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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Attributional Metaphor in Railway Terminology [PDF]

The report provides the analysis of two types of metaphor, the attributional and relational ones. The former is based on mere appearance matches while the latter is formed on the grounds of relational commonalities.
Tretjakova, Jeļena
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Cross‐disciplinary integration: Information practices and a role for information scholars. An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cross‐disciplinary research is a priority for many academic institutions, with a growing body of scholarship dedicated to studying the central practice of cross‐disciplinarity: integration, or the synthesis of knowledge, information, and data across disciplines and domains.
Ciara Zogheib
wiley   +1 more source

(Mega-) metaphor in the text-worlds of economic crisis: towards a situated view of metaphor in discourse [PDF]

, 2013
Building on Werth’s (1994) notion of ‘megametaphor’, in this thesis I examine the discourse-level conceptual effects of metaphor in five op-ed articles about the 2008 British financial crisis.
Browse, Sam
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Irony Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined verbal irony comprehension in monolingual and bilingual autistic children, focusing on irony recognition, intention understanding, cue use while deciphering ironic meanings, and error patterns. A low‐verbal, multimodal task was used to minimize linguistic and metalinguistic demands.
Maria Andreou, Stella Lampri, Eleni Peristeri   +2 more
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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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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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Metaphor in social thought [PDF]

Whereas a number of influences have directed the attention of sociologists and others towards language as a feature of social phenomena, these same influences have served to reveal wide discrepancies in the place accorded to figurative language, and to
Lambourn, David Malcolm
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A Large‐Scale Study on the Relation Between Multilingualism and Social Traits in Adults With and Without Autism Diagnoses

Autism Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent difficulties in social interaction and communication alongside restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. Emerging evidence suggests that bi/multilingualism may enhance social interaction skills, yet prior research has largely ...
Margreet Vogelzang, Sean Dong Wei Gan, Jamie Setch   +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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