America, rock musician T. Nugent tried to rally support for the Republican candidate at a
National Rifle Association meeting in St. Louis by announcing a vigorous campaign against …

Theoretical and methodological challenges presented by studying metaphor in its discourse
environment are addressed. Complex dynamic systems theory provides a theoretical …

Body-language-communication Body Language Communication HSK 38.2 Page 2 Handbücher
zur Sprach-und Kommunikationswissenscha t Handbooks o Linguistics and Communication …

How can a gesture be metaphoric? We will begin to answer the question by considering a
gesture that was famously set in stone. The image in Figure 27.1 is that of a statue of …

Metaphor is a central component of human cognition. Research on metaphor's role in
politics has thus far focused predominately on metaphors used by the political elite. While …

Until a century ago, a metaphor was just a mere figure of speech, but since the development
of discourse analysis, a metaphor has become more than merely incidental to the content of …

Conceptual metaphor theory and other important theories in metaphor research are often
experimentally tested by studying the effects of metaphorical frames on individuals' …

Signalling one of the new directions now emerging alongside (Critical) Discourse Analysis,
Jim Martin and David Rose (2003) have called for more Positive Discourse Analysis. PDA …

本文通过详细介绍批评认知语言学的目标, 理论和应用以及方法论对该学科的研究背景和现状做
了系统呈现. 文章从隐喻, 图式图像, 话语世界以及认知视角等角度把批评认知语言学分成了四类 …

The present analysis investigates the discursive redefinitions of the folkhem conceptual
metaphor, which accommodates centrally located heteronormative masculinities at the …