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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Visual metaphor"”.
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Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives
… of drawn narratives are structured by metaphorical conceptualisation. The argument develops from the observation that metaphor theory does not account for the perceptual character of depiction. I begin by focusing on an overlooked distinction between "pictures that are metaphors" and …
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Understanding stress and health through the use of visual metaphor.
… on public understanding of stress is scarce. Metaphors are useful in translating science to the public. This research programme aimed to (1) explore lay and scientific understanding of stress, (2) identify the possible discrepancies between these perspectives, (3) develop a set of visual …
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Portraying Anxiety Disorders in Picturebooks: An Exploration into Using Picturebooks as an Interface Between Therapists and Young Adults (age 18–34)
… analysed. In contrast, theories of visual metaphor have been utilised in researching the embodiment of illness in comics and graphic novels (Miers, 2017; El Refaie, 2019). For instance, graphic novels and comics about depression have been analysed to explore the effectiveness of …
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Understanding the role of visual metaphors in emerging media arts research and practice
The concept of metaphor has made significant contributions to expanding our horizons and range of knowledge and experience over the centuries. Using the associations between source and target domains, metaphors enable rich expressions in arts and culture, from literature, painting, and music to …
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Fabricated Perceptions
… to the creation of my concepts. Themes of visual metaphor, trompe l’oeil, diorama, and contrasting spatial relationships of objects are explored. Each piece carries its own interpretation that is kept open ended for the viewer. My goal for this art series is to amuse, provoke imagination, …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… To explain how the imaginary friend works as a visual metaphor in illustrated narratives, I borrow principles of image-making and their effect on children, as discussed by Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles, and Molly Bang. Through examples by picture book makers Maurice Sendak, who uses the device …
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Experiential learning: The development of a pedagogic framework for effective practice.
… in a framework presented as an abstract, visual metaphor. This research acknowledges the intentionality of design, and considers the learner as a fully embodied self, sensuously and intersubjectively interacting with their outer world (Abram, 1997). The final framework is develops an …
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The middle of nowhere: the photographic search for an unknown landscape
… of landscape photography and contemporary visual culture, the “middle of nowhere” reveals itself as a visual metaphor for escape and environmental utopia. “Nowhere” is a journey for the unknown, and the recognition of presence felt in absence when faced with the unfamiliar (that presence …
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Classification of Protein Domain Movements using Dynamic Contact Graphs
… of domain movements, and second they provide a visual metaphor for the movements they depict. Using this method it was possible to classify 1822 domain movements from the “Non-Redundant Database of Protein Domain Movements” into sixteen different classes by decomposing the graphs for each …
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Embodied Responses to Materiality in the Making and Reading of Comics
… the function of materiality in the structure of visual metaphor. As reproduction technologies continually develop, mimicking the indexes of materials through novel forms, new inter-constitutive relationships between the body and surfaces of reproduction are opened up. A study of the kind …
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LOOKING FOR A FAIRER ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT AND ATTAINMENT IN THE INFANT YEARS: AN EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH CASE STUDY
… research process is uniquely represented by the visual metaphor of a multi-layered jigsaw puzzle that enables the researcher to uncover successive, significant layers of professional knowledge in the infant school that relate to the concept of a fairer assessment of children's learning, …
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The effects of theatrical storytelling and scenography on children: The case of children's theatre in the ghetto of Terezín (1941-45)
… this study, which also explores how a theatrical/visual metaphor can express the ineffable. Furthermore, the interaction between reality and fantasy through theatre providing ways to experience and deal with reality with the support of our imagination is investigated. The effects of theatre on the …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
… his own moral universe. Emerson's prose utilizes visual metaphors to express ideas which escape conventional language usage. The poet, according to Emerson, would have the ability to trace words back to their original associations with things, and thus reveal the true world of facts. His emphasis …
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Snapshot photography : a phatic, socially constructed mnemonic technology
… the deconstruction and textualisation of the visual metaphor of memory through the rhetorical devices of ekphrasis and memory texts and a visualisation of the nature and originary technicity of snapshot photography and an exploration of self and place. The thesis for this study is founded on …
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Language and metaphor in postmodern architectural meaning: an interpretative model
… and the complex relationship between visual image and language, since language has to emerge holistically as an aspect of architectural meaning. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One comprises four theoretical chapters which are not necessarily 'about' architecture as such, …
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Learning to use melodic similarity and contrast for narrative using a Digital Tabletop Musical Interface
… “touch” music, and experience it through various visual representations, in addition to its aural representation, digital tabletops provide an intuitively approachable way of making music that supports both beginners and experts, and allows them to collaborate and exchange knowledge and ideas. …
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Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry: Risk and Protective Factors for the Left-Behind Children in the Northern Shaanxi Province, China With Gender Comparison
… Children, remote pre-interview activities (e.g., visual metaphor and storytelling on WeChat) were specifically employed in 2020. These activities enabled the child participants to recall and select memories to share, diminishing the inequitable power relationship between the researcher and the ii …
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Metaphors of Command and Control in the United Kingdom and the United States America : Developing a Communicative Framework to Enhance Interoperability for Emergency Management Organisations
… The research design embraces linguistic and visual metaphor to answer the Central Research Question “how do U.K. and U.S. emergency management practitioners metaphorically interpret Command and Control?”<br/><br/>The collated data were analysed using content analysis to identify general …