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The role of motor system in action-related language comprehension in L1 and L2: An fMRI study

2018

The framework of embodied cognition has challenged the modular view of a language-cognition divide by suggesting that meaning-retrieval critically involves the sensory-motor system. Despite extensive research into the neural mechanisms underlying language-motor coupling, it remains unclear how the motor system might be differentially engaged by different levels of linguistic abstraction and language proficiency. To address this issue, we used fMRI to quantify neural activations in brain regions underlying motor and language processing in Chinese-English speakers’ processing of literal, metaphorical, and abstract language in their L1 and L2. Results overall revealed a response in motor ROIs …

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Developing a metatheoretical framework for second language development : a cultural-historical theory and dynamic systems theory perspective

2017

The main aim of this article-based dissertation is to construct and articulate a dialectical metatheoretical architecture for the study of second language development termed Purposive-Historical Systems Theory (PHiST) invoking, inter alia, the axiomatic imperatives of dynamic systems theory (DST), Vygotskian cultural-historical theory (CHT), and Pepperian root metaphor theory (RMT). Specifically, it primarily purports, first, to demonstrate the tenability of a dialectical synthesis of DST and CHT; second, to philosophize on the fundamental contours of PHiST; third, to apply a novel metatheoretical perspective, as a quintessential example, to reconceptualizing the seminal construct of the Zo…

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Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, Vol.11

2021

translation historymultilingualismDavid LodgeJ. M. Coetzee - authorshipconceptual metaphorEnglish grammar acquisitiontime deixis:HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Languages and linguistics::Other Germanic languages::English language [Research Subject Categories]blended learningDefoe - authorshipEnglish-medium instruction
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La traduction des métaphores: le cas de Kassandra de Christa Wolf

2012

This paper analyzes, in a comparative way, the conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 1998) used in the German text «Kassandra» of Christa Wolf and in its Italian translation. The metaphors’ translation is important for two reasons. First it shows the socio-cultural aspects that turn around the source language and the target language. On the other hand, it can investigate the role of the language and the linguistic choices. This paper will analyze the metaphors’ translations using a mixed approach, both cognitive linguistics and semiotics but it also focuses on the translation theories. The analysis of metaphors allows us to understand better the comprehension of communicative intentiona…

translation metaphors conceptual metaphors cognitive linguistics semioticsSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Fremdheit und Anderssein in ausgewählten Pressediskursen zum Flüchtlingsproblem

2019

Artykuł przedstawia wyniki analizy wybranych dyskursów prasowych dotyczących aktualnej problematyki uchodźczej. Celem artykułu jest znalezienie odpowiedzi na następujące pytania: 1) W jaki sposób problem uchodźców jest wyrażony językowo w wybranych zbiorach tekstów? 2) Jakie cechy charakterystyczne nadaje uchodźcom prasa i jak są oni oceniani? 3) Jakie różnice i podobieństwa można zaobserwować w opisie problematyki uchodźców w oparciu o wybrane zbiory tekstów?

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Human conceptualisation processes as a perspective on the design and evaluation of user-interfaces

2013

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Fragmentation in International Law and Global Governance : A Conceptual Inquiry

2017

This article examines the concept and metaphor of fragmentation and its underlying assumptions in international law and global governance. After engaging with fragmentation historically, we analyze current debates through five conceptual perspectives. Fragmentation is often perceived as a process, a gradation, a process with a single direction, a prognosis, and normatively as either loss or liberation. These interlinked tendencies carry conceptual implications, such as making fragmentation apparently inevitable or provoking positive revaluations of fragmentation in terms of differentiation. Furthermore, the conceptual coupling of fragmentation with modernity enhances these effects with an h…

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A modern Pearl Harbor : a critical metaphorical analysis of news reporting the war in Afganistan

2002

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Metamorphosis of Euro Metaphors: The power of mathematical models and drama in economics storytelling.

2013

valuutatfinancial crisiseurometaforatmetaphorastaloustieteetfinanssikriisitaloustiede
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Język metaforyczny w modelu Wrocławskiej Szkoły Przyszłości

2020

W niniejszym artykule poszukuję odpowiedzi na pytanie: Jakie są sensy i znaczenia metafor we Wrocławskiej Szkole Przyszłości (WSP)? Ukazuję zastosowanie języka metaforycznego w szkole, gdzie metaforę traktuje się jako źródło wiedzy o otaczającym świecie, jako swoiste wspomaganie efektywniejszej komunikacji oraz jako stymulator wyobraźni. We WSP uważa się, że dziecko nie musi być skazane na edukację opartą na stereotypowych zachowaniach. Uważa się tam, że w procesie edukacji potrzebne jest myślenie kreatywne, oparte na rozmaitych skojarzeniach, w których wykorzystywana jest umiejętność tworzenia mapy myśli, wyobraźni, czyli tzw. edukacja z wyobraźnią. Taką edukację we Wrocławskiej Szkole Prz…

wyobraźniaalternative educationmetaforyschooledukacja alternatywnametaphorsszkołaimaginationStudia z Teorii Wychowania
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