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Evaluating Metaphor Reification in Tangible Interfaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
International audienceMetaphors are a powerful conceptual device to reason about human actions. As such, they have been heavily used in designing and describing human computer interaction. Since they can address scripted text, verbal expression, imaging,
AF Blackwell   +38 more
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor in Translation: Cognitive Perspectives on Omar Khayyam’s Poetry as Rendered into English and Kurdish

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2017
As cognitive linguistics puts it, metaphor as a cognitive phenomenon can not be relegated to linguistic expression. Therefore, in order to analyze metaphor in translation, cognitive translation hypothesis investigates its translatability and metaphorical
Rahman VEISI HASAR, Ehsan PANAHBAR
doaj   +1 more source

"Something in the way she moves" -- metaphors of musical motion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
22 p.Our most fundamental concepts of musical motion and space, used by laypeople and music theorists alike, are defined by conceptual metaphors that are based on our experience of physical motion.
Johnson, Mark, 1949-
core   +1 more source

Sustaining the teaching profession: Innovating the ‘golden thread’ in university‐led teacher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the implications of England's ‘golden thread’ policy framework for teacher education, which describes a state‐mandated, linear model of professional learning from initial teacher training and education through to continuing professional development.
Amanda Nuttall   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internet Conceptual Metaphors

open access: yesJournal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences, 2016
Несмотря на то что механизм метафорического моделирования действительности посредством концептуальных метафор был описан представителями когнитивной семантики, по-прежнему не ясно, используют ли люди разных национальностей одни и те же или разные метафоры для концептуализации Интернета. Цель данной статьи – выявить и описать ключевые метафоры Интернета,
openaire   +2 more sources

Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

“Truth is like a vast tree”: Metaphor use in Gandhi’s autobiographical narration. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published work that appeared in final form in Metaphor and the Social World. To access the final edited and published work see http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/msw.7.1.07nea.
Neary, Clara
core   +1 more source

‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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