Sentence examples for metaphor presented from inspiring English sources

The studies focusing on grammatical metaphor presented above do indeed indicate that learners, regardless of their native language or languages, must undergo parallel developmental stages within Halliday's (1993) proposed phase (a) of advanced language learning.

In the metaphor presented, a crucial role is played by the attractor concept.

The metaphor presented in this article is derived from dynamical systems theory and is a visual representation of the mathematical concepts underlining this theory.

The ladder as a metaphor presents a metaphor for well-being that is conceptualized around an individual; there is no room, for example, for a family on a ladder.

European islands, amongst other features – mountains, coasts, forests – are imbued with powerful (and often Western) myths and tropes of place: they combine materiality and metaphor, presenting spaces that at once appear open and closed, fixed yet fluid, complete and peripheral, vulnerable yet resilient.

Till-Holger Borchert says that van Eyck did not paint her as "the Madonna in a church", but instead as metaphor, presenting Mary "as the Church".

This feeling is not limited to the few fans of metaphor present.

In the image's refusal to become portraiture, while instead relying on body language, there is a kind of metaphor present.

The instances of lexical metaphors are presented in bold and underlined.

The analysis of fear-metaphor types presented in Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Wilson [ 18] provides additional evidence for the English preference of fight effect EESs in the corpus materials and a more frequent fright scenario in the case of Polish.

These were LEADER-FOLLOWER RELATIONSHIP AS: WAR; HIERARCHY; PARENTALISM; SPORT CONSTRUCTION MACHINE JOURNEYNEY; and TRANSACTION (the convention of cognitive linguistics requires that conceptual metaphors are presented in small capitals: see table 2).