Analysis of visual metaphors in social media

Treball Final de Grau en Estudis Anglesos. Codi: EA0938. Curs acadèmic: 2016/2017From a Cogntive Linguistics point of view, a metaphor was understood as a tool that allows us to understand one conceptual domain in terms of another (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). Originally, metaphors were only considered from a verbal perspective. Later on, a whole new wave of research appeared to show that metaphors could also be explored from a different view. This research gave birth to a new concept called metaphor and modality. This concept's main focus was that in monomodal metaphors, the source and the target domain was exposed in the same mode whereas in multimodal metaphors, the source and the target domain were presented in different modes. Thus, the present paper aims to present a qualitative analysis of pictorial metaphors in social media. The goal of this analysis is to show that social media influences our perception of the world and often manipulates us and makes us captive of their use. In order to do so, I make use of a corpus of 6 pictorial metaphors and offer a comprehensive cognitive analysis of them. These images emphasize the manipulation of social media and techonology in today's society. Nevertheless, because the length of this paper is very limited, a more extended research would be useful to enrich the findings of this study

Public debt frontiers: The greek case

Las causas de la crisis de deuda Griega son otras distintas de la indisciplina fiscal. Los indicadores macroeconómicos desde el año 200 a 2006 no indicaban nada que pudiera presagiar el desastre. Causas de tipo estratégico en el manejo de la deuda parecen más razonables a la hora de explicar el fenómenoUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Public Debt Frontiers: The Greek Case

This paper attempts to quantify the maximum amount of debt that a government can sustain by itself, i.e., the limits to public indebtedness. Using a Dynamic General Equilibrium model where the government is fully characterized, we compute the steady state inverse relationship between the public debt to output ratio and the size of the government, measured as the total public expenditures to output ratio. This line is the budget constraint of a government in steady state. Calibration of the model for the Greek economy to fiscal targets reveals that, for the period just before the current recession, i.e. 2002-2006, the debt to GDP ratio was very close to the calculate limits wich depends dramatically on the interest rates. However, short after de financial crisis of 2008, sustained deficits drove the Greek economy to a point where the Greek Government crossed the debt limit where the country could only meet its debt obligations only if international investors where willing to lend. We conclude that the hight initial level of debts previous the crisis together with the rise in interest rates were the causes of the posterior debt crisis.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

La reconstrucción de las Historias de Salustio

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Sexo y castigo: el motivo de la prostitución como condena

El motivo de la doncella inocente condenada a servir como prostituta aparece tanto en la novela antigua como en las relaciones de martirio. Este artículo explora tanto su posible fundamento histórico y legal como sus implicaciones en la consideración de las protagonistas.The figure of the maiden condemned to a life of prostitution is often present in ancient novels and martyr accounts. This paper explores both the figure's possible historical and legal grounds and its implications for the treatment of the main character

Sexo y castigo: el motivo de la prostitución como condena

El motivo de la doncella inocente condenada a servir como prostituta aparece tanto en la novela antigua como en las relaciones de martirio. Este artículo explora tanto su posible fundamento histórico y legal como sus implicaciones en la consideración de las protagonistas.The figure of the maiden condemned to a life of prostitution is often present in ancient novels and martyr accounts. This paper explores both the figure's possible historical and legal grounds and its implications for the treatment of the main character