Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking
Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking

Author: Cornelia Müller

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0226548260

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Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive processes involved with the use of metaphor challenged these assumptions, but with little empirical support. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and psychology, Cornelia Müller here unveils a new approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a more dynamic model: sleeping and waking. To build this model, Müller presents an overview of notions of metaphor from the classical period to the present; studies in detail how metaphors function in speech, text, gesture, and images; and examines the way mixed metaphors sometimes make sense and sometimes do not. This analysis leads her to conclude that metaphors may oscillate between various degrees of sleeping and waking as their status changes depending on context and intention. Bridging the gap between conceptual metaphor theory and more traditional linguistic theories, this book is a major advance for the field and will be vital to novices and initiates alike.

Cut Dead But Still Alive
Cut Dead But Still Alive

Author: Dr. Gregory C. Ellison II

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1426771053

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To cut dead means to refuse to acknowledge another with the intent to punish. Gregory Ellison says that this is the plight of African American young men. They are stigmatized with limited opportunity for education and disproportionate incarceration. At the same time, they are often resistant to help from social institutions including the church. They are mute and invisible to society but also in their inward being. Their voice and physical selves are not acknowledged, leaving them ripe for hopelessness and volatility. So if the need is so great yet the desire for help wanes, where is the remedy? Healing can begin by reframing the problem. While to cut dead is destructive, it also refers to pruning and repotting a disfigured plant—giving it new possibilities for life. In this provocative book, Ellison shows how caregivers can sow seeds of life, and nurture with guidance, admonition, training, and support in order to help create a community of reliable others, serving as an extended family.

The Dead Alive and Busy
The Dead Alive and Busy

Author: Alan Shapiro

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-04-03

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9780226750514

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In his sixth book of poems, Alan Shapiro once again shows that he is a master at articulating the secrets of the heart. The Dead Alive and Busy deals with issues of personal identity as revealed through examining the intimate bonds of family life. The poems explore these familial relations in terms of the religious, social, and literary contexts that inform them, delving into such universal themes as human frailty, illness and death, bereavement, and thwarted desires. By turns lyrical and narrative, slangy and elevated, analytical and visionary, this collection showcases one of America's most important poets in his top form. Praise for Alan Shapiro: "Shapiro is a shrewd and sympathetic moralist. He never trivializes his subjects with high-minded flourishes or stylistic gimmicks."—J. D. McClatchy, New York Times Book Review

Skulduggery Pleasant – Apocalypse Kings
Skulduggery Pleasant – Apocalypse Kings

Author: Derek Landy

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-03-23

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 0008463921

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A brand new Skulduggery Pleasant novella for World Book Day: a hilarious and thrilling standalone story in the internationally bestselling series – perfect for new readers, and essential for Skulduggery fans...

Three Times Dead and Still Alive
Three Times Dead and Still Alive

Author: Deborah Walker

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780473177225

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This is the extraordinary autobiographical story of one family's faith in the face of crisis; a true testament of courage, determination, forgiveness and love. Surviving a horrific motor vehicle accident, they can witness that God is found in the deepest valley. In the face of suffering and separation, they could choose to be overwhelmed by their problems or by faith, rise up above them. Three Times Dead and Still Alive is an inspirational story that will challenge you to think differently about your trials and strengthen your walk with God. All things are possible. Only believe.

Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden

Author: David Ray Griffin

Publisher: Interlink Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781566567831

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"In this book, David Ray Griffin examines the evidence for the claim - made by everyone from former CIA agent Robert Baer to Oliver North - that bin Laden is surely no longer with us. He analyzes the purported messages from bin Laden and finds that, as many have suspected, they do not provide evidence of bin Laden's existence after 2001. This leads naturally to the question: if Osama bin Laden did indeed die in 2001, how and why have dozens of "messages from bin Laden" appeared since then?"--BOOK JACKET.

Still Alive Not Dead
Still Alive Not Dead

Author: Sherronda Barbine

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781986930581

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My autobiography is about a child of molestation that survives that and domestic violence, and drug and alcohol addictions. Some would say I would never return to any normal life, but I did through God.