This paper aligns with a field of research that deals with the use of multi-modal metaphors from a cognitive-discursive perspective. In this context, we aim to investigate the role played by images in the instantiation of ...

Metaphor is more a mechanism of conceiving the world than merely a rhetorical device. Studies of metaphor have been entirely renewed since 1980s and evinced by Lakoff and Johnsons (1980) book, named Metaphors We Live by, ...

Metaphor has been widely researched within the realm of Cognitive Linguistics, having as major landmarks Lakoff’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Fauconnier and Turner’s Mental Space based analysis. Nevertheless, specific ...

This paper analyses autobiographical narratives of 14 female and 2 male secondary school teachers of English, employed at schools in the new education sector of Trinidad and Tobago and enrolled in an inservice postgraduate ...

This work intends to present the development of Ricoeur s theories of mimesis and representation, which he has built upon the concept of semantic innovation linked to metaphor. With Ricoeur, we followed the incorporation ...

Abstract: In this study the author is concerned with the relation between philosophy and metaphors, and on the contribution of feminist philosophy to the ongoing discussion about the status of metaphors in philosophical ...