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1. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleWhy we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence ...

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   Jan 1, 2010 · An interesting second observation is that mixedmetaphor incidence is almost identical in both newspapers despite their earlier mentioned divergence in size and metaphor density.

   • Author: Michael Kimmel

   • Publish Year: 2010

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   An interesting second observation is that mixed metaphor incidence is almost identical in both newspapers despite their earlier mentioned divergence in size and metaphor density.

   • Author: Michael Kimmel

3. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleWhy we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence ...

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   Jan 1, 2010 · The paper explores the phenomenon of metaphors that occur in close textual adjacency, i.e. as metaphor clusters, but do not share a similar cognitive basis. Clusters frequently mix ontologies and are thus devoid of coherence that can be explained as emerging from a single conceptual metaphor.

   • Author: Michael Kimmel

   • Publish Year: 2010

4. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleMetaphors and metonymies in New York Times and Times ...

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   Apr 1, 2011 · Although both of the two headlines in (8) contain a metaphor of fog, there is a subtle pragmatic difference between the two metaphors with respect to the evaluation of aspects of the story that the NYT and TS audiences may be interested in. Newspaper headlines are designed to optimize the relevance of new stories for the reader by providing the ...

5. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullWhat Corpus Linguistics Can Tell Us About Metaphor Use In ...

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   Sep 17, 2014 · This paper presents a corpus-linguistic quantitative analysis of metaphors in a set of British newspapers. In order to reveal what is typical of metaphor in newspapers, the dataset is compared to three other categories of discourse, namely academic texts, fiction, and conversation.

   • Author: Tina Krennmayr

   • Publish Year: 2015

6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 272532109Newspaper Metaphors: Reusing Metaphors Across Media Genres

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   Dec 31, 2012 · Both metaphors became very popular in the periods included for this study, as evidenced by their frequent use in newspapers; but their development and rate of diffusion differ drastically.

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   Is mixedmetaphor incidence similar in both newspapers?

   • An interesting second observation is that mixedmetaphor incidence is almost identical in both newspapers despite their earlier mentioned divergence in size and metaphor density.

   Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence

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   Are mixed metaphors imagistic?

   • The metaphors satisfy the two basic conditions for mixed metaphor: (1) they occur in textual adjacency, i.e. within a single metaphor cluster, and (2) they do not (for the most part) share any imagistic ontology or any direct inferential entailments between them. Mixed metaphors like these have traditionally posed a challenge to theorists.

   Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence

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   Are mixed metaphors in newspaper commentaries incoherent?

   • As the examples have demonstrated, mixed metaphors in newspaper commentaries cannot usually be put down to incoherent or out of the ordinary argumentation patterns. This brings a purely metaphor-based analysis of argumentation to certain limits and calls for new theoretical tools.

   Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence

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   Do newspapers use metaphors?

   • Metaphor is part and parcel of everyday language use, including news texts. To date, metaphors in newspapers have been examined mainly for their rhetorical or ideological power. But are metaphors really ubiquitous in news writing? And what is typical of metaphor use in newspapers compared to other kinds of discourse?

   What Corpus Linguistics Can Tell Us About Metaphor Use In Newspaper

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   What is a mixed metaphor cluster?

   • Specifically, concerning the type of metaphor cluster we called ‘mixed’ cognitive linguists face a key challenge. As the examples have demonstrated, mixed metaphors in newspaper commentaries cannot usually be put down to incoherent or out of the ordinary argumentation patterns.

   Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence

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   Are mixed metaphors awkward?

   • When mixed metaphors are parts of different discourse slots that is reason enough for the fact that little, if any awkwardness arises. M. Kimmel / Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2010) 97–115110 5.3.

   Why we mix metaphors (and mix them well): Discourse coherence

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8. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullNewspaper Metaphors: Reusing Metaphors Across Media Genres

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   Dec 19, 2012 · This article shows how the specific discourse situation and sociocultural context influence the development and degree of entrenchment of metaphor in language.