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Kohler, Alan Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Metonymic and metaphoric language are thoroughly present in everyday language, so much so that they hold in themselves strong explanatory capacity to uncover and even influence underlying individual or social/cultural ideological systems and beliefs about the world around us (Catalano & Waugh, 2013; 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Higher Education, Language Usage, Figurative Language
Shaver, Stephen R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One of the most challenging questions in ecumenical liturgical theology is how the relationship between the eucharistic bread and wine and Jesus Christ's body and blood can be appropriately described. In this dissertation, I take a new approach to this longstanding issue by drawing upon the field of cognitive linguistics. Based on this field, I…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Figurative Language, Christianity, Sensory Experience
Hawley, Lance R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Within the book of Job, the interlocutors (Job, the friends, and Yahweh) seem to largely ignore one another's arguments within their dialogical discourse. This observation leads some to propose that the dialogue lacks conceptual coherence. I argue that the interlocutors tangentially attend to previously stated points-of-view and attempt to…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Biblical Literature, Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse
Daoud, Sumaya – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study examines formulaic politeness expressions used in Jordanian Arabic by looking into two salient features that characterize this set of idioms: figuration and traces of religious texts. One main goal is to explore the conceptual metaphors that are represented in these idioms and show their coherence and consistency with cultural values.…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Semitic Languages, Religious Factors, Islam
Ahmed, Yunana – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In this dissertation, I conceptualize a rhetorical and linguistic analysis of politics from a decolonial framework (Mignolo, 2011; Smith, 2012). My analysis draws on classical rhetoric (Aristotle, 2007), cultural rhetoric (Mao, 2014; Powell, et al., 2014; Yankah, 1995), and linguistics (Chilton, 2004) to reveal the different ways ideological and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Figurative Language, Interdisciplinary Approach, Morphemes
Turcat, Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Maxims are famous for their moral pronouncements, yet La Rochefoucauld's "Maximes" (1678) have become infamous for offering little moral guidance. Morally ambivalent at best, the "Maximes" are also less known for their other forms of ambivalence, whether rhetorical, psychological, anthropological or linguistic. Such are…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Rhetoric, Literary Devices, Figurative Language
Nickels, Edelmira L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Linguistics research has demonstrated the commonness and functions of metaphors to carry cognitive frames, which influence the way people understand and act on information. This work conveys the results of three analyses employed to describe cognitive frames: forms of linguistic metaphors used, functions of systematic metaphors that emerged, and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Figurative Language, Language Usage, Politics
Al-Zuraiki, Mokhtar – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the use and linguistic behavior of the "al-raqs ala ru'oos al-tha'abeen" "dancing on the heads of snakes" metaphor and metaphors about unity in pro-government and anti-government discourse in Yemen. It adopts an intertextual, discourse-based approach that, following Oakley and Coulson (2008),…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes
Jackson, Micah T. J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Throughout history, preachers have used various models to understand the relationship between the preacher and the hearers of sermons. In recent years, homileticians have responded to the challenges of postmodernism by exploring the metaphor of conversation as a way to develop less hierarchical or authoritarian conceptions of role and authority.…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Research, Pragmatics, Persuasive Discourse
Young, Ira George – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the utility and application of the framing devices identified by Fairhurst (1993) and Fairhurst and Sarr (1996) in the college/university setting as evidenced through college/university presidents' speeches. Fifty-seven college/university presidents' speeches were collected from institution…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Public Speaking, Speeches, Discourse Analysis
Peters, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Sarcasm, or sarcastic irony, involves expressing a message that is often opposite of the literal meaning of what is being said, in a way that may sound bitter, or caustic (Gibbs, 1986). In the past, sarcasm has been viewed as a method of introducing the possibility of alternative interpretations of a discourse, by creating ambiguity as to the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Ambiguity (Semantics), Figurative Language, Language Processing
Lopez, Antonio R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Media literacy is touted as a necessary life skill for cultural citizenship, yet as it is generally practiced there is little engagement with sustainability issues. In order to gain insights into why this is the case, this research investigated how media literacy practitioners use metaphors to frame both the role of media education in the world…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Citizenship Education, Sustainability, Ecology
Yanqiu Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the first case study, a piece of recent BBC news reported on Chinese netizens leaving random but funny comments on a Western website attracted people's attention. A closer look at those comments reveals that understanding the Chinese netizens' comments requires metaphorical and cultural knowledge. This study starts with theoretical explanations…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Techniques, Web Sites, Cultural Awareness
de Vries, Peter C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Mark 13 predicts that certain events will occur literally within the generation of Jesus' contemporaries, and today's reader recognizes that some of these events have not taken place. The reader therefore appropriates the text as a false configuration of the world because it describes the world differently from how it is. However, the hermeneutics…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Hermeneutics, Prediction, Discourse Analysis
Teng, Xuan – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Despite the growing interest in examining the link between peer-peer collaborative dialogue and second language (L2) development in recent years (Swain, Brooks, & Tocalli-Beller, 2002), much of the empirical work in this regard focused on face-to-face communication, leaving the operationalization of collaborative dialogue in text-based…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Peer Relationship
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