This paper describes a suite of tools for extracting conventionalized metaphors in English, Spanish, Farsi, and Russian. The method depends on three significant resources for each language: a corpus of conventionalized metaphors, a table of conventionalized conceptual metaphors (CCM table), and a set of extraction rules. Conventionalized metaphors are things like escape from poverty and burden ...

This article aims to investigate grammatical metaphor representation in news item text of Jakarta Post. research was conducted by applying a descriptive design. The data were taken from Post entitled “BREAKING: 189 people on downed Lion Air flight, ministry says.” published October 29, 2018 sites. then analyzed coding the lexical as congruent and incongruent ones. From Post, finding is Represen...

among factors that might manipulate translators’ mind while producing a text is the notion of ideology transmission through text or talk. adopting critical discourse analysis (cda) with particular emphasis on the framework of van dijk (1999), the present investigation is an attempt to shed light on the relationship between language and ideology involved in translation in general, and more speci...

The aim of this article is to contribute knowledge about how figurative language from literary texts negotiated through oral interaction in second-language instruction. material consists transcriptions recordings a classroom study basic adult instruction involving two teachers and their student groups. Theories semantic waves discursive mobility are used explore visualize shifts between concret...

Covid-19 has exerted a significant impact on people’s life and health. Former coronavirus-related studies are mainly done through the lens of cognitive linguistics, especially Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor Theory. This study focuses ideational grammatical metaphors in American news, taking New York Times as corpus for qualitative quantitative analysis. The combines current issues concernin...

Metaphors in idioms are universal in languages. The progression from conceptual meaning to metaphorical meaning is a cognitive activity of mapping from one thing to another. This paper, based on the analysis of 2,347 metaphorical idioms, their linguistic features, grammatical structures, grammatical functions, and semantic categories, tries to identify categories of metaphorical idioms. Most of...