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Cognitive theory of metaphor and idiom analysis

Dmitrij Dobrovol’skij
E-mail: dmitrij.dobrovolskij@assoc.oeaw.ac.at
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6968
Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Russian Language, Department of Experimental Lexicography, Moscow

Elisabeth Piirainen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4531-6968
Abstract: We wish to establish to what extent the methods of analysis developed within the framework of the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor (CTM) can be applied to idiom analysis. Conventionalised figurative metap...
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Metaphor and metonymy in legal texts

Adisa Imamović
E-mail: adisa.imamovic@untz.ba
Sveučilište u Tuzli
Abstract: Legal discourse has been studied so far by numerous linguists and legal experts. Linguistic studies have predominantly focused on stylistic elements of the legal register, such as morphological and sy...
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A note on the career of metaphorical domains: On the role of the XYZ constructions in metaphorical transfer reversal

Mario Brdar
E-mail: mbrdar@ffos.hr
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-4285
Filozofski fakultet Osijek

Rita Brdar-Szabó
ELTE Budapest

Tanja Gradečak
Filozofski fakultet Osijek
Abstract: One of most dominant conceptual metaphors used to talk about the COVID-19 across languages and cultures is the WAR metaphor, but many other metaphors have been attested, exploiting a wide range of sou...
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Analiza imeničkih složenica u engleskom jeziku građevinske struke sa stajališta tehničke poruke

Ivana Špiranec
E-mail: ivanaspiranec1@gmail.com
Tehničko veleučilište u Zagrebu
Abstract: U korpusu od 1116 dvorječnih engleskih imeničkih složenica imenica + imenica iz područja građevinarstva analiziraju se nazivi sa stajališta tehničke poruke. Riječ je o nazivima koji nastaju kombiniran...
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Negativni intenzifikatori i njihovi pozitivni kolokati u hrvatskome jeziku: metaforičke kolokacije i uporaba među hrvatskom mladeži

Sanja Škifić
E-mail: sskific@unizd.hr
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9858-7852
Sveučilište u Zadru

Anita Pavć Pintarić
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5105-9999
Sveučilište u Zadru
Abstract: Ovaj se rad bavi istraživanjem odabranih negativnih intenzifikatora (brutalno, jezivo, ludo, očajno, odurno, odvratno, prokleto, strahovito, strašno, stravično, užasno) i njihovih pozitivnih kolokata ...
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What do we do with (to) laws and what do laws do to us: A contrastive corpus-based approach to the analysis of metaphorical collocations of the terms law, Gesetz and zakon

Katja Dobrić Basaneže
E-mail: katja.dobric.basaneze@unipu.hr
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Puli
Abstract: This paper analyses metaphorical collocations of the terms law in enTenTen20, Gesetz in deTenTen20 and zakon in hrwac 2.2. from a contrastive corpus-based perspective. The hypothesis states that metap...