Herta Müller represents physical suffering and repression in her works, often reflecting on the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and her constant interest in language and reflexivity towards writing have led her to develop sophisticated metaphors that she uses to illuminate language and its functioning under such subjugation. With reference to her fiction and non-fiction, I demonstrate how she uses concrete ideas to understand linguistic phenomena. She evokes injury, destruction, force, life, space, touch, silence, and other bodily experiences to make sense of language in the condition of suffering from social oppression. Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory within the framework of cognitive literary studies, I argue that Müller both relies on and estranges the ways in which people speak and think about language. Language is imagined differently depending on the circumstances and in close relationship with various sensory experiences. The complexity of the relationship between language and thought problematises the process of metaphor building and makes it difficult to identify its key aspects across different contexts and sensory modalities. Müller’s tropes are easy to experience, but difficult to analyse. The idea of language does not exist as a stable concept and is regularly reimagined in her texts; but its meaning is not arbitrary and depends on bodily experience. While Müller evokes such experience to understand language in the condition of suffering, she can also use linguistic concepts to elucidate more abstract ideas. Language can be regarded as an abstract or concrete phenomenon depending on the relevant bodily, linguistic, and cultural contexts. This project contributes to the study of Müller’s poetics as well as to the literary critical interpretation of embodied cognition, and develops the use of conceptual metaphor theory for literary analysis. It also seeks to develop understanding of the role of bodily experience in the metaphorical conceptualisation of language.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hermide Menquini Braga.pdf: 1784730 bytes, checksum: ced5b2e90933059460f0dc80166b2c92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-07 / The thesis focuses on the main work of João Guimarães Rosa, Grande wilderness: paths, through the prism of evil, which is expressed in metaphors and symbols epiphora. The first part presents the theoretical foundations of analysis: the metaphors and epiphora captured in the rich source of the Metaphor Viva Ricouer Paul, and the symbols of evil, which is also rooted in works by the same author. The second part delves into the analysis of the text by the light of Rose's theoretical first . Displays the scene of evil in the great wilderness, which permeates the characters of myths and symbols, which emerges the figure of Riobaldo, seeking to overcome by wisdom The final analysis of the work proceeds by metaphors that express the evil experienced by the characters and show path to transcendence symbolized and personified in the great journey that rises up from the main narrator. The study brings out a major unknown João Guimarães Rosa, his face epiphora, and a new approach to evil, through the philosophy of religious language. The paths of the myths, symbols and metaphors, it was possible to penetrate deep in the maze of evil, hidden in this masterpiece of Brazilian literature, and find paths to transcendence, overcoming the demon of tragedy, violence and death / A tese focaliza a obra principal de João Guimarães Rosa, Grande sertão: veredas, pelo prisma do mal, que se expressa em metáforas-epíforas e símbolos. Na primeira parte, expõe os fundamentos teóricos das analises: as metáforas e epíforas captadas na rica fonte de A Metáfora Viva de Paul Ricouer, e os símbolos do mal, que também se respaldam em obras do mesmo autor. Na segunda parte, mergulha na análise do texto de Rosa pela luz teórica da primeira. Apresenta o cenário do mal no grande sertão, que impregna os personagens de mitos e símbolos, onde emerge a figura de Riobaldo, em busca de superação pela sabedoria. A análise final da obra procede pelas metáforas que expressam o mal vivido pelos personagens e apontam caminho rumo à transcendência simbolizado e personalizado na grande travessia que desponta das falas do narrador principal. O estudo faz emergir um vulto desconhecido de João Guimarães Rosa, a sua face epifórica, e uma nova abordagem do mal, pela via da filosofia da linguagem religiosa. Pelas sendas dos mitos, dos símbolos e das metáforas, foi possível penetrar nos meandros profundos do mal, escondidos nessa obra prima da literatura brasileira, e descobrir veredas de transcendência, superando o demoníaco da tragédia, da violência e da morte

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o uso das metáforas como figuras retóricas e analisar o uso das metáforas conceituais nos editoriais selecionados dos jornais: O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, Gazeta do povo, O Globo e Gaúcha Zero Hora. Essa análise parte da fundamentação teórica tem como base as metáforas como figuras retóricas de acordo com os preceitos elaborados por Perelman & Tyteca (2005 [1958]) em seu Tratado da argumentação - A nova retórica e as metáforas conceituais de acordo com os preceitos elaborados por Lakoff & Johnson (2002 [1980]) em Metáforas da vida cotidiana. Procura-se, nesse sentido, observar como o orador/editorialista faz a aplicação metafórica em seus textos, a fim de entender sua finalidade argumentativa para com o auditório/leitor. A análise do texto compreende a identificação das diferentes metáforas como figuras retóricas e como metáforas conceituais ambas estão examinadas em nossa pesquisa teórica. Demonstrar a operacionalização das teorias de Perelman & Tyteca e Lakoff & Johnson nos permite apontar como é possível criar condições técnicas-científicas para unir essas duas teorias em uma pesquisa das diferentes metáforas nas diversas construções linguísticas dos editoriais de jornais on-line. / The aim of the study is to analyze the use of metaphors as figures of language and to analyze the use of conceptual metaphors in selected newspaper editorials: O Estado de S.Paulo, Folha de S.Paulo, Gazeta do Povo, O Globo and Gaúcha Zero Hora. This analyzis is based in metaphors as rhetorical figures in accordance to Perelman & Tyteca (1958) in their The new Rhetoric A treatise on Argumentation, and the conceptual metaphors in accordance to Lakoff & Johnson (1980) in Metaphors We Live By. In this regard, we want to observe how the orator/editorialist makes the metaphorical application in their texts, in order to understand their argumentative purpose towards the audience/reader. The revision of the text includes the identification of the different metaphors as rhetorical figures and as conceptual metaphors based on our theoretical research. Therefore, we intend to demonstrate how it is possible to create technical-scientific conditions to unite these two theories (Perelman & Tyteca and Lakoff & Johnson in a research of the different metaphors in the diverse constructions linguistic of the editorials of online newspapers.

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In this essay I describe the development of my prose work entitled Jorden är platt (Earth is flat). In the text we encounter a woman whose 40-year-old brother is diagnosed with lung cancer. The brother has been living a hectic life of drug addiction. The relationship between brother and sister is characterized by ironic distance, but also a lot of love. My aim is to write a funny yet dramatic and serious novel about illness and foreboding death.I have studied how depictions of disease have evolved from the 1950s onward, and how the need for personal disease narratives, often containing elements of metaphysical thought and metaphors of illness, is steadily increasing in our modern biomedical world, where disease and death have become institutionalized.

This dissertation discusses a case study of the pedagogical uses of social media as part of a larger ecological framework for language learning and critical discourse studies that was conducted during the spring 2014 semester of intermediate Italian. It was organized to balance postmodern theories with metaphors drawn from quantum physics. Every aspect of the course, and each interaction outside of class (including multimodal online resources), avoided the cause-and-effect approach often found in task-based and computer assisted language learning. Second language learners adapted to the paradoxical engagement of language and identity as simultaneous process and product, while reducing neither to fiction. The study broadly adapted a socio-cognitive-ecological approach (Larsen-Freeman, 2012) to shift the focus from differences in technology or method to the participants' perception of human possibilities through the affordances of technology. Participants were trained to navigate dynamic levels of ambiguity and possibilities of meaning while facing the static requirement by the academic institution to pass quizzes and exams, and complete homework assignments on the basis of a 'correct' answer. Recent studies in quantum physics and consciousness provided an elegant model that allows for the coexistence of seeming opposites. Agency, which was central to the participants' experience of discovery and play with variants within the elusive 'standard', allowed for conformity to, or deviation from, the collective. Data collection and analysis adapted 'system analysis' so that interpretation was within a more contextualized understanding of the emergence of complex systems resulting from self-organization, self-selection and co-evolutionary symbiosis. Adaptive teaching was used to meet the needs of the participants by beginning with outcomes and then working backward to explore why certain approaches, tools and tasks were, or were not, effective. The insights gleaned from the study demonstrate that higher levels of critical L2 discursive analysis enhanced by human-machine interactions do not require relegation to upper level division SLA courses. The participants' self-selected samples of their work reveal a story that is complex, dynamic and very human, told through the voices of those most often ignored in the processes of language planning, assessment and curriculum development.

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The MA paper analyzes the conceptual metaphors which were used in pre- and post-elective speeches of presidents Bill Clinton and Valdas Adamkus and how the choice of metaphorical expressions influenced the voters' choice. / Darbas analizuoja konceptualias metaforas Bilo Klintono ir Valdo Adamkaus prieš ir po rinkiminėse politinėse kalbose ir kaip metaforų naudojimas įtakojo rinkėjų pasirinkimą.

This paper proposes the notion that words mirror ideas, perspectives and worldviews. Etymologies and meanings of general words for ‘islands’ in a number of languagesin North and West Europe are then discussed. Here, islands are shown to be etymologicallyconstituted by the interplay between land and water, and which of these two is emphasizedvaries. In the third section, a number of Swedish island words are surveyed, in an attemptto illuminate the principle of linguistic relativity. Finally, the implications of these findingsfor island studies are discussed.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Political Science, 2006. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-122).