This paper aims at describing the role and different manifestations of metaphor in scientific discourse, drawing a distinction between creative conventional metaphors. To this end, corpus composed nineteen Nobel lectures, delivered by women, will be analysed means critical discourse analysis theoretical methodological tool, with particular attention to framing that produced discourse. Our shows...

Isa 6:9-10 is examined in its local (Isaiah 6) and broader (Isaiah 1-12) contexts, as well as in relation to the rest of the book and (briefly) extraIsaianic passages of Scripture. Following a literary analysis in form, redactional, and rhetorical-critical terms, theological argumentation is developed consistent with the thesis of the paper. It is argued that the motif of deafness and blindness...