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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Conceptual integration"”.
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Characterising A-level Students' Conceptual Integration Between Physics and Chemistry
Conceptual integration refers to the way students relate and structure their knowledge across two or more domains of knowledge; hence, the degree of linking and the level of coherence between ideas across the areas. It has been argued that conceptual integration is important to science learning in …
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Computational Linguistic Models of Mental Spaces
… framework. Fauconnier's and Turner's work on Conceptual Integration and current theories of dynamic systems are further inspiration for a model of conceptual integration using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a topic modelling algorithm. We choose three experiments with which to validate the …
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Análisis microcognitivo de los compuestos nominales en un lexicón de inglés contemporáneo
… Langacker's Cognitive Grammar, the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor as proposed by Lakoff and Johnson, Turner and Fauconnier's Theory of Conceptual Integration as well as Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon. All of these approaches have been pervasively influenced by a background on connectionism.We …
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Assimilation and Accommodation in Self-Conception: Towards a Dynamic Theory of Self-Representation
… controversy. This dissertation provided a conceptual integration of discrepant finding in the literature that concern the stability of information related to the self. It proposed a methodology for examining the stable and dynamic aspects of self-knowledge within the context of an …
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The bones of the book: schematic structure and meaning made from books.
… were treated as data and analysed using a conceptual framework developed by Talmy (2000) and through the diagramming of conceptual integration networks (Fauconnier and Turner 2002; Turner 2014). Additional evidence was sought through the identification of conventional and conceptual …
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An integration of friendship and social support : relationships with adjustment in college students
A conceptual integration of friendship and social support, explored via factor analysis, was examined in relation to adjustment in 242 undergraduate university men and women. Despite considerable overlap between theoretical components of adult friendship and social support, empirically these two …
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Oceanic languages: A comparative investigation of pre-clausal constructions
… being developed with recourse to the models of Conceptual Blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003) and the Greater Attentional System (Oakley 2004, 2009), as well as the typology of conceptual blends proposed by Brandt (2013:415–422). Accordingly, it is argued that PRE …
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Leadership and culture: Developing a constructivist approach to social organizing.
… based theory of social organizing through the conceptual integration of leadership and culture; (2) design and conduct a training and application initiative focused on the construction of a leadership theory customized to the participants' culture; and (3) engage participants in an open-ended …
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Unexpected Accompaniment: Cognitive Mechanisms for Language-Music Mismatch in Time
… including among others the progression of time, conceptual distance (Gärdenfors 2000), processes of conceptual integration and disintegration (Fauconnier and Turner 2002), construction (Croft 2001; Langacker 2008), and intention. Analyzed for illustration are two passages from Wagner's music …
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Path Dependency or Path Creation? Transitions in Policy Ideas and Reform Strategies in Contemporary New Zealand Pension Politics
… interesting counterexample, demonstrating that conceptual integration and "ambiguous" reform strategies can still be effective under established political systems. In conclusion, this study enriches the theory of path dependency and offers new insights into welfare state reforms from a new …
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"A relevância do item lexical "mão" na língua portuguesa : uma abordagem cognitiva"
O presente estudo tem como objetivo responder a algumas questões relacionadas com a importância do lexema ‘mão’ na língua portuguesa segundo o enquadramento teórico da Linguística Cognitiva. Segundo esta perspetiva, a mente é corporizada e os significados que atribuímos às palavras resultam da …
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Bridging the Gap: Generative Machines and Inventive Minds
… systems and studies that investigate the integration of human and machine effort in content creation. This includes work on conceptual integration in AI-assisted story writing, author-in-the-loop description authoring for accessibility of complex scientific figures, and generative …
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Resilience Through Infrastructure Asset Management Long-term Planning
… of the tools in multi-hazard scenarios, their integration of well-being indicators, and their robustness under uncertainty. Such structured comparative analysis provides planners and researchers with clear guidelines for choosing appropriate methodologies aligned with resilience objectives and …
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Influencing child care social work: the curiosity of an experienced practitioner
… of this context statement is set out as a conceptual integration where I assemble the essential core concepts and practices that have come to inform my work and that I believe are essential elements in assisting children to recover from some of the harsh and damaging realities of life that …