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• Metaphorisches Konzept (textlinguistisch)
  *[[Lakoff, George]]. 1993. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. In ''Metaphor and Thought.'' Ortony, Andrew (ed., 2nd edition), 202-251. Cambridge: Camb
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• Genealogical classification
  The term ''genealogical classification'' is an extension of the metaphor of a language [[family]], like other terms such as [[ancestor]] language, [
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• Supine
  ...ds, lying on one's back, indifferent'. According to Benveniste (1948), the metaphor is the following: "Le supin verbal est indifférent à la voix, au temps et
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• Borrowing (i.e. copying)
  ...e the borrowed element, borrowing is really a kind of [[copying]], and the metaphor "borrowing" is hardly appropriate. However, it is very deeply entrenched in ::*''"The metaphor implied is certainly absurd, since the borrowing takes place without the le
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• Raising to object
  ...ng]]. Soames & Perlmutter suggest that 'Raising to object' is merely a metaphor, and that in fact, the embedded clause in (iii) contains a pro-drop ( [[pro
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• Case
  ...lation from Greek ''ptóòsis'' ‘falling’. According to Blake (2001:18), the metaphor "seems to have been of falling away from an assumed standard form". Fillmor
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• Base (in Cognitive Grammar)
  ...nized in Cognitive Grammar as a pseudo-issue engendered by the [[container metaphor]], our thinking of lexical structures as “containers” for meaning, coup
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• Irony
  ...3. Metaphor and Irony: two Levels of Understanding. In: A. Ortony (ed.), ''Metaphor and Thought'', 425-443. 2nd ed. Cambridge: UP.
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• Boris Isaakovič Jarcho
  ...ccurrence of [[figures of speech|figures of speech]], [[alliteration]]s, [[metaphor]]s, [[metonymy|metonymies]]), a quantitative text typology, including a qua
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