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    La Civilisation Ma Mere

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    abandoning his studies‚ he traveled throughout Europe and Israel. Chraïbi settled in France with his first wife and children‚ and eventually devoted himself in 1952 to literature and journalism. In 1954 Chraïbi began writing for the National Radio and Television Broadcasting System. In 1978 he married Sheena McCalliion. From his first marriage he had five children. Chaïbi taught in Canada for a year after his second divorce but returned then to France. Chraïbi’s works have been translated into English‚

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    Engineering and Metaphor

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    What is a Metaphor ? A Metaphor is an “expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept‚ where there is some similarity or correlation between the two” according to the LinguaLinks Library. Metaphors are used by anyone trying to convey an idea in an indirect manner. We use them daily without realizing it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday and

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    Family and Metaphor

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    parents. Interview them‚ using the questions and elements you have chosen. For your writing‚ you will need a metaphor. The metaphor in our book was the loom- the author used it to weave together all the elements of her mother’s life into a single fabric. You could use a car‚ a cake‚ a computer- anything which has components. The components come together to create one thing. Choose a metaphor which has meaning to you- your writing will be much more powerful this way. Finally‚ put your chosen cultural

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    Dissociation: Mere Bozza

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    IMPROVISATION ET CAPRICE September 13‚ 2011 By Eugène Bozza Saxophone Studio Presentation Presented by Robby Avila “The good man is the only excellent musician‚ because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.” - Plato Eugène Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991) Eugène Bozza was a 20th century French musician and talented composer who wrote many important works for not only the saxophone‚ but for nearly every wind instrument

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    Metaphors in Poetry

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    The use of metaphor in poetry is one of the most important aspects of poetic style that must be mastered. Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. For example‚ a fierce person can be referred to as a tiger. Another example of a metaphor would be the description of a person who was uncommunicative as being as "silent as stone". The word stone is an image that is used to explain the intense silence of the person. In this way

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    Emotion and Metaphor

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    We all use metaphors in our everyday lives. We use them to make a point‚ to make the language more alive or simply because some metaphors have become the correct word to describe something (also known as a dead metaphor. In the book “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” I.A. Richards describes the metaphor as consisting of two parts; the tenor (the subject) and the vehicle (the metaphor). When we say that somebody has “a heart of gold”‚ no one thinks that this is actually the case. But the phrase gives a

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    Conceptual Metaphor

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    Literature Review on Metaphors From the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics The definition of metaphor   Traditionally‚ metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by saying that one is the other‚ as in “He is a tiger”. It is a property of words‚ and is used for some artistic and rhetorical purpose. However‚ this view has been challenged recently by cognitive linguists (Liu & Wen‚ 2012: 249). Cognitive linguists and philosophers have shown that metaphors are not just a

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    Metaphors of Organizations

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    Metaphors of Organizations "All theories of organization and management are based on implicit images or metaphors that persuade us to see‚ understand‚ and imagine situations in partial ways. Metaphors create insight. But they also distort. They have strengths. But they also have limitations. In creating ways of seeing‚ they create ways of not seeing. Hence there can be no single theory or metaphor that gives an all-purpose point of view. There can be no ’correct theory ’ for structuring everything

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    Organization Metaphor

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    norms and values of the living beings. According to Mats Slvesson‚ an appealing metaphor may stand in the way of a less elegant but more accurate and elaborate description. In my opinion‚ the metaphors employed will not always illuminate the researchers’ basic view of the phenomenon. Because of the limitations of current metaphors‚ complex understanding is perhaps more often derived from a synthesis of different metaphors than from a single one. Due to the reasons above‚ this short essay will critically

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    Metaphor and Translation

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    1253–1269 Metaphor and translation: some implications of a cognitive approach ¨ Christina Schaffner* School of Languages and European Studies‚ Aston University‚ Aston Triangle‚ Birmingham B4 7ET‚ UK Received 5 June 2003; received in revised form 12 September 2003; accepted 8 October 2003 Abstract Metaphor has been widely discussed within the discipline of Translation Studies‚ predominantly with respect to translatability and transfer methods. It has been argued that metaphors can become a

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