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Metaphor : Library
This literature review identifies and examines metaphorical concepts that have been associated with the word 'library' historically in an attempt to identify the possible role and function of libraries and librarians in the twenty-first century. Drawing on contemporary theories of metaphor, the …
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Metaphor and mathematics
Traditionally, mathematics and metaphor have been thought of as disparate: the former rigorous, objective, universal, eternal, and fundamental; the latter imprecise, derivative, nearly - if not patently - false, and therefore of merely aesthetic value, at best. A growing amount of contemporary …
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The metaphor of perspective
… and unity on the world. In Last Instructions the metaphor of the microscope functions as a framing device for reading Marvell’s poem. This enables Marvell to distort his subject matter in the name of “scientific” truth, with the deliberate failure to provide a unified image leaving the reader to …
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Rorty, Davidson, and Metaphor
In his essay "What Metaphors Mean," Donald Davidson gave a striking view of metaphor, claiming that metaphorical utterances have no meaning beyond the literal meanings of the words contained in them. Richard Rorty claims that this view of metaphor can be used to argue that cultural, moral, and …
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When is a Metaphor? Art Psychotherapy and the Formation of the Creative Relationship Metaphor
… of psychosis is able to use and comprehend metaphors. There are a number of studies that indicate that metaphor comprehension with this population is very reduced. However, within the context of psychotherapy metaphor is poorly defined and the concept is often applied inconsistently in …
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The magical realism of metaphor: cross-cultural comparisons in use of metaphor in cognition
… that due to linguistic and cultural factors, metaphor usage – or thinking in terms of what something is like – differs across cultures. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task supported the hypothesis that perception of what something is like tends to be faster and more automatic in Latino …
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Towards a Theory of Metaphor
Achieving insight through the understanding of a metaphor is not a process of losing one's subjectivity, ego, or selfhood, but is the uniting of that subjectivity, ego, or selfhood with what was thought to be, without insight, an external object. It is an imaginative advancement to the realization …
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Metaphor and ideology in film
Metaphor is not just a mere decorative device, but must be regarded as a central process in language and cognition. This dissertation explores the possibility to employ Max Black's interactional theory of metaphor and cognitive metaphor theory to study metaphor in film language. This point of view …
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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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Metaphor, metonymy, language learning and translation
… just in play in metonymic language but also in metaphoric and literal language. I argue that metonymy not only offers alternative ways of referring to entities, but is powerful in giving nuance and spin, and is the key to understanding why language is so fit for purpose in giving us the …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… The thesis is primarily concerned with the metaphorical uses of dress in literary, political and cultural discourses. More broadly, the thesis is concerned with how shifts in style, as presented in literature, reflect and inform transitions in social structures in South Asia, and its …
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Studies of embodied cognition and metaphor
… process abstract social concepts via the use of metaphors. According to this embodied perspective, bodily states or actions can cue metaphorically related social concepts and, in turn, influence our judgments in ways consistent with such physically experienced concepts. Drawing upon research on …
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Designing metaphor-fluid voice user interfaces
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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