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Figurative emotional expression in popular science headlines
2016
This study is devoted to science journalism and it explores how audience engagement is achieved through emotion-laden figurative (e.g., metaphorical and metonymic) expressions used in headlines. It is claimed that figurative expressions foreground emotional investments in science reporting while retaining the semblance of journalistic objectivity. With the use of a multiple open-coding procedure of the sample of 250 most read headlines from the website of the international science magazine gathered between November 2013 and November 2014, the main patterns of figuration are identified, including specific and metaphors and such schemata as conduit, event structure, complex system and force d…
European Formalism and Empiriocriticism : Formalism within the International Empiriocritical Movement
2020
Abstract This paper argues that Russian Formalism is to be considered a constitutive part of the international empiriocritical movement—Ernst Mach (1838—1916) and Richard Avenarius’s (1843—1896). The conceptual parallelism between Empiriocriticism and Formalism is striking indeed. Thus, the cornerstones of the empiriocritical approach—the concept of series [Reihe] and the concept of elements [Elemente], understood as sensations [Empfindungen]—are plainly recognizable within formalist theories: the notion of ‘series’ (for example, the notion of ‘literary series’ or ‘poetic series’, leading to the famous concept of ‘literariness’, literaturnost’) and the very formalist idea of a necessarily p…