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Conceptual metaphors in taboo-induced lexical variation

open access: yes, 2011
Taboo is deeply woven into every culture and society, which is obviously reflected in vocabulary. Indeed, taboo keeps language users from avoiding the forbidden concept and compels them to preserve or violate it, which leads to endless series of cross ...
Crespo Fernández, Eliecer
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Teacher confidence and student engagement with mental health and wellbeing lessons: Learning from an iterative curriculum intervention in schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The mental health and wellbeing of young people has received increasing attention in both research and the wider public discourse. There has been a marked rise in mental health conditions in young people, and the burden of care is increasingly transferred onto schools and teachers.
Thomas Godfrey‐Faussett   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enterprise architecture modelling using elastic metaphors

open access: yes, 2004
Despite the hype surrounding enterprise architectures, they have delivered little on their promise. In this paper, we argue that enterprise architectures built using component-based frameworks are fundamentally flawed, in that they model the enterprise ...
Khoury, Gerald R.   +3 more
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Conceptual Metaphors in the Literary Texts

open access: yes, 2023
This article deals with the problems of conceptual metaphors, the notion of conceptual metaphor as a cognitive model, a way of thinking, and one of the fundamental processes of human cognition, a specific way of conceptualizing information based on the ...
Hurliman, K. (Koptileuova)   +1 more
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‘Self’ and ‘othering’ as a byproduct of large‐scale assessment: An investigation into the Gaokao retake policy

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
wiley   +1 more source

A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
wiley   +1 more source

The metaphors in Truth and Heart: a comparative study of the phraseological lexicon from a parallel corpus

open access: yesSigno, 2019
This paper aims to carry out the analysis of the phraseological lexicon formed by the words truth and heart and their translations into Portuguese taken from a parallel corpus composed by the subtitles in English and Portuguese of five seasons of the ...
Marilei Amadeu Sabino   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organizational Culture through Orientations and Metaphors: Some Hints to the Tacit Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes
The main goal of our study is to examine the possibilties to lead tacit through a lens of organizational culture assessed by orientations and metaphors. Organizational culture may open important issues because this phenomenon evolves values, assumptions ...
Maaja VADI, Gerli HAMMAL
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Automatic Identification of Conceptual Metaphors With Limited Knowledge

open access: yes, 2013
Complete natural language understanding requires identify-ing and analyzing the meanings of metaphors, which are ubiquitous in text and speech. Underlying metaphors in lan-guage are conceptual metaphors, partial semantic mappings between disparate ...
Lisa Gandy   +18 more
core   +1 more source

Green Is the New Gold: Redefining Opulent Lifestyle Through Organic Food Purchases

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Prior studies based on the Theory of Planned Behavior mostly examined the effects of health and environmental concerns on organic food consumption; however, few addressed the paradoxical relationships in the context of opulent or symbolic decorum.
Neha Sharma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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