Tag: Metaphors

Free Download M. Kornprobst, V. Pouliot, N. Shah, "Metaphors of Globalization: Mirrors, Magicians and Mutinies"
English | 2007 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0230522262 | PDF | 1,8 mb
By revisiting globalization using an analysis of metaphors, such as ‘global village’ and ‘network society’, this volume sheds new light on overlooked dimensions of global politics, redresses outdated conceptualizations, and provides a critical analysis of existing approaches to the study of globalization.

Free Download Gillian Lazar, "Meanings and Metaphors: Activities to Practise Figurative Language"
English | 2003 | pages: 145 | ISBN: 0521774365 | PDF | 33,3 mb
A lively collection of vocabulary activities which provide opportunities to use language creatively and to engage in cross-cultural comparisons. Meanings and Metaphors contains a lively collection of vocabulary activities which will open up the world of figurative language to students of intermediate level and above. Each of the 34 photocopiable units has a clear step-by-step lesson plan for the busy teacher which includes a useful background information section for extra support. All the words and expressions included in the book have been checked against the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that they are relevant, up-to-date and useful to the students. This can be used to supplement most course books and is suitable for a wide range of teaching environments.

Free Download S. J. Parrott, "The Conceptualization of Dress in Prophetic Metaphors "
English | ISBN: 9004677445 | 2023 | 276 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Jerusalem/Zion’s metaphoric investiture/divestiture of dress is a central force to create new perspectives on reality and of a nation’s selfhood in contexts of suffering and destruction, making dress in prophetic metaphors a crucial means of communication and perception management.

Free Download David Davage, "Metaphors in the Prophetic Literature of the Hebrew Bible and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 3506793969 | 2023 | 403 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This collection of articles is tightly focused on metaphors in the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible and their later afterlife in Jewish and Christian texts. The essays deal with a wide range of historical, literary, and methodological issues. First, several contributions employ metaphor theory in analysing the biblical texts, both conceptual frameworks such as blending theory and more traditional methods. Second, metaphors are studied both synchronically, that is, in relation to their current literary contexts, and diachronically, that is, mapping how they have been employed and re-interpreted in different ways and different texts throughout time. Third, other contributions read metaphors in light of theoretical frameworks such as feminist criticism, post-colonial theories, or power discourses that uncover aspects of significance often missed in historical studies. Finally, yet other contributions deal with the issue of how to translate metaphors in contemporary contexts.

Free Download Benjamin Angerer, "Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving "
English | ISBN: 1032321369 | 2023 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
This book addresses a longstanding impasse in problem solving research: if structured mental representations of problems are required for solving them, how do those arise and, if needed, change? The book argues that established theories underestimate this question due to methodological requirements.

Free Download Extreme Metaphors By J. G. Ballard
2012 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0007454856 | EPUB | 3 MB
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews. J.G. Ballard was a literary giant. His novels were unique and surprising. To the journalists and admirers who sought him out, Ballard was the ‘seer of Shepperton’; his home the vantage from which he observed the rising suburban tide, part of a changing society captured and second-guessed so plausibly in his fiction. Such acuity was not exclusive to his novels and, as this book reminds us, Ballard’s restive intelligence sharpened itself in dialogue. He entertained many with insights into the world as he saw it, and speculated, often correctly, about its future. Some of these observations earned Ballard an oracular reputation, and continue to yield an uncannily accurate commentary today. Now, for the first time, ‘Extreme Metaphors’ collects the finest interviews of his career. Conversations with cultural figureheads such as Will Self, Jon Savage, Iain Sinclair and John Gray, and collaborators like David Cronenberg, are a reminder of his wit and humanity, testament to Ballard’s profound worldliness as much as his otherworldly imagination. This collection is an indispensable tribute to one of recent history’s most incisive and original thinkers.

Free Download Geneva Cobb Moore, Andrew Billingsley, "Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women’s Literature: From Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1611177480 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 0.8 mb
An in-depth examination of Black women’s experiences as portrayed in literature throughout American history

Free Download Javier Fernández-Sebastián, "Key Metaphors for History "
English | ISBN: 1138354465 | 2024 | 350 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This book casts a fresh look at what to date has been a relatively unexplored question: the enormous value and usefulness of the metaphor in the understanding and writing of history (and at the historical culture reflected by these metaphors). Mapping a wide range of tropes present in historiography and public discourse, the book identifies some of the key metaphorical resources employed by historians, politicians, and journalists to represent time, history, memory, the past, the present, and the future and examines a selection of analytical concepts of a temporal nature, built upon unmistakeably metaphorical foundations, such as modernity, event, process, revolution, crisis, progress, decline, or transition.

Free Download Key Metaphors for History: Mirrors of Time
by Javier Fernández-Sebastián
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1138354465 | 351 Pages | True PDF | 38 MB

Free Download Aisha Khan, "Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad"
English | 2004 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0822333880, 0822333767 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal the tension that exists between identity as a source of equality and identity as an instrument through which social and cultural hierarchies are reinforced. Focusing on the Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, Khan examines this paradox as it is expressed in key dimensions of Hindu and Muslim cultural history and social relationships in southern Trinidad. In vivid detail, she describes how disempowered communities create livable conditions for themselves while participating in a broader culture that both celebrates and denies difference.