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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Mark Johnson"”.
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Les metàfores de la salut mental : Estudi sobre el discurs de persones que pateixen trastorns mentals
… de conceptualitzar la realitat. George Lakoff i Mark Johnson foren els primers de posar de manifest aquest fet a "Metaphors we live by" (1980). En aquest treball, ens centrarem en l'àmbit de la salut mental. En particular, prendrem en consideració les persones que pateixen esquizofrènia, trastorn …
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Metaphor and mathematics
… linguistic to the conceptual - as George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, and many other contemporary metaphor scholars do - overcomes problems plaguing traditional theories and promisingly advances our understanding of both metaphor and of concepts. It is argued that conceptual metaphor plays a key role in …
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James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991
… the context of a particular time framework that marked the end of the Cold War and which resulted in significant geopolitical changes across the globe. While recognizing the importance of larger events, such as the attempts to restructure the Soviet economy and society, this thesis argues for the …
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James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991
… the context of a particular time framework that marked the end of the Cold War and which resulted in significant geopolitical changes across the globe. While recognizing the importance of larger events, such as the attempts to restructure the Soviet economy and society, this thesis argues for the …
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Music, action, and narrative in film : an energetic and gestural approach to film score analysis
… Music theorists and philosophers, such as Mark Johnson, Janna Saslaw, Robert Hatten, and Steve Larson, have commented on the value of considering music through one’s embodied experiences. Film and music are inherently energetic, as both contain perceivable energies and forces. Analyzing the …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
… op die metafoorteorie van George Lakoff (1993), Mark Johnson (1987), Lakoff en Johnson (1980, 1999), Zoltan Kövecses (1997, 2010) en Joseph Grady. Verder word beginsels uit die kritiese diskoersanalise betrek, na aanleiding van Michel Foucault (2002), Jonathan Charteris-Black (2004) en Alice …
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Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate
… in biological anthropology, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in empirical linguistics and Annette Karmiloff-Smith in developmental psychology. These researchers are also involved in cognitive science investigations that bear on evolutionary psychology's key claims about the mind and how it works. …
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Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko
… metaphor developed by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson from 1980 onwards and subsequently elaborated in respect of emotion metaphors by Zóltan Kövecses. In the theories of Kövecses, emotions are perceived as forces. This dissertation tests the applicability of these theories to metaphors of …
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Fighting with Reality: Considering Mark Johnson's Pragmatic Realism Through Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do Method
… supportive and complementary relation between Mark Johnson’s embodied realism and Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do as a philosophical practice. In exploring this relationship, the emphasis on one’s embodiment condition and its relationship with metaphor and self-expression are the primary focus. First, …
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Design and control of an autonomous variable-pitch quadrotor helicopter
… To the best of the author's knowledge, this work marks the first documented, autonomous variable-pitch quadrotor built for agile and aggressive flight.
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Reinforcement learning for robots through efficient simulator sampling
Reinforcement learning (RL) has great potential in robotic systems as a tool for developing policies and controllers in novel situations. However, the cost of realworld samples remains prohibitive as most RL algorithms require a large number of samples before learning near-optimal or even useful …
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Three essays on labor and urban economics
… can be understood as a combination of lost labor market experience, a decrease in the return to university, and an insignificant return to CEGEP. The results are robust to the inclusion of controls and across years of data. Possible interpretations of the results are discussed. The second essay, …
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Radical dialectics in the experimental poetry of Berssenbrugge, Hejinian, Harryman, Weiner, and Scalapino
In this dissertation, I focus on the work of five contemporary experimental poets - Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Hannah Weiner, and Leslie Scalapino - in order to demonstrate various aspects of a philosophical dynamic at work in their poetry. The critical debates surrounding …