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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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Metaphor, indeterminacy, and intention [PDF]
, 2002 David Cooper has argued that it is a constraint on any acceptable theory of metaphor that it account for the 'indeterminacy' of metaphorical content, that is, the sense that many metaphors admit of more than one acceptable interpretation, none of which ...
McGonigal, A.
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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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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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What Is Said by Metaphor [PDF]
, 2014 ‘What is said’ by an utterance, from a traditional truth-conditional view of language, is the uttered sentence’s conventionally encoded semantic meaning, and is distinguished from ‘what is implicated’, such as metaphor, which is understood as a type of ...
Ku, Hsiu-lin
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The Neural Basis of Metaphor Comprehension: Evidence from Left Hemisphere Degeneration
Neurobiology of Language, 2020 Despite the ubiquity of metaphor in cognition and communication, it is absent from standard clinical assessments of language, and the neural systems that support metaphor processing are debated.
Nathaniel Klooster +5 more
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Metaphor, skepticism, understanding Metaphor, skepticism, understanding
Ilha do Desterro, 2010 <p align="left">This paper examines the idea that metaphor is a basic cognitive tool from a Wittgensteinian point of view. One specific aspect of Wittgenstein’s legacy is explored, namely his account of verbal understanding.
Helena Martins
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Research Front and Future Prospect: A Bibliometric Study of Metaphor Comprehension
SAGE OpenMetaphor comprehension is an important component in the process of constructing metaphorical thinking. Therefore, the topic of “metaphor comprehension” should be a crucial part of metaphor studies.
Xunian Wang, Yi Sun
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, 2003 "Representation", "imitation" and "mirroring" have proved to be insufficient translations of the concept of mimesis. Walter Benjamin's notion of "mimetic potential" offers a different view on the qualities of mimesis.
Eder, Thomas
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