The Covid-19 pandemic has generated a number of studies on the use metaphor to frame disease and trope been presented as prominent feature discourse. war identified master for framing health emergency, prompting reflections about its possible drawbacks feasible alternative framings in order generate more constructive stance among general public, politicians administrators.
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First published in 1918, Rebecca West’s debut novel The Return of the Soldier focuses on a common trope Great War Literature: traumas war and difficulties returning veterans to fit back with everyday life. story shell-shocked soldier Chris Baldry, who suddenly finds himself world which has aged 15 years beyond his memory, may be read as unfolding multi-layered drama hospitality, host-guest cont...

This essay examines the representation of Volscians in two texts, Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and a letter Lady Arbella Stuart’s referring to Virgil’s Camilla. It argues that for both authors, it matters relationship between Romans could trope Scots English. In month which Queen Elizabeth died, Stuart reached Volscian as way connect herself Scotland; five years later, wake James’s failed attempt a...

This dissertation examines the relationship between two social psychological theories: Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954) and Construal Level Theory (Liberman & Trope, 1998). More specifically, this research assesses how a person’s level of mental abstraction (i.e., construal level) might influence the way social comparison information from individuals or aggregates is used to form self...

Moral judgments are not produced by a unified “moral faculty.” Instead, they are influenced by a combination of automatic emotional responses and controlled cognitive processes with distinctive cognitive profiles (Cushman, Young, & Hauser, 2006; Greene, Morelli, Lowenberg, Nystrom, & Cohen, 2008; Moore, Clark, & Kane, 2008; Paxton, Ungar, & Greene, 2011) and neural substrates (Greene, Sommervil...

Variation is considered a universal principle in music. In terms of semiotics, variation in music is omnipresent and distinguishes music from language (Middleton, 1990). In oral music traditions, variation is introduced to the music due to the absence of a concrete notation. In this paper we investigate melodic stability and variation in cadences as they occur in oral and semi-oral traditions. ...

Taking the realms of business, finance and economic history by storm, polycrisis captures complexity an increasingly uncertain world in a state flux transition. Proponents model, such as prominent historian Financial Times contributing editor Adam Tooze, propose marker our age, capturing overlapping interconnected crises beyond cause effect. In his article, authors offer some prompts for consid...