The Need for a Metaphor
Specifying Viewpoint and Information Need with Affective Metaphors: A System Demonstration of the Metaphor Magnet Web App/Service
... The system allows users to enter queries such as Google is –Microsoft, life is a +game, Steve Jobs is Tony Stark, or even Rasputin is Karl Rove (queries are case-sensitive). Each query is expanded into a set of apt ...
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Metaphor in Chemistry: An Examination of Chemical Metaphor
... the metaphor is literal, then switches to a more abstract metaphor for which there is no experiential basis, or even runs contrary to the expectations of naïve ...concrete metaphor to abstract ...
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Metaphor
... of metaphor which, if attended to, are unmistakably metaphorical, but whose intended meaning within context is nevertheless immediately ...The need for a distinction between transparent and non-transparent ...
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Network as Metaphor
... And this takes us to another point: what does it mean to be identified as being a part of a network when one is not aware of it? Is the network ‘real’? What would that mean, in terms of how we might experience it? And ...
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Introducing Metaphor
... Time is a great healer. It’s a race against time. The sands of time are running out. Had any of these conceptualizations developed as extensively as TIME IS MONEY, we might conceive of time quite differently. How might ...
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The dispensability of metaphor
... do need the concept of a game of make-believe to carry out this ...not need to use S metaphorically in order to think of games within which S is a promising move, nor to think of what plausible and ...
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The metaphor of proportionality
... this metaphor – out of many others which might have had a resonance in relation to the need to limit punishment - has such appeal, and in doing so to miss something of importance to socio-legal ...
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THE METAPHOR IS THE MESSAGE: THOMAS AQUINAS ON BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND METAPHOR BY RICH LUSK
... 15 See, for example, ST I.22 and I.103. 16 ST I.1.10. The “so far as” qualifiers show that Aquinas was sensitive to the danger of forcing the fourfold method onto the text. 17 Some might object to this collapsing of ...
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Animal Metaphor in Gĩkũyũ
... When the mobile phone was introduced, it was a new object among the Agĩkũyũ people and they did not have a name for it, and it was still being referred to as thimu, a word which is borrowed from Kiswahili ‘simu’ which is ...
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Metaphor, indeterminacy, and intention
... a metaphor, the speaker's intention concerning how it should be understood can be essentially ...no need for the intention theorist to have to make the case that in intending to authoritatively convey a ...
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The metaphor of ‘linguistic relativity’
... that need to be considered to talk about the observation that in English could be expressed in the sentence “The stone ...would need to be made between ‘the ...
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Metaphor
... the metaphor, i m p o r t a n c e i s s i z e ...a metaphor for ancestry is probably known only to a small share of those who heard Obama’s speech (mainly people who have studied the history of science), ...
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Metaphor
... The majority of these studies adopted the qualitative approach and focused on the teacher-produced rather than the learner-generated metaphors. On the other hand, research that employs metaphor analysis to examine ...
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Metaphor Suggestions based on a Semantic Metaphor Repository
... Table 2 shows the number of words immediately con- nected to schemas. It first lists the overall number, and then provides the breakdown by schemas that serve as tar- get schema for some metaphor and schemas that ...
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Botany and Metaphor
... I learned a lot through the seminars when other students presented their works, their working methodologies and the relevant theories. This learning process has matured my method of working and helped me to evaluate my ...
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Metaphor and translation
... Sale's, Rodwell's and Pickthall's translations, by providing the deep meaning of the original only, have deleted the original metaphor with its emotive power meant[r] ...
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Myth as metaphor
... terms, metaphor is viewed as founded in the logic of otherness and excess and involves a movement of displacement that leads sense outside the sphere of the same, the commonplace, plain ...meaning. Metaphor ...
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Metaphor and Discourse
... 2. Metaphors in Urban Planning 2.1. Introduction As linguists and as residents of an area of the old city which is undergoing a process of redevelopment or gentrification, we became interested in metaphors when we ...
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Cancer as a metaphor
... in the latter kind of cases that the choice of cancer as a metaphor may have the biggest influence on how the relevant phenomena are perceived. We now consider the seven highly frequent CancerCats in turn and ...
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The Metaphor of Patina
... Pierre Fontanier (Fontanier, 1968) stated that “thought consists of ideas, and the expression of thought by speech consists of words”. The word “idea” (Greek “eido” = to see) means the “image” of objects seen by the ...
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