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Os significados sociais da realização variável da vibrante múltipla alveolar em onset silábico em Porto Alegre (RS) : variação, mudança linguística e estilo
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A representação linguística dos personagens cariocas de classe baixa na dublagem brasileira do filme Rio
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It's all about the interaction: listener responses as a discourse-organisational variable
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Regolamenti nazionali ed europei in italiano a confronto: analisi linguistica qualitativa e quantitativa di un corpus
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IT-Anglizismen in der Standardschriftsprache des Gegenwartsdeutschen
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An experimental approach to recomplementation : evidence from monolingual and bilingual Spanish
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Taiwanese Texans : a sociolinguistic study of language and cultural identity
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Stylistic variation in African American Language: examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community
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Latino, Latina, Latin@, Latine, and Latinx: Gender Inclusive Oral Expression in Spanish
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In: Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (2020)
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English as a global language: language variation and language death
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Escritura, oralidad y variación nuevos datos sobre la alternancia allí/allá a la luz de un corpus epistolar del siglo XVI
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Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors
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Why Would We Rather Peg Out Than Simply Die?—How Do game Metaphors Help Us Deal with Death Across Languages and Cultures?
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This article centres on the life is a game and death is the end of the game metaphors in various (often unrelated) cultures around the world and the linguistic manifestations of the metaphors in various natural languages. First, it explains why and how metaphor and metonymy are used as conceptual and linguistic ‘fig leaves’ to hide or tone down unpleasant or threatening concepts. Metonymy allows us to either zoom in on one aspect of a domain, or zoom out to de-emphasize the unpleasant details. Metaphor, on the other hand, lets us conceptualize death in terms of a completely different concept. One ‘completely different’ concept that is sometimes used in such a way is the concept of game. We argue that game lets us distance ourselves from the most terrifying aspects of death in a number of ways. Firstly, it may occasionally (although not very often) structure the concept of death or the final moments before death. Secondly, game may make death more approachable as an offshoot of a life structuring metaphor (e.g., life is a game or life is a sport, or more broadly life is a form of entertainment). Such cases are quite common, although there are naturally certain cross-linguistic differences in terms of the frequency of usage as well as the selection of specific games/sports as source domains. Finally, sometimes the calming effect achieved by the concept of game may only be explained within the framework of conceptual integration theory. In this article we argue that in examples like to dice with death the effect is achieved because the concept of death (whether or not in the form of the Grim Reaper) is enriched with an additional input space of a player. In this way, the frame of game playing (which is normally perceived a leisurely activity) and the domains of players (who do not treat the outcome of the game very seriously) overlap and tone down the other, rather gloomy input spaces. The metaphoric blend therefore permits us to think and talk about one of the most negatively evaluated human experiences, dying, in terms of one of the most positive experiences, playing a game. The obvious emotional appeal of this blending strategy helps explain its popularity across languages and cultures.
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1203 Language and Linguistics; 3304 Education; 3310 Linguistics and Language; CMT; Cognitive linguistics; Death; Euphemism; Game; Language variation; Life; Metaphor; Taboo
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URL: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:16f2383
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VARIATIONS IN METADISCOURSE USE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW THESIS CHAPTERS
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In: Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, Vol 4, Iss 2, Pp 390-408 (2020) (2020)
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In Search of ISL's Pre-History
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In: Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, Vol 11 (2020) (2020)
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A Corpus-Based Variation in the Processing of Determiners in Nigerian Undergraduates Descriptive Writing
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In: Applied Linguistics Research Journal, Vol 4, Iss 5, Pp 22-38 (2020) (2020)
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Dialectal Variation in European Portuguese Central Vowel Perception
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2020) (2020)
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Cognitive biases on the social perception of the allophonic variation of coda /S/ in Brazilian Portuguese
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2020) (2020)
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Dialectal Variation in European Portuguese Central Vowel Perception
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In: Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2020) (2020)
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