Metaphorical Style Research Articles

Affective Engagement with Metaphor in Introductory Statistics Education

Metaphor is a popular pedagogical tool to help learners understand unfamiliar concepts, but its affective and interactional qualities remain underexplored compared to its cognitive benefits. This study investigates how metaphor may enhance affective engagement within introductory statistics education for linguistics students. As previous research tends to rely on delayed and self-reported data, this study employs a mixed-methods approach that combines real-time physiological measures of engagement with feedback through surveys and interviews. It compares metaphorical and literal instructional styles for teaching simple linear regression, focusing on: i) differences in teacher and learner skin conductance levels, ii) teacher-learner synchrony through skin conductance concordance, iii) the relationship between physiological measures and affect-related survey responses, and iv) learner reflections on their experiences. Results show that the metaphorical style is associated with higher engagement levels and stronger teacher-learner synchrony, affirming the role of metaphors in enhancing collaborative learning when elaborated over time in spontaneous interactive fashion. However, the qualitative data reveal nuanced learner perceptions, highlighting the importance of clearly communicating the scope of metaphor use. This study contributes to understanding the interplay between affective and cognitive engagement in metaphorical learning, offering practical recommendations for its effective implementation in complex subjects like statistics.

Spiritual Healing: Ragam Bahasa Balian Sebagai Salah Satu Pelestarian Tradisi Lokal di Bali

This research aims to identify the language varieties of Balian and the factors that influence these language varieties. This research is descriptive qualitative with a linguistic and pragmatic theory approach used by Balian. Data collection was done by in-depth interviews with Balians in the hotel. The collected data were then transcribed and thematically coded to identify patterns in language use, such as the use of language, the use of metaphorical language styles, and the sentence structure used. The results found that the balian language variety when communicating with clients is the use of affirmative language, the use of spiritual metaphor style, and the use of imperative sentence structure to direct the client's experience and emotional response during the healing process. Meanwhile, the factors that influence balian language varieties are cultural, spiritual, social, economic, and personal factors. An understanding of these factors helps explain how balians navigate between local traditions and the needs of their clients, as well as how they integrate different elements of language to create effective and meaningful healing experiences. Future studies go more in-depth into analyzing balian language use when viewed pragmatically and therapeutically.

Transplantologia a ontologia – Intruz Jeana-Luka Nancy’ego

This article presents an analysis of Jean-Luc Nancy’s essay L’Intrus (2002), a personal reflection on illness and the experience of heart transplantation. The analysis combines two approaches (though the first of them is given more prominence). Firstly, L’Intrus is treated as philosophical-literary pathography, where the reader’s attention is engrossed by the lived experience of illness and its linguistic representation – a sophisticated, elliptical, metaphorical style which exposes the altering intrusiveness of both the med-ical condition and the treatment (implanting an ‘alien’ organ). Secondly, L’Intrus is read in the context of Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical reflection proper. The essay’s linguistic manipulation of singular and plural are interpreted as an echo of his philosophical position put forth in Être singulier pluriel. The totally individual experience of illness and suffering exposes the underlying ontological validity of ‘being-with’ others. The in-sight that there is no being (Dasein) without ‘being-with’ (Mitsein) leads in effect to a revision of a number of key philosophical concepts like the Self / the Other, the subject, identity, nature and technology (ecotechnology).

«Вехи» Д. П. Святополк-Мирского в историческом пространстве русской литературы

The aim of the research is to determine the specifics of D. S. Mirsky’s speech worldview, the metaphorical style of his scientific thinking, which are relevant and insufficiently studied aspects of his creative heritage. The paper analyses the literary discourse of D. S. Mirsky, in particular, catalogues the techniques of stylistic summarisations and their author’s individual terminological expression using the material of “A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1925” in the context of methodological searches of criticism of the Russian émigré community. The author emphasises the genre originality of the scientific work, which reflected the following oppositions: general/separate, original/translated, personal/nonpersonal, aesthetic/sociological. The scientific novelty of the concept lies in identifying the functions of Mirsky’s narrative techniques and critical optics, combining micro- and macropoetic worlds, a view of Russian literature from the outside and from within the national tradition. The research findings showed how, through the techniques of stylistic compression, metaphorical imagery and narrative reduction, the author’s individual vision of the artistic ontology and conceptology of Russian literature, its vice versa and modus vivendi, is formed and formulated by Mirsky.

الاستعارة في الأحاديث النبوية من كتاب اللؤلؤ والمرجان

This study aims to determine the isti'arah language style (metaphor) in the hadith of the Prophet from the book Al-Lukluk wa Al-Marjan. This research is a literature research that uses descriptive analytical method. The descriptive approach is based on the study of scientific sources related to the topic, while the analytical method is based on scientific analysis of the hadiths of the Prophet SAW. which is included in the metaphorical style as well as the opinions of scholars and balaghah experts. The results of this study indicate that metaphors in the Prophet's hadith from the book Al-Lukluk wa Al-Marjan are widespread in various topics, including in the chapters of aqidah, worship, mu'amalat, morals and others. This research has confirmed the fluency of the isti'arah language style, including Al-Ijaz which is to give many meanings with short words, including visualizing a meaning and giving descriptions of things that are abstract, especially those related to the unseen, where meaning is transformed into something that is alive or moving images and characters so that it is easier to digest in the mind, because something that can be sensed will have a stronger impact and further emphasize the meaning.

The concept of messianic time by Walter Benjamin and its political implications

Despite Benjamin’s “renaissance” in contemporary research literature, the meaning of the concept of Jetztzeit(“Now-time”), one of his key political and philosophical concepts, remains vague, largely due to the tendency of researchers to follow Benjamin‘s narrative and metaphorical style. The author of this article purposely uses a strict analytical approach to capture the key characteristics of the concept and their relationship to each other. To do this, the concept is analyzed in the first part of the article through the prism of the related concepts of “messianic time” and “kairos time”. In the second part, the author traces the possible political implications of different interpretations of the concept itself and its connection with Benjamin’s concept of “divine violence”, showing that different interpretations lead to diametrically-opposite perceptions of Benjamin’s position, from a supporter of “pure criticism” to an activist of “direct actions”. In conclusion, the significant role of the Benjamin project as an alternative to the “mainstream” of the Frankfurt School (Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer) is pointed out in the context of today’s prospects for the revival of the Marxist political utopia.

Transcreating the decolonial fragment

Novel written by Innu author Naomi Fontaine, Kuessipan (2011) has found another life as a movie in 2019. This transcreation by Myriam Verreault has received very little critical attention despite prestigious prizes and as interesting as daring transcreative qualities. However, transcreating Kuessipan had quite strong chances of being a failure considering, first, its style, then, its project – far from being narrated chronologically, this “novel” offers a poetic representation, through descriptions and portraits, of the life in the reservation and its inhabitants’ fate. Moreover, as a text dedicated to allochtoon readers, the problem of the destination was not minor. This corpus hence raises several questions: how was it possible to transcreate (1) the specificities of the fragments; (2) the dedication; (3) the elliptic and metaphorical style, conserving an important place to the Innu language; (4) the decolonial project that transpires from Kuessipan, novel and film?

The Contribution of Metaphor to Islamic Education Learning

This study was conducted as an attempt to show that the Qur'an was revealed by using a high, charming, and touching language style through one of the grammatical elements, namely the metaphorical style. This study uses library research. The analysis is carried out by referring to the sciences of Indonesian grammar, Arabic, and Arabic-English Dictionary Quranic Usage: Handbook of Oriental Studies by Elsaid M. Badawi and Muhammad Abdel Haleem. Then some verses of the Qur'an are taken as examples of metaphors. This study found that the Qur'an as a competency learned in Islamic religious education (Pendidikan Agama Islam/PAI) learning has many metaphorical elements that are less aware of its existence. The metaphorical style of language becomes one of the tools to translate the Qur'an properly and correctly.

Интуиция магического в теории: “Медленное чтение” М.О. Гершензона

M.O. Gershenzon theorized that poetry is a magic action which appeals directly to “the primal myth”. The primal myth in the poetic word is opposed to metaphorical meaning in its rhetorical sense (as A.A. Potebnja described it). A poet sees an invisible world and really believes in the existence of ghosts (Gershenzon stated this in The Poet’s Vision, Pushkin’s Wisdom, Gulfstream, etc.). The magic poetic word of antiquity is no longer accessible to the understanding of the modern reader. Therefore, Gershenzon thought, a scholar / exegete must have congenial intuition in order to reveal the word from under layers of obliterated metaphors. It is ironic that for many decades this view was realized as a metaphorical style of thinking, almost destroying itself. But the theoretical ideas connected with this view went unnoticed (unlike the theory of Russian formalists, who also relied on Potebnja’s ideas about the genesis of metaphor). Gershenzon’s theoretical intuition is based on transference of the properties of the studied subject (the primal myth in a poet’s word) into research itself (attempts to reveal the poetic word’s “spell” through slow reading), making the magic a constructive element of the theory.

Functions of Rhetoric and Figurative Language in Instagram Social Media Skin Care Ads

Instagram is one of the means of information on social media to display an advertisement in the form of images or videos. Instagram is visited by many people, especially teenagers. Many advertisements are displayed on Instagram, one of which is an advertisement for skin care products. Skin care products are in great demand by Indonesian women, especially teenagers, because basically women always want to look beautiful and glowing. The use of language style and the impression that we can catch on skin care product advertisements is one of the things that influence consumers to be interested in buying them. The basis of this research begins with linguistics, namely stylistics. This study aims to examine more deeply, adequately, and comprehensively about alliteration style, hyperbole style, metaphorical style, personification style and function of language style in skin care advertisements on Instagram. The theory used in this research is stylistic theory. The method used in this research is qualitative method. Data collection techniques using documentation, reading and recording. The data analysis technique used is descriptive data analysis technique (processing, analyzing, and interpreting data). The results of the research found in Instagram social media skin care advertisements found that there were forms of rhetorical language styles including alliteration, assonance, asidenton, polysidenton, eroticism and hyperbole. In addition, figurative language styles were also found including simile, personification, synecdoche, and metonymy. The language style function found aims to explain, strengthen and bring life to inanimate objects in Instagram social media skin care advertisements.

Mehaničko u romanu "Let iznad kukavičjeg gnezda"

The paper compares people and the living world with the mechanical and inanimate world in Ken Kesey's novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. The use of mechanical terminology, comparison of men to robots, and human behavior and human relations to the work of a machine in an industrial environment is not unusual for the twentieth-century literature, especially science fiction, given the development of technology and science: connection of distant parts on the planet, conquering of the space, and splitting of the atom. The man has made a remarkable progress in the field of science, but the question arises whether he has remained the same during that process, or whether he has "gazed into the abyss" for too long. The analysis that follows raises the question whether the use of mechanical in the novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is a metaphor or something more. To talk about metaphorical use, we will refer to the paper Metaphor and Mind Style in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by authors Elena Semino and Kate Swindlehurst. On the other hand, we will refer to the ideas of Erich Fromm from a number of his books to show that the mentioned comparison is not only a stylistic figure, but the refection of the process of changing of human nature.

Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata

Among the metaphors that Plato employed in the context of his apophatic approach to philosophical truth and its experience, inebriation stands out in the Symposium, where famously Socrates is compared to Dionysian figures such as the Silenoi and Marsyas (215a-c), and to frenzied Corybantic dancers (215e; 216d; 218b). The contentious nature of inebriation as a proxy of ecstasy is aptly exemplified in Euripides’ Bacchae, where Pentheus, the distrusting new tyrant of Thebes, is keen to associate the Bacchic trance with common intoxication and lewd behavior; although Plato tries to anticipate such criticisms by repeatedly stating in the Symposium that Socrates is sober and of sound mind (e.g., 214a; 216d; 219d; 220a), later authors are unforgiving of his metaphorical style, which is deemed inconsistent with Plato’s stern disapproval of poetry. Among such later authors, Lucian of Samosata deserves closer attention apropos his treatment of inebriation as a most confusing and inappropriate metaphor for philosophical inspiration. Despite the jocular style of his dialogues, Lucian’s depiction of Platonic inebriation powerfully sketches a deep intellectual crisis that especially afflicts the young people of his time. Thus, Lucian sheds unexpected light on a less prominent chapter of Plato’s reception during the Roman imperial period.

ANALISIS GAYA BAHASA PADA ANTOLOGI LIRIK “BINGUNG” KARYA IKSAN SKUTER

The study is based on the unique nature of each creation of lyrics that contain both intrinsic and extrinsic elements in each line. The goal of this research isn't to analyze the language style on a dazed lyric antology book by icsan scooter. Researchers analyze the lyrics using a descriptive approach. The source of the data used by researchers is that of 5 lyrics from a total of 60 lyrics. Researchers focused 6 figures of speech on the study: metaphor, personification, hyperbole, anafora, epistrophur and asonansi. Research data is summed up: (1) lyrics with the most grammatical usage are those that are entitled confused with a total of 25 different language styles. The lyrics with the least grammatical usage are those titled shankara with a total of 9 different language styles. (2) the metaphorical style is 11, as many as 10 personified, 11 of hyperbole, anafora as many as 8, epistrofa as 4, and 23 as of assonance. With a total of 67 figures of speech on the five lyrics that have been analyzed.

Some Stylistic Aspects of Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tales

Nowadays stylistic analysis of prose fiction is quite actual, as with the help of the studies we are able to identify the writing style of a writer and figure out his/her characteristics; also to study the individual traits of writer’s works. On the basis of the stylistic studies, we can find out what stylistic devices or literary terms are used by the author; what makes his works so emotive, expressive and distinctive. Given article deals with the stylistic aspects of one of the famous English poets and writers Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales. For the research we have chosen the “The Happy Prince”, “The Selfish Giant”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Devoted Friend” . In the given work we tried to investigate and study the characteristic features of his works, the writer’s writing style and language of the tales and those stylistic devices which are used in above mentioned fairy-tales. Based on the research of the fairy-tales revealed that Oscar Wilde’s writing style is really distinctive and impressive as he uses a variety of literary or stylistic devices, that catches a reader’s attention. It should be mentioned that his lingual abilities are limitless and they are characterized by great emotiveness and expressiveness; consequently, he makes a strong impression on readers and makes them feel a part of the story. It is worth mentioning that Oscar Wilde’s fairy tales are based on personification, as there we find a great variety of its examples. There are also used repetition, parallel constructions and metaphors. Wilde, with his individual imagery and metaphorical style, immerses the reader in a sea of emotions, as his fairy tales are distinguished by the strong emotiveness and expressiveness. Those legendary fairy tales can obviously be considered as the greatest gift for readers, as he perfectly builds an emotional connection between the reader and characters.

Epistemology and Ethics in Zhuangzi

On a prima facia reading, Zhuangzi seems to endorse some form of skepticism or relativism. This seems at odds with Zhuangzi as one of the two main sources of classical Daoism, considering the ideals of virtue and self-development promoted by that philosophy. However, Zhuangzi’s metaphorical and allegorical style lends itself to a number of interpretations of his epistemology, as well as the kind of self-knowledge and ethical development it might allow. A survey of the relevant literature shows that the epistemological debate is not easily solvable, but by narrowing the range of interpretations, a coherent picture of his ethics begins to emerge, one in which some form of knowledge, especially self-knowledge, is still possible, as is an ethics of self-actualization.

POSTMODERN VISION OF THE WORLD IN MODERN LITERATURE

The leading trends in the world literary process are summarized in the article based on the analysis of modern Kazakh, Belarusian and Finnish literature, which are characterized by new approaches to the interpretation of reality, reflecting the postmodern world view. Prose writers and poets build complex spatio-temporal relationships in literary texts, when pictures of the past replace the present, complementing and concretizing what has already happened. The transformation of the structure of the work of art, the chain of incredible coincidences and repetitions, the lyrical-autobiographical nature of the narrative, the metaphorical style, mythological imagery make it possible to fancifully interweave pictures of reality and fiction. The authors continue the experiment with the language and text, graphic design in different fonts, the inclusion of SMS messages, visuals, editing and clip series of images. A characteristic feature of the works is autobiography. The theme of family, childhood and gender policy is becoming a leading topic in modern Finnish and Belarusian literature. The literary text comes closer to the media text. Belarusian, Kazakh and Finnish literature are active participants in the world literary process. A postmodern vision of the world opens up new possibilities for creating characters of heroes and entering into dialogue thanks to new literary translations.

REPRESENTATION OF IDEOLOGY IN INDONESIAN PROGRAMS LAWYER CLUB (ILC) tvOne BASED ON MICROSTRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE MODEL TEUN A. VAN DIJK

The problem formulation in this study is how is the Representation of Ideology in tvOne's Indonesia Lawyer Club (ILC) Program based on the microstructure of critical discourse analysis model Teun A. van Dijk?. The purpose of this research is to describe the Representation of Ideology in the Program Indonesia Lawyer Club (ILC) tvOne based on the microstructure of the analysis of the discourse ktiris Model Teun A. van Dijk. The method used is descriptive research method with qualitative approach. This research data is the speeches of speakers in the talk show Program Indonesia Lawyer Club episode 03 December 2019 with the theme "Back and Forth FPI Permit". This study used the technique of transcribing ILC video talk shows and grouping ILC talk show transcription data into the structure/level of van Dijk's microstructure discourse. The structure or elements presented by Van Dijk to be analyzed are about thematic (theme or topic), schematic (schematic or plot), semantics (background, details, intent, preconceivedence, nominations), syntax (sentence form, cohesion, pronouns), stilistic (lexicon) and rhetoric (graphics, metaphors, expressions). The results showed that each structure/element is an ideological representation of semantics involving the background used in each segment of the ILC show. This can be revealed in more detail through each question thrown by the host, Karni Ilyas. These sentences use conjunctions that connect the causes spoken by the sources and can also be marked by the use of pronouns. A stilistic ideological representation of Islamophobia that states that there are people or groups of people who are very anti with Islam, they want to divide the Indonesian nation. The rhetorical ideological representation in each segment can be seen from the expressions of the speakers who are sometimes relaxed, focused and there are also two tensions between the speakers. In representing its ideology, speakers use distinctive language styles, such as the metaphorical style "smoke grenade", "islamophobia", and "belling/selebre case".

Stylistics of Sasha Sokolov’s Novels “School for Fools” and “Palisandria” (“Astrophobia”): Is It a Tribute Paid to Vladimir Nabokov’s Tradition or Typological Convergence?

The paper analyses stylistics of two famous novels by Sasha Sokolov published in the USA: “School for Fools” (1976, 1977) and “Astrophobia” (1985). The first one was highly appreciated by Vladimir Nabokov who saw a close affinity of its poetics with his own style of writing though before emigration Sokolov couldn’t gain access to his books. However the insane marginal hero fully immersed in his own fantasy and hallucinations, numerous double-characters, repeated key-words and symbolic details creating metaphoric style of writing, the multi-layered intertextuality, literary allusions, etc. – all these artistic means happened to be just similar typical features of their novels. But as the author of the article states, such poetic similarity manifests only their multiform typological convergence. A grotesque parody on “Lolita” and “Ada” – “Palisand­ria”, written in exile, on the contrary carries the peculiarities of Nabokov’s poetics to the point of absurdity by means of the same creative approach – postmodernism.

GAYA BAHASA PADA LIRIK-LIRIK LAGU KARYA IWAN FALS DALAM ALBUM 50:50 2007

This research aims to find the type, function, and meaning of any language style contained in the song lyrics of Iwan Fals album 50:50 2007. This study examines each song lyrics contained therein, and grouping them according to the type of language style, as well as studying its function, then knowing the meaning to be conveyed through the lyrics of the song. This study uses a qualitative approach using content analysis methods. The researcher first collected data in the form of song lyrics, then conducted an analysis of the linguistic style of song lyrics by Iwan Fals in the 50:50 2007 album to find the function of the type of language style found, as well as what meaning was contained in it. The research results found by researchers namely in the 50:50 2007 album found 3 types of language style groups, namely: (1) comparative language styles, (2) conflicting language styles, (3) affirmative language styles. Of all the existing language styles, the author is more dominant to use a metaphorical language style in conveying the message to be conveyed through the lyrics of the song. By finding the style of language in the lyrics of the song, the reader can understand the message conveyed. The results found by researchers, the 50:50 album by Iwan Fals is more dominant using the style of the metaphorical language. The use of metaphorical style of language is considered to represent the feelings of the writer to be conveyed to the listener or reader.

Writing the Body: Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald's Resistance in Save Me the Waltz

Abstract This article explores the desire for self-expression that Zelda Fitzgerald's novel Save Me the Waltz represents by drawing a parallel between the heroine's decision to take up ballet dancing and the author's own attempt to write a book that would be her own and not mere autobiographical material from a renowned artist's wife. The body looms large in such an attempt as it marks a border between self and other, and Alabama Beggs Knight's desire to control and shape her body is a metaphor for control over her own life. Likewise, Zelda Fitzgerald's dense and highly metaphorical style, which has often been criticized as excessively verbose and labored and which can make for difficult reading, is an attempt to work on the body of her text, giving the resisting material of language a shape and rhythm of her own. This is a long and difficult process that confronts the artist, ballet dancer, or writer, with the ever-threatening dissolution of self and other, and the subsequent collapse of meaning. Relying on Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject, this article shows how the body's turn from object to abject is a necessary and difficult step toward creation and marks Alabama's and Zelda Fitzgerald's progressive inscriptions as subjects acknowledging “lack” as constitutive of language and self. However, conveying this lack and negotiating the fraught relationship between self and other remains a demanding and ongoing challenge and may account for the sometimes missed encounter of this very personal book with its readers.