Sökning: "metonymic"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade ordet metonymic.

1. 1. Shakespeare's Language : Styles and meanings in King Lear relating to power

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Marianne Vifell Waters; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Early Modern English; Shakespeare; King Lear; social rank; gender; power; possession; Semantic and Pragmatic theories.;

   Sammanfattning : This is a linguistic study that will apply theories as a way of understanding the contexts of aspects of the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, as they relate to the possession, and exercise of power. It focuses on targeting and exploring the language of the play and how it impacts characters’ behaviour to gain or sustain power. LÄS MER

3. 2. Metaphorical mountainscapes : Translating metaphors, similes and metonymy in an adventure travel guide

   Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Elin Maria Björklund; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Translation studies; metaphor; metonymy; simile; conceptual metaphors; translation strategies; personification;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines the translation of an adventure travel guide from English to Swedish, focusing on the translation of conventional metaphors, original metaphors, metonymy and similes, with special attention to conceptual metaphors. The results show that most of the metaphors are reproduced in the target text, along with most of the metonymic segments and all similes. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Dream of Morpheus: A Character Study of Narrative Power in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Astrid Dock; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Neil Gaiman Sandman Narrative Milton Shakespeare Tempest Satan Graphic novel; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : This essay is primarily focused on the ambiguity surrounding Morpheus’ death in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. There is a divide in the character that is not reconciled within the comic: whether or not Morpheus is in control of the events that shape his death. LÄS MER

5. 4. Kick the Bucket or Cash in One's Chips : An analysis of some English slang expressions for dying

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Heidi Orava Anderson; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Metaphor; metonymy; idioms; slang; dying;

   Sammanfattning : This research analyses some of the slang expressions with the meaning ‘to die’ found in Dictionary of Modern Slang with regard to metaphor and metonymy and whether they have been active when creating the identified slang expressions. It further examines the frequency of these expressions in a large language corpus, and identifies the processes involved in the most frequent expressions. LÄS MER

7. 5. To make a mountain out of a molehill : A comparative study of the metonymical and metaphorical structures of three semantically identical, but lexically different, idioms in English, Swedish and German

   Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Anna Lodén; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; mapping; source domain; linguistics;

   Sammanfattning : This study revolves around the different underlying metaphorical or metonymical structures of three specific idioms, one English, one Swedish and one German, but with equivalent semantics. The structure of the source and target domains was analysed, as well as the mapping from source to target. LÄS MER