This study aimed to identify the types of figurative language used in poems about COVID-19 and explain messages these poems. research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative methods. The data were taken from five on Internet. analyzed Leech’s theory Nurgiyantoro’s meanings language. There eight found poems: metaphor (14.5 %), personification (13.3 simile (16.9%), hyperbole (13.3%), irony...

There are several major proposals for treating donkey anaphora such as discourse representation theory and the likes, or E-Type theories and the likes. Every one of them works well for a set of specific examples that they use to demonstrate validity of their approaches. As I show in this paper, however, they are not very generalisable and do not account for essentially the same problem that the...

No one likes to be given bad news, and a diagnosis of dementia is devastating. How wonderful it would be though if the bad news and negative language stopped at that point. If someone tells you day after day that you’re suffering, you end up believing it. It has a negative impact on your wellbeing. The same would happen if you were told day after day that you are stupid—you end up thinking ther...

Abstract Aims Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are an expanding space for education/interprofessional discussion. Guidance regarding doctors’ use of social is available but much left open to interpretation, unlike the stringent guidelines used traditional media. Public postings unpoliced and can go viral - with sometimes devastating fallout. We aimed ascertain whether professional stand...

Creative linguistic devices like metaphor, simile and analogy serve two important roles in language. The first of these is to make the unfamiliar and the strange seem more familiar and understandable (Indurkhya, 1992). For instance, one might describe a burqa (a full body covering for Muslim women) as a suit of armor, as a shield against prying eyes or, depending on one’s communication goal, as...

The elongation of very-long-chain fatty acids is a conserved process used for the production of many metabolites, including plant cuticular waxes. The elongation of precursors of the most abundant cuticular wax components of some plants, however, is unique in requiring ECERIFERUM2-LIKE (CER2-LIKE) proteins. CER2-LIKEs are a clade within the BAHD superfamily of acyltransferases. They are known t...