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Metaphor in Nightwish`s Dark Passion Play Album [PDF]

, 2014
This research focuses on metaphor used in Nightwish`s Dark Passion Play album. The research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data are collected from the song lyrics in Nightwish`s Dark Passion Play album.
Sampoerna, J. (Jaka), Silitonga, S. (Sortha)   +1 more
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Child As Metaphor: Colonialism, Psy-Governance, and Epistemicide [PDF]

, 2018
This paper mobilizes transdisciplinary inquiry to explore and deconstruct the often-used comparison of racialized/colonized people, intellectually disabled people and mad people as being like children.
Lefrancois, B. A., Mills, C.
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Where Do We Fit? Reflections on Research Interview Practice, Project Design, and Interpretation**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
What is special about historical research interviews in the history of science, technology, and medicine, and how do they compare to the tools of oral historians and social scientists? This essay reflects on three interview projects I have undertaken, each taking a distinct shape.
Dmitriy Myelnikov
wiley   +1 more source

A Formal Model of Metaphor in Frame Semantics [PDF]

, 2015
A formal model of metaphor is introduced. It models metaphor, first, as an interaction of “frames” according to the frame semantics, and then, as a wave function in Hilbert space.
Penchev, Vasil
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Cartooning in Biological Learning

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teaching bioscience subjects requires helping students understand complicated and abstract concepts. An effective method of helping students understand these abstract topics is the use of concept cartoons. Concept cartoons are cartoon‐style drawings that illustrate everyday situations. In constructivism, learners create their own knowledge and
Soukaina Bahsoun, Mhairi Morris, Elizabeth Akam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black & Davidson on Metaphor [PDF]

, 2007
Most theories of metaphor look at what occurs inside a metaphorical phrase and posit a shift in meaning in the metaphorical words. This includes the classic “Models and Metaphor,” by Max Black, who distinguishes between the literal words of the phrase ...
Ayoob, Emily
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Law Libraries and Laboratories: The Legacies of Langdell and His Metaphor [PDF]

, 2014
Law Librarians and others have often referred to Harvard Law School Dean C.C. Langdell’s statements that the law library is the lawyer’s laboratory.
A Bobrie, A Getahun, A Stief, A Stoeck, AK Rudolph, Birgitta Heyman, C Ma, CJ Padro, Daniel H. Conrad, DR Gibb, DR Gibb, EG Trams, F Henningsson, F Hjelm, F Hjelm, Frida Henningsson, FT Liu, JA Mathews, Keith B. Brooks, KJ Kim, KR Qazi, L Folgosa, MR Kehry, Rebecca K. Martin, Sophia N. Karagiannis   +24 more
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Metaphors across languages, cultures and discourses: A research agenda

Russian Journal of Linguistics
This special issue explores metaphor across languages, cultures, and discourses, bringing together papers that reflect the diversity and scope of this research area.
Aseel Zibin, Olga A. Solopova
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PEIRCEAN METAPHOR REEXAMINED: CREATION, FUNCTION AND INTERPRETATION [PDF]

Filozofia i Nauka, 2019
The Peircean iconic metaphor takes the concept of metaphor beyond linguistic and literary metaphors and does not even limit it to the “conventional metaphor” of Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive theory. Given Peirce’s short and somewhat ambiguous definition
Shekoufeh Mohammadi Shirmahaleh
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Metaphor in the ESP engineering context [PDF]

Ibérica, 2013
The explicit use of metaphor in the EFL classroom has been documented to enhance the communicative skills of learners (Cameron & Low, 1999; Cortazzi & Jin, 1999; Low, 1999; Littlemore & Low, 2006).
Ana Roldán Riejos, Paloma Ubeda Mansilla   +1 more
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