ways. This study examines readability and adaptation of children’s literary works from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor inspired by systemic functional linguistics. Through case studies of metaphorical transferences involving zero, one, two, and three ideational grammatical metaphors used in the parallel excerpts in the original version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its eight adapted ones published in China, it is concluded that addition, maintenance, revision, unpacking, and demetaphorization are five major strategies which are found to decrease, maintain, or increase readability of some parts in the adapted versions.

«The white man is a Tiger at my throat» or the parable of the three bad foundations of human existence: the racial foundation, the hegemonic foundation, and the economic-materialist foundation

This paper studies the poem “Tiger” by Claude Mckay from a metaphorical perspective in order to find out and highlight all the possible hidden meanings about the quality of the white man characterized as a “tiger” in the expression “the white man is a tiger at my throat”. This study will be conducted under theories such as stylistics, hermeneutics and sociocriticism and thanks to those theories; we have explored the plurality of meanings of this sonnet by McKay. The meaning revolves around the white man and his role in the life and existence of black people, but also it sheds light on the new deals or bases or foundations which are race, hatred, power and money that the white people have implemented in human existence and the outcomes of those news deals and foundations in everyday life. It is therefore a metaphorical study at three levels in this paper which appreciate the relationships between different races and namely between black people and white people. Through images, symbols and metaphors, the characteristics of the white man in human existence have been presented.

Cognitive Interpretation of Flower Images in Shu Ting‘s poetry from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor

Cognitive Interpretation of Flower Images in Shu Ting‘s poetry from the Perspective of Conceptual Metaphor