The aim of our work is to analyze 500 samples from the Spanish and Czech corpora. When analyzing the samples, we will focus on the occurrence of anthropomorphic metaphors. Due to the large amount we generated, we specified our search for a lexical unit head and la cabeza. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part includes the approximation of the terms of metaphors and metonymies from the literary and non-literary point of view and the practical part of the analysis and description of the found excerpts. After analyzing all the lexical units in the practical part, there is a chapter containing the comparison of the excerpts in both languages and a summary in the Spanish language.

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Lançando um olhar sociocognitivista sobre um fenômeno geralmente estudado sob outros pontos de vista (textual e interacional), este estudo descreve as funções sociocognitivas das repetições lexicais e sintáticas em um contexto socialmente situado: o discurso político de Fernando Collor datado das eleições de 1989. Tendo em vista os fatores de ordem pragmática que emergem desse contexto, principalmente o propósito comunicativo, combinamos bases teóricas em Processamento do Discurso e Semântica Cognitiva para construir hipóteses que explicassem a saliência das repetições no discurso político de Collor. A análise qualitativa dos dados aponta para o uso da repetição enquanto estratégia lingüístico-discursiva útil na construção argumentativa e na diminuição do custo de processamento do discurso, alinhando-se, portanto, aos propósitos de convencimento e alcance das massas. / Departing from traditional analyses of repetition (textual and interactional), this study analyzes it within the light of Cognitive Linguistics. Its objective is to describe the sociocognitive functions of lexical and syntactic repetitions in a situated context: The political discourse of Fernando Collor de Melo, during the 1989 election campaign in Brazil. Given the pragmatic factors that emerge in such a context, mainly its communicative purpose, the study combines literature in Discourse Processing and in Cognitive Semantics to construe probable hypotheses that can account for the salience of repetitions in the political discourse under examination. Qualitative analysis renders repetition a linguistic-discursive strategy useful for the construction of arguments and for decreasing the cost of discourse processing. Therefore, a very useful strategy to reach, persuade, and convince the masses.

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Lançando um olhar sociocognitivista sobre um fenômeno geralmente estudado sob outros pontos de vista (textual e interacional), este estudo descreve as funções sociocognitivas das repetições lexicais e sintáticas em um contexto socialmente situado: o discurso político de Fernando Collor datado das eleições de 1989. Tendo em vista os fatores de ordem pragmática que emergem desse contexto, principalmente o propósito comunicativo, combinamos bases teóricas em Processamento do Discurso e Semântica Cognitiva para construir hipóteses que explicassem a saliência das repetições no discurso político de Collor. A análise qualitativa dos dados aponta para o uso da repetição enquanto estratégia lingüístico-discursiva útil na construção argumentativa e na diminuição do custo de processamento do discurso, alinhando-se, portanto, aos propósitos de convencimento e alcance das massas. / Departing from traditional analyses of repetition (textual and interactional), this study analyzes it within the light of Cognitive Linguistics. Its objective is to describe the sociocognitive functions of lexical and syntactic repetitions in a situated context: The political discourse of Fernando Collor de Melo, during the 1989 election campaign in Brazil. Given the pragmatic factors that emerge in such a context, mainly its communicative purpose, the study combines literature in Discourse Processing and in Cognitive Semantics to construe probable hypotheses that can account for the salience of repetitions in the political discourse under examination. Qualitative analysis renders repetition a linguistic-discursive strategy useful for the construction of arguments and for decreasing the cost of discourse processing. Therefore, a very useful strategy to reach, persuade, and convince the masses.

Abstract Imagery can be one of the difficulties a translator faces. It can be difficult to transfer the same image in a metaphor, simile, metaphorical adjective or a cultural reference to the target text. The aim of this study is to look at what translation strategies can be used for the translation of said imagery. The method is a quantitative analysis of the source text’s imagery types and a qualitative analysis of the translation strategies used. Since the language pair come from the same language family and have a lot of similarities in terms of culture, literal translations, equivalences and, in some cases, adaptions were suspected to be more frequent. The results show that for metaphors, similes and metaphorical adjectives literal translations were the most frequent ones, followed by equivalents carrying the same connotations, for metaphors and adjectives. Adaption, which is perhaps not really translation at all, was frequently used for the cultural references due to the target oriented approach. Omission and neutral explanations were used where the loss of information did not affect the presumed understanding of the target text reader. Transference, transposition and calque were used to some extent but not as frequent as suspected. In conclusion, when two languages are as similar as Swedish and English, a translator can go far by using literal translation or, where applicable, equivalents.

The purpose of this essay is to identify functional shifts and semantic changes in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Lord of the Rings Online. The focus is on new uses of established terms in Standard English and the intent is to see how the word formation processes work in an online gaming environment, and identify the possible reasons behind them. Due to the lack of previous studies of language in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, the aim is to provide some insight into some of the language developments that occur in such an environment. A quantitative method has been utilised in order to distinguish patterns, and the material, in the form of chat logs, has been gathered from Lord of the Rings Online. The chat logs have then been used to create a corpus, and, from this point, a qualitative method has been employed. The corpus has been thoroughly analysed for the words which have undergone functional shifts and/or semantic changes, and a selection of these words are presented and discussed based on word formation process. The findings in this study seem to confirm that language changes in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game follow the same patterns as in other environments.

Hannah Arendt est très célèbre comme historienne d’idées (Les origines du totalitarisme), largement connue comme théoricienne politique (ses essais) et considérée comme philosophe (Condition de l’homme moderne, La vie de l’esprit). Ces dernières années, les spécialistes allemands d’Arendt ont mis également en relief son intérêt pour la littérature. Cette thèse met pour la première fois en évidence de manière systématique les divers aspects concrets du rapport d’Arendt à la poésie : tant ses textes sur la poésie et la littérature de différents auteurs, que ses textes théoriques sur la poésie et finalement ses propres poèmes. / Hannah Arendt is very famous as historian of ideas (Origins of totalitarism) and reknowned as political theorist (her essays) and as philosopher (The human condition, The life of the mind). The last years german scholars working on Arendt have brought out interest on Arendt and literature. For the first time this thesis stresses systematically different aspects on Arendt’s relation to poetry : her texts on poetry and literature of different authors as well as her theoretical texts on poetry and finally her own poetical texts.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-25T10:09:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 suelyribeirobarra.pdf: 2001060 bytes, checksum: 59c074b121f0c32254269f7f3e9f006d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-25T18:57:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 suelyribeirobarra.pdf: 2001060 bytes, checksum: 59c074b121f0c32254269f7f3e9f006d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-25T18:57:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 suelyribeirobarra.pdf: 2001060 bytes, checksum: 59c074b121f0c32254269f7f3e9f006d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-18 / O presente estudo procura descrever a trajetória teológica de John H. Hick, filósofo e teólogo inglês que se notabilizou por defender, ao que se refere ao diálogo inter-religioso, uma posição pluralista de acolhimento igualitário a todas as religiões. Escritor prolixo publicou inúmeros livros e artigos defendendo a sua hipótese pluralista em confronto com posições tradicionais do Cristianismo. Neste trabalho seus principais textos são apresentados e discutidos comparando-os com as demais posições nas diversas tradições religiosas com respeito à soteriologia humana tendo em vista o entendimento entre elas. / The present research try to describes the theological trajectory of John H. Hick, English philosopher and theologian who become well-know distinguished himself by defending, a pluralistic position regarding an equal treatment for all religions in religious dialogue. Wordy writer has published numerous books and articles advocating its pluralistic hypothesis in comparison with traditional positions of Christianity. In this work its main texts are presented and discussed by comparing them to other positions in the various religious traditions with respect to human soteriology in view of the understanding between them.

Dans le domaine biomédical, comme dans d’autres, la phraséologie et la terminologie sont des éléments indispensables à une communication optimale. Cependant, dans un domaine qui est caractérisé par la précision et l’objectivité, on observe une apparente contradiction : l’utilisation habituelle de la métaphore. Il ne s’agit pas, cependant, de la figure de rhétorique sous laquelle la métaphore est généralement envisagée. Il s’agit ici de la métaphore concep-tuelle, qui permet d’exprimer les modes de conceptualisation propres au domaine, tout par-ticulièrement grâce à la phraséologie. La métaphorisation conceptuelle étant liée étroite-ment aux langues-cultures, on peut se poser la question de savoir si des ouvrages traduits et des ouvrages rédigés directement dans une langue expriment des modes de conceptualisa-tion métaphorique distincts ou non. Notre étude se penche sur les modes de conceptualisation métaphorique (MCM) exprimés en espagnol dans le domaine de l’anatomie topographique. Elle s’inscrit dans un axe de re-cherche en traductologie qui s’intéresse aux modes de conceptualisation métaphorique dans le domaine biomédical. L’anatomie est un terrain d’exploration de la métaphore concep-tuelle particulièrement riche. Nous avons repéré et caractérisé les indices de conceptualisa-tion métaphorique (ICM) dans des textes extraits d’ ouvrages de référence ou d’enseignement en anatomie topographique, en nous concentrant sur les structures vascu-laires (artères et veines), les nerfs et certains muscles, avec pour objectif de comparer deux sous-corpus : l’un est composé de textes rédigés directement en espagnol et l’autre, de textes traduits dans cette langue. Nous avons caractérisé les MCM véhiculées par ces ICM et nous avons comparé les résultats obtenus dans les deux sous-corpus. Tout en tenant compte des limites de notre étude, nous montrons que le corpus rédigé en espagnol présente une plus grande variabilité de l’expression des métaphores conceptuelles que le corpus traduit. Nous espérons ainsi contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des processus de la rédaction et de la traduction spécialisées. / In biomedicine, as in other fields, phraseology and terminology are essential elements for optimal communication. Yet, in a field where precision and objectivity are highly important, there is an apparent contradiction: the usual use of metaphor. However, we are not dealing here with the rhetorical device under which metaphor is usually envisioned. What we are dealing with is the conceptual metaphor, which makes it possible to express the modes of conceptualization specific to the field, particularly through phraseology. Since conceptual metaphorisation is closely related to languages-cultures, the question arises whether trans-lated works and works written directly in a language express different modes of metaphori-cal conceptualisation or not. Our study examines the modes of metaphorical conceptualization (MMC) expressed in Span-ish in the field of topographical anatomy. It is part of a larger translation study research pro-gram, which focuses on MMCs in the biomedical field. Anatomy is a particularly rich area for the exploration of conceptual metaphor. We have identified and characterized metaphorical conceptualization indices (MCI) in in texts selected from reference books or teaching manu-als in the field of topographic anatomy, focusing on vascular structures (arteries and veins), nerves and some muscles, with the aim of comparing two sub-corpuses : one is composed of texts written directly in Spanish and the other, of texts translated into this language. We characterized the MCMs conveyed by these MCIs and compared the results obtained in the two sub-corpuses. Taking into account the limitations of our study, we show that the corpus written in Spanish presents a greater variability in the expression of conceptual metaphors than the translated corpus. We thus hope to contribute to a better understanding of the pro-cesses of specialized writing and translation.

My thesis aims to anatomize the cognitive theory of metaphor and suggests a Peircean semiotic perspective on metaphor study. As metaphorical essentialists, Lakoff/Johnson tend to universalize a limited number of conceptual metaphors and, by doing this, they overlook the dynamic relation between metaphorical tenor and vehicle. Such notion of metaphor is not compatible with the polysemous nature of the sign. The diversity and multivalency of metaphorical vehicle, in particular, cast serious doubts on the hypothesis of “conceptual metaphors” which, being meta-metaphorical constructs, can tell us nothing but a dry and empty formula “A is B”. Consequently, Lakoff/Johnson’s notion of conceptual metaphor is very much a Chomskyan postulation. Also problematic is the expedient experientialism or embodied philosophy they have put forward as a middle course between objectivism and subjectivism. What is missing from their framework is a structural space for dynamic interpretation on the part of metaphor users. In contrast, cognitive linguists may find in Peirce’s theory of the sign a sound solution to their theoretical impasse. As a logician, Peirce sees metaphor as the realization of iconic reasoning at the language level. His exposition on iconicity and iconic reasoning has laid a solid foundation upon which may be erected a fresh epistemology of metaphor fit for the contemporary study of language and mind. Broadly speaking, metaphor in Peirce can be examined from roughly two perspectives. Macroscopically, metaphor is an icon in general as opposed to index and symbol, whereas, microscopically, it is a subdivided hypoicon on the third level as opposed to image and diagram. Besides, Peirce also emphasized the subjective nature of metaphor. Semioticians after Peirce have further developed his theory on metaphor. For example, through his concept of “arbitrary iconicity”, Ersu Ding stresses the arbitrary nature of metaphorization and tries to shift our attention away from Lakoff/Johnson’s abstract epistemological Gestalt to the specific cultural contexts in which metaphors occur. Umberto Eco, on the other hand, sees interpretation of signs as an open-ended process that involves knowledge of all kinds. Encyclopedic knowledge thus serves as unlimited source for metaphorical association. For Eco, the meaning of a metaphor should be interpreted in the cultural framework based on a specific cultural community. Both Ding’s and Eco’s ideas are in line with Peirce’s theoretical framework where the meaning of a metaphor depends on an interpreter in a particular socio-historical context. They all realize that we should go beyond the ontology of metaphorical expressions to acquire a dynamic perspective on metaphor interpretation. To overcome the need for presupposing an omnipotent subject capable of knowing the metaphor-in-itself, we turn to Habermas’s theory of communicative action in which the meaning of metaphor is intersubjectively established through negotiation and communication. Moreover, we should not overlook the dynamic tension between metaphor and ideology. Aphoristically, we can say that nothing is a metaphor unless it is interpreted as a metaphor, and we need to reconnect metaphors with the specific cultural and ideological contexts in which they appear.

Die vorliegende Arbeit hat ihre entstehungsgeschichtlichen Wurzeln in der öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Diskussion über die Risiken und Potentiale der Computernutzung. Hinzu kam neben der persönlichen Aufmerksamkeit für die metaphorische Zusammensetzung von Sprache auch die besondere Stellung dieser im Bezug auf die Computernutzung. Aus verschiedenen Perspektiven wurden diese Phänomene näher betrachtet. Dabei stehen neben der öffentlichen Diskussion und der fachlichen Auseinandersetzung nach einem forschungsmethodischen Einschub schließlich die männlichen Nutzer zwischen dem 20. und 30. Lebensjahr und ihre metaphorischen Konzepte von Computernutzung im Fokus der Auseinandersetzung. Den theoretischen Hintergrund bilden gestalttheoretische Betrachtungen, Studien über Lebenswelt und Alltag und symbolisch-interaktionistische Auffassungen. Ergänzend wurden theoretische Ausführungen zur Indentitäts- und Rollenentwicklung in Verbindung mit Aspekten geschlechtertypischen Verhaltens herangezogen. Das Vorgehen bei der Erhebung des Inteviewmaterials stützt sich auf die Empfehlungen von Witzel und Schorn zum problem- bzw. themenzentrierten Interview. Nach der Transkription wurden die Gespräche metaphernanalytisch ausgewertet. Die Methode basiert auf dem von Lakoff und Johnson geprägten Metaphernbegriff. In Bezug auf den theoretischen Hintergrund konnten Anknüpfungspunkte bzw. Überschneidungen skizziert werden, die eine Kombination sinnvoll erscheinen lassen. In der Interpretation der dargestellten metaphorischen Konzepte konnte gezeigt werden, dass dem Computer weit mehr Bedeutungen zugeschrieben werden als nur die einer mikroelektronischen Maschine, wenngleich deren Eigenschaften als Auslöser für diese Zuschreibungen zu betrachten sind.