Seeing red: poetry and metaphor as responses to representational challenges in critical narrative research

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Iconicity and metaphor in sign language poetry

This paper explores a unique relationship between iconicity and metaphor: that seen in creative sign language, where iconic properties abound at all levels of linguistic representation. We use the idea of ‘iconic superstructure’ to consider the way that metaphoric meaning is generated through the iconic properties of creative sign language. We focus on the interaction between the overall contex...

Portuguese Narrative Poetry

Metaphor Detection in a Poetry Corpus

Metaphor is indispensable in poetry. It showcases the poet’s creativity, and contributes to the overall emotional pertinence of the poem while honing its specific rhetorical impact. Previous work on metaphor detection relies on either rulebased or statistical models, none of them applied to poetry. Our method focuses on metaphor detection in a poetry corpus. It combines rule-based and statistic...

Like/as: metaphor and meaning in bioethics narrative.

We would like to thank Cynthia Cohen for her critique of the report of the first stages of the NIH Roadmap Grant on Oncofertility, which is just in the first years of the animal modeling phase, although the research is continuing to unfold beyond the stage at which this first article, which sought to lay out the critical questions in the field, was written. Cohen has long been attentive to the ...