Metonymy and the polysemy of<i>Covid</i>in Italian

Pannain, Rossella; Pace, Lucia di

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“…"If you have to offend someone, at least do it in such a way as to avoid contradicting the principle of politeness and allow the listener to indirectly grasp the offending point in your words by deducing the meaning." This is the role of metaphor [9][10].…”

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Translation of Metaphorical Information in Japanese Literature Combined with Text Mining Techniques

Wang

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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Japanese literature is renowned for its conciseness and the profound, multi-layered meanings conveyed through its economical use of language and rich symbolic content. This paper explores the creative impact of these linguistic features in Japanese literature by analyzing the deep meanings and varied classifications of literary metaphors. The construction of a Japanese literature corpus involved the collection, cleaning, and organization of Japanese literary texts, followed by the selection of specific linguistic features. The corpus was then aligned using a dynamic programming approximation algorithm. A semantic representation model of the Japanese literature text corpus was developed by integrating the Attention Word Embedding Model with the Extended Topic Information Model, and metaphoric corpus features were fused using the static fusion strategy of Extended Topic Information and Attention Word Embedding. This study also examines the translation of symbolic information in Japanese literature, focusing on linguistic and stylistic features. The findings reveal that translations into Chinese tend to employ augmentation translation, resulting in 1,706 additional sentences compared to the original Japanese texts. Furthermore, the lexical density in the Chinese translation reference corpus is 2.45 percentage points higher than in the Japanese literature corpus. Analysis of verb modifications shows that among the 90 altered verbs in the Chinese translation corpus, only 24 have corresponding instances in the original Japanese texts. Text mining techniques were employed to conduct a deep analysis of symbolic content, enhancing the understanding of the nuanced connotations inherent in Japanese literature.

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Translation of Metaphorical Information in Japanese Literature Combined with Text Mining Techniques

Wang

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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The COVID-19 pandemic and changing meanings of flatten the curve

Kang,

Kwon

2023

RCL

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This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the meanings of the phrase flatten the curve before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from two corpora, the iWeb Corpus and the Coronavirus Corpus, it focuses on semantic frames (Fillmore, 1985) and frame metonymy (Dancygier & Sweetser, 2014). The investigation reveals that the construal of the phrase after the outbreak of COVID-19 requires the invocation of both bell curve and pandemic frames; that is, without the pandemic frame, the phrase would remain in the domain of statistics and refer to a change in a graph. The data are sorted into four semantic categories based on the context in which they appear (epidemiological/non-epidemiological) and on the effect they pursue regarding the flattening-the-curve scenario (rigorous/non-rigorous). The phrase’s polysemy is explained by the part of the process for effect of the process metonymy. The flatter curve, as a salient part of a scenario, serves to refer to one of the scenario’s effects. The analysis also observes a correlation between the real-world experience of the pandemic and the actual frequency of flatten the curve in that the ratio of each semantic category reflects the contemporaneous real-world significance of reducing the rate of increase of new infections.

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Metonymy and the polysemy ofCovidin Italian

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Translation of Metaphorical Information in Japanese Literature Combined with Text Mining Techniques

Translation of Metaphorical Information in Japanese Literature Combined with Text Mining Techniques

The COVID-19 pandemic and changing meanings of flatten the curve

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