MANIPULATIVE TACTICS IMPLEMENTATION IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE by Tatyana P. Paliy, Inna N. Poteryakhina

“…The political discourse of modern society is a complex, multi-faceted and multi-level entity characterized by a variety of goals and objectives and functioning within the framework of current political, economic, geopolitical, cultural and other realities. Linguistic analysis of modern political discourse and, in particular, identification of the most frequent linguistic means of implementing manipulation in political discourse, is of particular relevance today and is important not just because it expands the theoretical scientific base, but for its practical value for the formation of a mature point of view and critical thinking when dealing with the texts of political discourse. …”
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Das Menschliche in der Musik . August Halms prozessuale Metaphorik im Brennpunkt analysetheoretischer Fragestellungen by Astrid Bolay

“…To justify his formal-aesthetic position, however, he is forced in his analysis of the Tempest Sonata – in contrast to a content-focused aesthetic interpretation of the same piece by Paul Bekker – to define the boundary between a “permissible” and a “no longer permissible,” overly “humanising” metaphor. A meta-linguistic analysis of his phrasing, following Lakoff and Johnson, reveals that human, ultimately body-based metaphorical concepts permeate his (and our) entire spatial as well as processual – and largely unconscious – understanding of music. …”
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From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” by Carmel Raz

“…The latter are also examined through a linguistic analysis of the vowel and syllabic distribution within the “Geographical Fugue” itself. …”
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YouVersion verses-of-the-year in relation to Afrikaans prepositional met and van constructions expressing fear and loneliness by L. Bergh, T. Beelders

“…The Cognitive Linguistics analysis of the prepositional constructions centres on them as asymmetrical constructions on a spatiotemporal continuum of use in relation to the human body. …”
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DIMINISHING RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST UNDERSTANDING by Muh Gufron Hidayatullah, Abu Bakar

“…In understanding a verse about war or killing, it is essential always to consider the historical context and use an adequate linguistical analysis to avoid mistakes in concluding the meaning of said passages. …”
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Compatible bedfellows: Enriching grammar pedagogical tasks with cognitive linguistics to teach present simple vs. progressive by Mojtaba Maghsoudi, Abolfazl Khodamoradi

“…Having been inspired by cognitive linguistic studies on English present tense and the theory of Cognitive Grammar, an empirical study was devised to incorporate the elements of cognitive linguistics analysis of English present progressive tense into EFL grammar teaching material. …”
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