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Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.
Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
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Abuso de la metáfora y laxitud conceptual en Comunicación

Mediaciones Sociales, 2013
En el campo de la Comunicación, la metáfora abunda por doquier. Entre las más importantes, la metáfora tecnológica implícita en la Teoría Matemática de la Comunicación ha sido una de las más omnipresentes e influyentes durante las últimas décadas, porque
Juan Ramón Muñoz-Torres
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Consorcios microbianos: una metáfora biológica aplicada a la asociatividad empresarial en cadenas productivas agropecuarias

Revista Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2010
Este artículo ofrece una nueva visión del modelo de asociatividad empresarial en cadenas productivas agropecuarias, mediante la propuesta de la metáfora biológica de los consorcios microbianos.
Diana Carolina Ochoa Carreño, Alexandra Montoya Restrepo   +1 more
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Lessons from a Rubik's Cube to solve the biodiversity crisis

Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 3, June 2025.
Abstract Global biodiversity is facing unprecedented pressures, calling into question the effectiveness of existing governance systems aimed at halting extinctions. Renewed hope arose with the recent Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15 December 2022) and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...
Ana M. M. Sequeira, Erika J. E. Techera
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Is This a Metaphor? On the Difficult Task of Identifying Metaphors in Scientific Discourse [PDF]

, 2007
This article focuses on the problem of metaphor identification in scientific language. In Conceptual Metaphor Theory, metaphors are often observed on the conceptual level.
Goschler, Juliana
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Standardized high‐dimensional spectral cytometry protocol and panels for whole blood immune phenotyping in clinical and translational studies

Cytometry Part A, Volume 105, Issue 2, Page 124-138, February 2024.
Abstract Flow cytometry is the method of choice for immunophenotyping in the context of clinical, translational, and systems immunology studies. Among the latter, the Milieu Intérieur (MI) project aims at defining the boundaries of a healthy immune response to identify determinants of immune response variation.
Tom Dott, Slobodan Culina, Rene Chemali, Cedric Ait Mansour, Florian Dubois, Bernd Jagla, Jean Marc Doisne, Lars Rogge, François Huetz, Friederike Jönsson, Pierre‐Henri Commere, James Di Santo, Benjamin Terrier, Lluis Quintana‐Murci, Darragh Duffy, Milena Hasan, Milieu Intérieur Consortium, Laurent Abel, Andres Alcover, Hugues Aschard, Philippe Bousso, Nollaig Bourke, Petter Brodin, Pierre Bruhns, Ana Cumano, Caroline Demangel, Christophe d'Enfert, Ludovic Deriano, Marie‐Agnès Dillies, James Di Santo, Gérard Eberl, Jost Enninga, Jacques Fellay, Ivo Gomperts‐Boneca, Milena Hasan, Magnus Fontes, Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, Serge Hercberg, Molly A. Ingersoll, Rose Anne Kenny, Olivier Lantz, Mickael Ménager, Frédérique Michel, Hugo Mouquet, Cliona O'Farrelly, Etienne Patin, Sandra Pellegrini, Stanislas Pol, Antonio Rausell, Frédéric Rieux‐Laucat, Lars Rogge, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Olivier Schwartz, Benno Schwikowski, Spencer Shorte, Frédéric Tangy, Antoine Toubert, Mathilde Touvier, Marie‐Noëlle Ungeheuer, Christophe Zimmer, Matthew L. Albert, Darragh Duffy, Lluis Quintana‐Murci   +62 more
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“Our study offers insight into…” Rhetorical promotion in English and Spanish conference abstracts

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 134-149, February 2024.
Abstract The conference abstract (CA) is an important promotional academic genre that allows scholars to introduce their research to their peers as a conference presentation if the proposal is accepted by the reviewing gatekeepers. However, few studies have explored the CA in specific disciplines and no studies have examined this genre from an ...
Pedro Martín, Sally Burgess
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Metafóras sobre cuerpo y alimentación en mujeres chilenas

Athenea Digital, 2023
Una metáfora conceptual constituye un proceso analógico del pensamiento que tiene su manifestación literal en expresiones lingüísticas que usamos en la vida cotidiana.
Carolina Godoy Berthet, Mauricio Alarcón Silva   +1 more
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Metáfora y estructura conceptual

Anuari de Filologia. Estudis de Lingüística, 2012
La lingüística cognitiva siempre ha argumentado que la metáfora no pertenece exclusivamente al lenguaje, sino que es una competencia que se basa en la habilidad humana de concebir un dominio de experiencia en términos de otro.
Emilia Castaño, Joseph Hilferty
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Novel metaphor and conceptual stability Metáfora nova e estabilidade conceptual

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2006
This paper discusses three radically different approaches to the issue of novel metaphor: the classic view, according to which metaphor is itself defined by its novelty with respect to our established conceptual systems; the cognitivist view, in which ...
Helena Martins
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