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Representations of Femininity in Seventeenth Century Conduct Manuals for Gentlemen

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Biscetti S.

Gender Studies

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2012

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vol. 11

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issue 1

160-171

EN

This paper investigates conceptual representations of women in 17th century conduct manuals for gentlemen published in England before and after the Civil War. The aim is to see whether the socio-cultural transformations produced by the Revolution are reflected in the metaphorical expressions referring to the female sex in a highly conservative textual genre

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Teacher-student Relationships: The Meaning of Teachers' Experience Working with Underachieving Students

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Oreshkina M., Greenberg K.

Journal of Pedagogy

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2010

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vol. 1

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issue 2

52-66

EN

This paper is based on phenomenological interviews with teachers who worked with underachieving students in South Africa, Russia, and the United States. It focuses on the analysis of meanings that teachers constructed while describing their relationship with underachieving students and how metaphors worked to construct such meanings. The researchers also used Buber's "I-Thou" concept as an interpretive lens to further understand the meanings of teacher-student relationships. The study concludes that the teacher-student relationship is one of the fundamental themes of the teaching experience and is common for teachers from different countries.

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EFL learners' metaphors and images about foreign language learning

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Farjami H.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

93-109

EN

In this paper, I will argue that awareness of images and metaphors held by foreign language learners about the nature of the target language and its learning can be of substantial value and provide teaching practitioners with useful insights about how to deal with various language learning problems. To elicit images which learners hold about foreign language learning, a questionnaire was given to 350 learners of English in different places in Iran. The questionnaire asked the respondents to provide images about learning a foreign language by using a sentence completion task: “Learning a foreign language is like . . .” The responses gained in 200 questionnaires were content-analyzed and the identified images and metaphors were summarized under more broad-ranging categories. The information that the metaphors and the resulting metaphorical categories provide and the theoretical interpretations which can plausibly be made are discussed in some detail and put in a cognitive-psychological perspective.

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Designing the welfare state: Selected building metaphors of the welfare state across the British press

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Paprota M.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2017

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vol. 41

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issue 2

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

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This paper, drawing on insights from discourse-historical approach to discourse analysis and applying Conceptual Metaphor theory, examines selected BUILDING metaphors of the welfare state in a corpus of four British newspapers. The paper compares the use of these metaphors in the four newspapers and considers their argumentative function, finding that while the metaphors largely overlap between the newspapers, their argumentative functions are more though not completely distinct, legitimising government reforms of the welfare state in the conservative newspapers, with the left-leaning newspapers using them to support and oppose these reforms.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

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EFL learners’ metaphors and images about foreign language learning

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Farjami H.

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

93-109

EN

In this paper, I will argue that awareness of images and metaphors held by foreign language learners about the nature of the target language and its learning can be of substantial value and provide teaching practitioners with useful insights about how to deal with various language learning problems. To elicit images which learners hold about foreign language learning, a questionnaire was given to 350 learners of English in different places in Iran. The questionnaire asked the respondents to provide images about learning a foreign language by using a sentence completion task: “Learning a foreign language is like . . .” The responses gained in 200 questionnaires were content-analyzed and the identified images and metaphors were summarized under more broad-ranging categories. The information that the metaphors and the resulting metaphorical categories provide and the theoretical interpretations which can plausibly be made are discussed in some detail and put in a cognitive-psychological perspective.

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Representations of Femininity in Seventeenth Century Conduct Manuals for Gentlemen

Teacher-student Relationships: The Meaning of Teachers' Experience Working with Underachieving Students

EFL learners' metaphors and images about foreign language learning

Designing the welfare state: Selected building metaphors of the welfare state across the British press

EFL learners’ metaphors and images about foreign language learning