This study focuses on the coverage of environmental threats in German-language media. The methodology this is based ecolinguistic approach, particularly achievements media ecology, identifying harmonization space as a priority for journalism and relevant area linguistic studies. challenges caused by war Ukraine, threat imminent climate change, COVID-19 pandemic. effectiveness their presentation...

It is quite common in everyday language to hear sentences like (1)"I am parked out back" or (2)"He has a Picasso in his den". We can also easily imagine a situation where a waitress, speaking about a customer, says: (3)"The ham sandwich is at table 7" or a situation where a customer hands his key to an attendant at a parking lot and says: (4)"This is parked out back". All these expressions, (1)...

Abstract This article revisits the emergence of “comparative” and “world” literature within early nineteenth century, arguing that we can only understand full normative force two terms if read them rhetorically. In order to do this, draws on Roman Jakobson’s classic essay “Two Aspects Language Two Types Aphasic Disturbances” (1956). Jakobson makes a number claims in this essay, most celebrated ...

we deal with a wide range of colors in our daily life. they are such ubiquitous phenomena that is hard and next to impossible to imagine even a single entity (be it an object, place, living creature, etc) devoid of them. they are like death and tax which nobody can dispense with. this omnipresence of colors around us has also made its way through abstract and less tangible entities via the inte...

it seems that a great number of abstract religious concepts in islamic texts are realized, both conceptually and linguistically, through cognitive strategies like metaphor and metonymy. this article tries to study the concept of death in the holy qurۥān, and nahjul-balāgha, the main islamic texts, to see how this (relatively) abstract concept is conceptualized in mind? moreover, what component ...