Pragmatic Investment of Figurative and Non-Figurative Designations: The Case of the Egyptian Revolution in Arabic and English Contexts

M. Hassan

DOI:10.22425/JUL.2018.19.2.53

Corpus ID: 158820538

Pragmatic Investment of Figurative and Non-Figurative Designations: The Case of the Egyptian Revolution in Arabic and English Contexts

@article{Hassan2018PragmaticIO,
  title={Pragmatic Investment of Figurative and Non-Figurative Designations: The Case of the Egyptian Revolution in Arabic and English Contexts},
  author={M. Hassan},
  journal={Journal of Universal Language},
  year={2018},
  volume={19},
  pages={53-83}
}

M. Hassan

Published 2018

Sociology

Journal of Universal Language

The problem why a speaker or a writer assigns a certain designation for the Egyptian revolution in 2011 is the primary focus of this paper. For this objective, this paper investigates underlying conceptual relations between the literal word „revolution‟ and its different figurative and non-figurative Reda Ali Hassan Mahmoud Associate professor, Department of English, University of Minya, Egypt Email: redaaly@mu.edu.eg Received 8 March, 2018; Revised 20 June, 2018; Accepted 10 July, 2018… CONTINUE READING

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