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Among them teenage pregnancies are rare and often followed by marriage, sometimes at the point of a metaphorical shotgun.

I do not, as is often done, use the word in any vague, uncertain, approximate, or metaphorical sense.

If AIG had shot off its own metaphorical foot to claim a government bail-out, the argument against the bail-out would be compelling.

Of course, signifying condensation, with its metaphorical effect, can be observed quite openly in any poetic metaphor.

It is possible for people of different cultures to give the same or similar metaphorical meaning to same animals or plants.

English drew this word into the language in a metaphorical way about 500 years ago and applied it just as I've been discussing here.

Actually they're linguistic realizations of the metaphorical concept of "Human beings are animals" .

The boundary conditions wait, untested, for out-of-domain data that will permit them to bring your application to its metaphorical knees.

It was no longer the metaphorical centre of some vast and malevolent power.

Assuming Giacometti's metaphorical composition in presenting life and death, he self-heals with a sense of presence found through yoga.

In the aesthetic domain, the synaesthetic image, as a novel metaphorical image, provides much food for the subject's aesthetic experience.

Human body is the cognitive prototypical model of spatial metaphor, and the experience of the body is the base of metaphorical concepts.

The dialogue between St. Peter and Dante in the end of this paragraph implies a more important and deeper metaphorical analogy.

Zheng-Rong Zhao metaphorical sense of vision, and Huang Yong intuitive experience and the transcendental dialogue.

And this is not in some abstract metaphorical sense, all that's separating you from him, from the other person, is your skin.

What are the similarities and dissimilarities of the metaphorical cognitive system between English and Chinese?

In a metaphorical way with high scientific technologies, a city is compared to a living being consisting of body and soul.

Clearly, this is all very metaphorical here with the back yard options.

The study through linguistic expressions especially metaphorical linguistic expressions has always been the focus of cognitive linguistics.

This literal diminution of his stature inevitably reduces his metaphorical stature, too.

Metaphorical competence, alike linguistic competence, is a very important aspect to judge the learners' language proficiency.

Poem is a unique linguistic form with metaphor, so it is called "metaphorical language" .

New Testament language of this kind, as in referring to Jesus as the "Lamb" or "Word" of God, is metaphorical.

As a kind of context, national culture can be a part of the connotation of metaphorical speech.

Davidson denies that there is such a thing as metaphorical meaning.

Therefore, our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

However, not all the models are metaphorical and metaphorical models are not necessarily the appropriate description of objects in research.

The author attempts to analyze the metaphorical meanings of "shanzhai" and its translation from the perspectives of context.

Forth, Correlation of metaphorical representation of love and metaphorical representation of marriage is significant in college students.

The class spent 15 minutes teasing out the metaphorical meaning of a line about "places with no carpet on the floor. "

Her greatest visual and metaphorical creation comes at the climax during the final performance of the ballet.

A serious review of this metaphorical evidence would count up the rainy days and the sunny ones.

Digging deeper into the phenomenon, it is believed that EFL learners are deficiency in metaphorical thinking during the writing process.

This dynamism is also true for idiomatic or metaphorical language and its use in the United States.

It holds dualism, symbolism, symbolic arbitrariness, meaning representation and non-metaphorical meaning.

Mythology adds a richness of detail and a concreteness to metaphorical language.

Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.

According to this metaphorical assumption, contemporary curriculum views could be concluded to two basic kinds: imitation and alienation.

Both lexical metaphor and grammatical metaphor constitute the major components of metaphorical discourse of Scientific English.

Through the research of spoken language in Chinese, the thesis explores the metaphorical features in daily communication.

The peculiarity of the green palette creates a slight distracting yet attractive charisma, metaphorical to Dali's character.

It is believed that the study of this thesis will help readers get a better understanding of metaphorical phenomenon in scientific English.

Yeah that's right. I might be a metaphorical sock.

The killing of pigs & the throwing of rocks provide a metaphorical structure for the illustration of the novel's theme.

Third, difference of metaphorical representation of love are significant in aspects individual, family and love situation.

It may further develop the studies on metaphors, and enrich the metaphorical language teaching theories.

This perspective of metaphor theory to start trying various angles from a metaphorical analysis of the twisters.

the transmission of the speech force, the psychological force, the metaphorical physical force and the subjective force.

The of double reference of metaphorical language in science requires a proper interpretation from existing reference theories.

Only by learning from computer science can traditional Narratology reveal its unlimited metaphorical creative power and vigor.

I hope that the title caught your attention and that you'll read my thoughts about metaphorical banks and the good life.

At the same time, a series of symbolized-topic establishments which contains full of metaphorical means was arranged in the garden routes.

To create their artificial cephalopod they started with the animal's literal and metaphorical killer app: its flexible, pliable arms.

The party leaders are stalling, reluctant to wield their metaphorical axes until they are sure where the chopping would end.

For that reason, there are a large number of expressions with body parts in both English and Chinese, many of which are metaphorical.

It was instead the most conspicuous part of the physical and metaphorical Iron Curtain dividing free and unfree Europe.

Moreover, metaphorical and metonymic sense extensions have their respective mapping models.

I should promise that I use this term in a large and metaphorical sense including dependence of one being on another.

Where's the metaphorical money that matters most to you, and how can you get it?

Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves, and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.

Sometimes his writing has a metaphorical richness that reminds us of the debt Thoreau owes to such authors as Sir Thomas Brown.

But the absence of some metaphorical fishbowl is a recipe for misery, and, I suspect, disaster.

On metaphorical meaning, there are three cases: mutual corresponding Meaning, Partly corresponding Meaning, and semantically different.

Every language is a metaphorical system in essence and metaphor constitutes our system of everyday concepts, especially those abstract ones.

The metaphorical cognition mode is based on human physical experience on both themselves and the outside world as well.

Are they metaphorical (Mary floated across the floor. )?

Real or metaphorical, mountains are for climbing, and you simply have to reach the top.

Human cognitive system is metaphorical in itself. Language, as its reflection, naturally follows suit.

As a unique genre among Chinese idioms, Xiehouyu (hereinafter XHY) contains rich metaphorical meanings.

"To fall flat on your face" is a metaphorical expression meaning to make a big mistake with everybody watching.

Sadly, it's metaphorically true. And the metaphorical truth interferes with our ability to identify it as literally false.

Therefore, Lakoff argues that language is metaphorical in nature and metaphor is prevalent in everyday language.

I know I'm a boy and I don't really have a biological clock, but I have a metaphorical biological clock and that's close enough.

Metaphorical and metonymic sense extensions have their respective features.

Let fear provide the energy and motivation to do what needs to be done to ensure your (metaphorical) survival.

His words are doubtless too metaphorical for today's tastes, but he could be right.

Same referent, different metaphorical meaning; (3) Different referent, same metaphorical meaning.

It is a match, an energetic equal, for the metaphorical force of a medium.

I'm not being metaphorical here. I really do believe that addiction theory applies quite well to social media.

However, non metaphorical idioms should, in general, be fairly safe for globalized interfaces.

make more interesting or flavorful, either in the literal or in a metaphorical sense.

have end in a certain location; either spatial or metaphorical.

Different referent, same metaphorical meaning.

Chapter Four mainly discusses metaphorical meanings of the image of mother.

Perrot likened the vibrant path to a dreamy, metaphorical lover's lane.

These physics concepts will be used in ways both scientifically rigorous and purely metaphorical.

Their solution, described in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is more than a metaphorical analogy to the condom.

They talk in a metaphorical way, touching on the most vital questions of human existence.

The second part discussed the direct and indirect causes for creating the metaphorical comments about person in "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" .

When asked about these curves, they all described them as metaphorical ways of suggesting motion.

He now has three metaphorical gold medals to add to his chestful of real military gongs.

The progression from conceptual meaning to metaphorical meaning is a cognitive activity of mapping from one thing to another.

Metaphorical mapping occurs based on the shared characteristics between source domain and target domain from the abstract to the concrete.

Metaphorical mappings are systematic processes during which experiences are mapped from one domain to another.

Increasingly many Americans see nothing wrong, and in fact something cool and fun, in gayness, literal and metaphorical.

Then try it by making as many verbs as possible metaphorical (embedded metaphors).

The use of symbolic or metaphorical way, resulting in traumatic psychological and visual impact.

Many words and phrases have both literal and metaphorical meaning.

Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

But does an author leave a metaphorical fingerprint on the book?

Thus, political language is metaphorical in essence too.

This is denied by other commentators, who argue that the similarity in family names is either coincidental or metaphorical.

On the Symbolic and Metaphorical Implication of "House"

When you are on a real mountain, you might think about the metaphorical mountain you have to climb in your research.

In daily English dialogues and scripts, there are abundant metaphorical expressions of love.

At first he was using metaphorical language, telling me how a full bucket cannot take any more water.

On the Metaphorical Cognition Mode of "Discourse"

It looks obviously metaphorical, but it doesn't bear unravelling.

The bigger the block, the more time that task will take (and the more metaphorical space it will require in your box).

Why do I stand here, with my hands in my metaphorical pockets.

Most metaphorical extensional instances are based on the central sense and have as their source domain this central sense.

And there are so many metaphorical or literal translations that can be made from these lyrics.

In the aspect of language philosophy, image is a kind of metaphorical discourse.

They can clarify their thinking by taking on a metaphorical perspective.

In a metaphorical way, when we complain or criticize, we are tearing down an undesirable structure in order to make room for something new.

It's both, in my mind, a literal and metaphorical idea.

"I am Moslem , I will not bite you. " which implicates deep metaphorical meaning.

CM: Yes, dear daughter, I am being metaphorical in the largest sense.

Those absurd and taken as real action art was with the metaphorical atmosphere of social prediction and symbolism at that time.

(To Einstein, in a metaphorical way. ) To both, to adore Nature, to study it scientifically, was a devotional act.

I think that's false. Now maybe we want to treat it as metaphorical.

Metaphorical thinking can not only enable people to form words by means of roots and affixes but also expand the meanings of words.

An additional twist is that all of the constructions in English are used not only literally, but in a quasi-metaphorical way.

An Interface Study of Metaphorical Comprehension Mechanism between Truth-condition Theory and Cognitive Semantics

Pragmatic and Psycholinguistic Interpretation of Metaphorical language Comprehension

The Explanatory Power of Conceptual Blending Theory for Poetic Metaphor--A Metaphorical Interpretation of Emily Dickinson's Poems

A Metaphorical Application: the Implication of a Female Kindergarten Director's Leadership

A Cognitive Study of Conceptual Integration in Metaphorical Interpretation

A study of the Inspiration of Metaphorical Cognition to Foreign Language Teaching

Computational Model of Metaphor and its Application in Metaphorical Classification

A Cross- Cultural Study of the Metaphorical Representation of Time

A Preliminary Study of Children's Developmental Trend of Metaphorical Ability of Time

Interpretation and Description of the Metaphorical Cross-reference Mapping in the Framework of Grammar and Concepts

his most famous parables ( or stories with a deep or metaphorical meaning ) include the good samaritan and the prodigal son

unsayability; negative approach; metaphorical language; poetic language; showing;

Constraining Mechanisms of Conceptual Metaphorical Mapping

The Figure-Ground Space Concept and its Metaphorical Representations in the Language

Studies on the Metaphorical Conceptions of Emotional Expressions as Viewed from a Cognitive Perspective

Cognitive Rhetoric Analysis on Metaphorical Advertising Rhetoric

that with the same metaphorical meaning and similar words, motivations, and cultural connotations;

An Analysis of English Metaphorical Structural Type and Its Translation

Metaphor, Metaphorical Competence and Foreign Language Teaching

The Cognitive Features and Translating Strategies of Metaphorical Vocabulary

Implications of Metaphorical Competence for Foreign Language Teaching

Animal idioms of both English and Chinese can be compared in the following three aspects: (1) Same referent, same metaphorical meaning;

Learners, Cognitive Styles and Their Metaphorical Competence

Diagrammatic Iconicity and Metaphorical Iconicity in Language

They coach managers by getting them to build "metaphorical abstractions" of such things as corporate strategy,

Pragmatic Explanations of Metaphorical Meanings

On the Grammaticalization of Metaphorical Chinese Classifiers and English Unit Nouns

The Cognitive Explanation of Metaphorical Phenomenon and the Choice of Metaphorical Entities

Metaphorical Meanings in Orientational Prepositions and their Translation

Analysis of the Motivation of Conversion From the Metaphorical thinking

Application of metaphorical expressionsin contemporary composition of song verses

Construction of metaphorical meanings in animal terms by relevance blending theory

Metaphorical Cognition's Application in Enhancing the Acquisition of Phrasal Verbs

Cultural Differences of Metaphorical Concept and English Teaching

Metaphor, Metaphorical Thinking and Similar Thinking

English Learners'Training in Metaphorical Competence

Metaphorical mechanism of verbal semantic structures

Foreignization and Domestication of Metaphorical Idiom Translation

Metaphorical Analysis of the Lack of Conceptual Fluency and Variety in the Process of Communication

On Russian and Chinese Metaphorical Phrases and their Cultural Differences

A Cognitive Approach to the Metaphorical Relationship between Nature and Women

On Factors of National Culture Causing Differences in Metaphorical Thinking

Social Customs and Metaphorical Idioms Compared Between English and Chinese

The most renowned scientist answered in a metaphorical fashion

The Cultural Connotations of English and Chinese Metaphorical Phrases

Cognitive Analysis of English Spatial Metaphorical Models

The Comparison of Metaphorical Semantics of Animal Terms between English and Chinese

A Comparison on the Metaphorical Meaning of Vocabulary of Space Dimensions in Chinese and Korean

Metaphorical Meanings of Hindi and Chinese Animal Words and Their Translation

The system of arbitrary conception and the systemof metaphorical conception in language

On Metaphorical Translation In Textual Environment

Rethinking on Several Metaphorical Statements of Teacher

The Categorization and Metaphorical Cognition of Basic Colors in Chinese

Vehicle and metaphorical meaning in cultural context of Chinese and English trope

On the existing difference between congruent form and metaphorical form

Metaphorical Thinking and Translation of Chinese Idioms

Approaches to Translation of English Metaphorical Words

Survey of study of metaphorical phrase

A Design of the Cognition of Concepts and Metaphorical Interface

An Empirical Study of the Development of Metaphorical Competence of Chinese English Major Learners

Application of Metaphorical Concept in Economic News Reports

On Metaphorical Thinking and Foreign Language Teaching

The Metaphorical Cognitive Mode of English Subjunctive Mood

The Effect of Consumer's Involvement Level on the Metaphorical Advertising: An Experiment Research

On Metaphorical Thinking of Reading: A Recognitive Linguistic Perspective

The Realistic Sources of Basic Color Lexicon's Metaphorical Meanings

Advanced English Course and the Cognitive Meaning of Metaphorical Words

The Embodiment of Metaphorical Thinking in Natural Science

A Probe into Causes of Metaphorical Meanings in the Cognitive Perspective

Metaphorical Meaning in Chinese and English Seen from Context of Culture

The Characteristics and Development of Children's Metaphorical Thoughts

A Metaphorical Explanation of Chinese and English Animal Terms

Achilles'Metaphorical Meaning in Greek Culture

The Metaphorical Thinking in Strategic Schools

Metaphorical Cognition and Teaching of English

On the Systematic Features of Metaphorical Word Coinage in Chinese

A Research into Metaphorical Mechanism of Euphemism

Metaphorical Expressions and the Principle of Economy

The Effect of Substructure and Superstructure on Metaphorical Meaning

A Cultural Analysis on Metaphorical Allusions

Reanalysizing the Metaphorical Features from the Aspect of Internet Language

Metaphorical Awareness and the Teaching of English Idioms

Tea-partiers dump another victim in the metaphorical harbour

The Cultural Trace in the Metaphorical Thinking Process

The Metaphorical Function in Weekly Magazine

A Critical Research on Metaphorical Mappings

On the Metaphorical Thinking and English Teaching

Models and Metaphors in Science: The Metaphorical Turn

A Metaphorical Explanation of English Plant Terms

Metaphorical and Cognitive Study on Past Tense of English Verbs

On Metaphorical Universal in Poetry and the Translation of Poetry

The Metaphorical System of Chinese Feeling Categories

Metaphorical Symbol in William Faulkner's Novels

On the metaphorical quality of poetic languages

The Metaphorical Meaning of Circle Imagery in the Love Poems by Donne

The Metaphorical Meaning of English Plant Words

Chan and Metaphorical Drawings by Literati

Query on Noun as Metaphorical Adverbial

Analysis of Metaphorical Use of Language at the Pragmatic Level

On the Metaphorical Theme of "Fathers and Sons" in Saul Bllow's Novels

Metaphorical distance in Li Shangyin's Poetry

A Probe of the Metaphorical Use of the Present Tense of English Verbs

Metaphorical recognition to the past tense of the English verb

On one hand, we will combine the metaphor with the poetical theme of being to analyse metaphorical implication in the text;

The Figurative System of Morality and the Metaphorical Use of the Chinese and English Language

A Contrastive Study of Metaphorical Words in English and Chinese

Decoding the Marriage Customs Encoded in English Metaphorical Vocabulary

Metaphorical Rhetoric in English- Chinese Translating

A Review on the Ten-year Metaphorical Studies in China

Analyze the Metaphorical Projection of Words' Meaning in English from Cognition

Metaphorical Significance in English and Chinese Idioms with Animal Terms

Metaphorical Similarities of Verbs of Smell in English and Chinese

On Metaphorical Mapping in English and Chinese

Analysis of the Metaphorical Phenomenon in English Vocabulary for Science and Technology