Don L. F. Nilsen’s scientific contributions

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Publications (3)


On Metaphor
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January 1982

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19 Citations

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature

Don L. F. Nilsen

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Sheldon Sacks


Citations (2)


... The theoretical contrivances from CL that have been applied to English teaching in the past studies are mainly divided into two groups, i.e., the conceptual metaphor group and the core meaning group. CL holds that metaphorization is a natural feature of language, and thus conceptual metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980) (e.g., HAPPY IS UP, SAD IS DOWN) or conceptual manipulations including metaphor or metonymy have been applied to explain the reasonableness of the collocation of words or the existence of some word formation (e.g., Azuma & Littlemore, 2010, Boers, 2000a, 2000bDeignan, Gabryś & Solska, 1997;Gao, 2011;Lazar, 1996;Yasuda, 2010;Zoltán & Szabó, 1996). The other group uses the core meaning or core schema 1) (e.g., Akamatsu, 2010aAkamatsu, , 2010bCho & Kawase, 2011, 2012Fujii, 2011Fujii, , 2016aFujii, , 2016bSato, 2015;Strong, 2013;Verspoor & Lowie, 2003;Wijaya, 2014). ...

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Effects of Learners’ English Proficiency Level in Learning English Prepositions through the Schema-Based Instruction
Metaphors We Live by
  • Citing Article
  • January 1982

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature

... Someone who utters S in a metaphorical vein is recommending the project of (i) looking for games in which S is a promising move, and (ii) accepting the propositions that are S's inverse images in those games under the modes of presentation that they provide. 60. Sacks 1978, 44. 61. ...

On Metaphor
  • Citing Article
  • January 1982

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature