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The ultimate forgery: A semiotic deconstruction of large language models as engines of simulated selfhood

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Information science rests on a compact: its mediating signs maintain a traceable relation to what they describe. Large language models (LLMs) break it architecturally, generating discourse that is statistically plausible yet epistemically ungrounded, while standard metrics (precision, recall, relevance) cannot detect the rupture.
Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman
wiley   +1 more source

Leaving children behind for cross‐border education: Unveiling the emotional agency of international post‐graduate student mothers

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite growing interest in the internationalisation of higher education, the experiences of international student parents, particularly international student mothers, remain largely marginalised in research and policy. This paper examines the emotional agency of international student mothers who leave their children behind in their home ...
Anh Ngoc Quynh Phan, Ha Ngan Ngo, Chloe Le   +2 more
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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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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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METAFORA DALAM KUMPULAN CERPEN CHUBB CHATTĀ ATHRĀFI ‘L-ASHĀBI’ KARYA AHCMAD AL-GHARBĀWĪ

CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies), 2017
This paper is aimed to disscuss metaphor in the  anthology of short stories Chubb Chattā Athrāfi „l-Ashābi‟ written by Ahcmad Al-Gharbāwī (2010). The short stories anthology has studied because there are metaphores utterance used in.
Abdul Jawat Nur
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Is a Metaphor Merely a Metaphor?

Working Papers in Language Pedagogy, 2014
Any given language is replete with metaphors through which speakers of that language experience and interpret the world in which they live. Consequently, every language contains a more-or-less unique set of metaphors; speakers of each language see the world slightly differently, in part at least because they perceived their world through unique set of ...
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Teacher confidence and student engagement with mental health and wellbeing lessons: Learning from an iterative curriculum intervention in schools

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The mental health and wellbeing of young people has received increasing attention in both research and the wider public discourse. There has been a marked rise in mental health conditions in young people, and the burden of care is increasingly transferred onto schools and teachers.
Thomas Godfrey‐Faussett, Naomi French, Abbie Simpkin, Julian Turner, Tracey Riseborough, Natalie Coles, Ian Thompson   +6 more
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‘Self’ and ‘othering’ as a byproduct of large‐scale assessment: An investigation into the Gaokao retake policy

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
wiley   +1 more source

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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