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Information and Experience in Metaphor: A Perspective From Computer Analysis [PDF]
, 1986 Novel linguistic metaphor can be seen as the assignment of attributes to a topic through a vehicle belonging to another domain. The experience evoked by the vehicle is a significant aspect of the meaning of the metaphor, especially for abstract metaphor,
Russell, Sylvia Weber
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Metaphor and Theological Realism [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, I argue that there are indispensable and irreducible metaphors in religious language and that this does not threaten a realist interpretation of religion.
Sebastian, Gäb
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn +6 more
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Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria, 2014 This article tries to understand, following Daniel Hameline and Nanine Charbonnel, why in education we cannot escape the presence and the function that metaphor plays inside the texts and the pedagogical and educational discourses.
Alberto Filipe ARAÚJO
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract A recent debate has emerged between Caspar et al. (2024) and Herculano‐Houzel (2023) on inferring extinct dinosaur cognition by estimating brain neuron counts. While thought‐provoking, the discussion largely overlooks the function of cognition, as well as partly neglects the difficulties involved in estimating neuron numbers, which according ...
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen +7 more
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Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus: a new resource for investigating metaphor in names [PDF]
, 2016 The AHRC-funded ‘Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus’ project has traced the development of metaphor in English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day using the unique evidence base of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English ...
Bramwell, Ellen +2 more
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Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine [PDF]
Medical Humanities, 2015 Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind?
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King Aorta: Narrative anatomy education
Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 264-276, March 2025.Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of narrative anatomy education and traditional anatomy education on academic achievement. The study included 64 students who were randomly divided into two groups. The two groups were (n = 32) control (Group 1) and (n = 32) experimental (Group 2). The pretest scores of the two groups were 36.
Halil Yilmaz
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Metaphors, Symbol, and Application “Purusha-Prakriti” [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding the meaning of metaphor and how metaphor used in the daily language as the background and fundamental before continuing in the next step of understanding, in using metaphor as the approaching in the design strategy. Relation the metaphor in
Nyoman, Dewi Pebryani, S.T., M.A
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The dispensability of metaphor [PDF]
, 2010 Many philosophers claim that metaphor is indispensable for various purposes. What I shall call the ‘Indispensability Thesis’ is the view that we use at least some metaphors to think, to express, to communicate, or to discover what cannot be thought ...
Grant, James
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