Illness as metaphor in news articles: an application of metaphor detection by Mishra, Spriha Bankata

“…One common form of expression these stigmatising beliefs take is through metaphor. Metaphors involve mapping an abstract domain to another, often more concrete one. …”
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Cultural metaphors in Singlish by Lai, Yun-Sxin

“…Cultural metaphors are “culturally constructed” conceptual metaphors (Sharifian, 2014b, p. 482) born from experiences unique to each culture. …”
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The child metaphor in "that hideous strength". by Lim, Beatrice Mei Chwee.

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Computational models for metaphor understanding by Chua, Zi Heng

“…A metaphor is a figure of speech used to make the language more vivid and expressive. …”
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Embodied metaphors and creative "acts" by Kim, Suntae, Polman, Evan, Qiu, Lin, Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey, Ong, Lay See, Goncalo, Jack A., Leung, Angela K.-y.

“…These metaphors suggest a connection between concrete bodily experiences and creative cognition. …”
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Objects & metaphors of an unidentified city–state by Ng, Cher Hiang

“…Objects & Metaphors of an Unidentified City–State is a conceptual publication that documents and analyzes a series of visual metaphors and archival photographs of found objects originating from a citizen of an unidentified city–state. …”
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Metaphors and length of headlines : Their effect on print advertisements. by Tan, Dorothy Suan Sim., Lim, Keok Peng., Lye, Sook Yee.

“…Seven hypotheses were generated to test the impact of length and/or the use of metaphors on the dependent variables.…”
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Examining the “customer” metaphor in hospitals : a case study of Singapore by Eng, Casie Pei Shi, Eng, Charissa Siok Yee, Chai, Justin Min How, Lam, Guat Jane

“…Or have they embraced the customer metaphor, and improved in their treatment of their users? …”
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Transformations of an interior space from direct representations to metaphorical constructions. by Koh, Wei Lian.

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A reading of the literal, metaphorical and third spaces in The White Tiger. by Giam, Regina Liling.

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Nga ahuantanga tauira : the comprehension of metaphors by younger Māori speakers by Ong, Pearl Shi Ting

“…This study investigates the changes of the Māori metaphors, a linguistic feature that is also known to reflect culture. …”
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Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics by Chan, Alan Kam Leung

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MetaPro: a computational metaphor processing model for text pre-processing by Mao, Rui, Li, Xiao, Ge, Mengshi, Cambria, Erik

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Addiction : disease or gluttony? Examining the influence of metaphorical framing effect on reader reasoning by Tan, Zhi Xin

“…This study built on the foundations laid by previous research on the effects of metaphorical framing in reasoning by investigating a social problem that has not been studied much in this context: addiction. …”
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A handle bar metaphor for virtual object manipulation with mid-air interaction by Song, Peng, Goh, Wooi Boon, Liu, Xiaopei, Hutama, William, Fu, Chi-Wing

“…However, since it can only sense hand position but not hand orientation robustly, current mid-air interaction methods for 3D virtual object manipulation often require contextual and mode switching to perform translation, rotation, and scaling, thus preventing natural continuous gestural interactions. A novel handle bar metaphor is proposed as an effective visual control metaphor between the user's hand gestures and the corresponding virtual object manipulation operations. …”
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A survey on computational metaphor processing techniques: from identification, interpretation, generation to application by Ge, Mengshi, Mao, Rui, Cambria, Erik

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Wiping away who I was : the mediating role of self-dissociation in the metaphorical cleansing effect by Teo, Fong Chin

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A comparative study on metaphor translation in Camel Xiangzi by human translation and machine translation by Gou, Si

“…Metaphor translation is always a challenge, as translators have to consider and interpret the meaning behind metaphors. …”
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Design and development of an e-learning software to exemplify the application of pedagogical principles and metaphors in user interface design by Ng, Wei Lieh.

“…An e-learning software based on sound pedagogical and user interface design principles is developed, by taking into account instructional design theories and exploiting metaphor based user interfaces. A case study is used to exemplify the requirements for an effective e-learning application.…”
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The beauty of a woman : a comparative study on metaphorical expressions in English & Chinese poems by male poets by Loke, Sue-Ann Jia Xin

“…This study presents a comparative analysis on metaphorical expressions of female beauty used by male poets in English and Chinese. …”
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