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Tianfang Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Conceptual Metaphor (CM; e.g., Lakoff & Johnson, 1980, 1999; Kovecses, 2020) is central to our thinking and ubiquitously manifested in our language. Given its importance, the teaching of conceptual metaphors has gained much attention in Cognitive Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. While most empirical studies have focused on specific aspects…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Concept Formation
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
Okunowo, Abayomi Victor – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Osundare's writing is generally acknowledged as coterminous with the contentious issues of language, style and meaning in Anglophone modern African literature, and because he is seen as representing a generation of African writers, this study highlights and analyzes aspects of Osundare's creative processes of meaning for his thematic project.…
Descriptors: African Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, African Culture, Form Classes (Languages)