Cognitive precision and expressiveness in stock market communication : a contrastive perspective by Duda, Bozena, Nycz, Krzysztof

“…Another objective is to present precision and expressiveness in stock market communication achieved through the use of figurative (metaphorical and metonymic) means. In particular, we conducted a qualitative analysis of selected metonymic and metaphorical expressions in three different languages (English, German and Polish) extracted from stock market reports and commentaries. …”
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Believability on the axes of structuralism: Yan Martel‘s Life of Pi by Habibi, Seyed Javad, Karbalaei, Sara Soleimani

“…To discuss the way the believability of Pi’s narrative gets solidified, this enquiry takes advantage of the organizing principles of structuralism, namely, the metonymical-syntagmatic and the metaphorical-paradigmatic axes. …”
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A contrastive study on rhetoric in COVID-19-related news headlines from native and non-native English online newspapers by Jitsuda Laongpol

“…However, allusion and simile are only found in the headlines from the Bangkok Post, but at very low frequencies. Furthermore, the metonymic uses in the headlines may reflect certain preferred ideologies of presenting coronavirus-related news between the two counterparts.…”
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