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Metaphor in Use Context, Culture, and Communication [PDF]
Metaphoric language is very much the product of human action, and many scholars now claim that metaphor in language arises from metaphors in thought.
Sánchez-García, Manuel. +3 more
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Ecomedia: The metaphor that makes a difference [PDF]
, 2020 Media is an ambiguous metaphor that changes meaning depending on how it’s used by educators. Typically media are only characterized by how they represent reality and communicate ideas.
López, Antonio
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Energy Landscapes in Chemical Reactions and Transport
ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.Kinetics/dynamics of chemical reactivity and transport of chemical species in a solid are both determined by the energy landscape in which they take place. Discussing common grounds but also distinct differences may help in advancing the understanding in both fields.
Karl‐Michael Weitzel
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
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From embodied metaphors to metaphoric gestures. [PDF]
, 2016 Humans turn abstract referents and discourse structuresinto gesture using metaphors. The semantic relation be-tween abstract communicative intentions and their phys-ical realization in gesture is a question that has not beenfully addressed. Our hypothesis is that a limited set ofprimary metaphors and image schemas underlies a widerange of gestures. Our
Lhommet, Margot, Marsella, Stacy
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A Framework for Impression Management in Extra‐Financial Reporting
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how organisations employ impression management tactics in extra‐financial reporting, particularly in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. As stakeholder scrutiny and regulatory expectations intensify, organisations increasingly shape non‐financial disclosures to influence perceptions of ...
Laura Ribeiro +3 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable financial instruments are increasingly promoted as tools to accelerate firms' transition toward more sustainable business models. However, skepticism remains regarding their ability to generate substantive environmental outcomes.
Federica Tonnarello, Carlo Vermiglio
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Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2002 Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2002)
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The rôle of metaphor in the teaching of computing; towards a taxonomy of pedagogic content knowledge [PDF]
, 2004 The teaching of computing, like all subjects, requires a range of strategies to take the curriculum content (skills, knowledge, understanding and attitudes) and put it in a form that is more easily digested by learners.
Woollard, William John
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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