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Download full textPankhurst, Anne – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1995
This study considers some problems of reference found in figurative language, particularly in metaphor and metonymy. Analysis is based on the notion that the effects communicated by figurative language depend to a large extent on reference to more than one concept, experience, or entity, and that the presence of multiple potential referents…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Iwamoto, Noriko – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1995
An analysis of war reporting in Japan during World War II examines, from a semantico-syntactic perspective, how language is used to systematize, transform, and sometimes mask reality. In wartime, a strong form of solidarity and control is essential as a device for unification and for maintaining popular morale. The approach is based in the notion…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grammar
