This paper examines metaphorical expressions labelled under the conceptual metaphor A WOMEN IS AN OBJECT originating from 30 performances by female North American stand-up comedians. By combining Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980/2003) and comedy research, this corpus- dictionary-assisted study how women womanhood are conceptualized in terms of objects such as buildings, fo...

Bu makalede Cahit Uçuk’un Hep Yarın romanında, gündelik hayatın kadına dayattığı yaşam ve bunun bir kadınlık hikâyesi üzerinden nasıl ele alındığı sunulmuştur. Roman, Henri Lefebvre’nin sefaleti büyüklüğü diye nitelendirdiği iki açısı alınmış olup söz konusu açıyı anlatırken ortaya çıkan çeşitli kimliklerin açıklanmasında Carl Gustav Jung’un arketipsel yaklaşımından yararlanılmıştır. Çalışmada ...

Abstract Following the foundation of NHS in 1948, a new sub-genre romantic fiction emerged: ‘Doctor–Nurse’ romances, usually involving romance between male doctor and female nurse, were set hospitals. Drawing on Mills & Boon archive novels themselves, this article explores representations health service notions gendered healthcare professionalism postwar Britain. I argue that rather than pr...

the subject of womanhood is an attempt to explain why the woman is a symbol of self. i will start the paper with the story of “a’arabi and the caliph” from the view point of symbol and then i will continue with the definition of self, symbol, why the woman is a symbol of self as it is believed by mystics. the allegorical result based on najm razi’s theory shows the accompaniment of self with wi...