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Does slow flow mean calmness? Metaphorical connection mechanism between emotional concepts and water flow. [PDF]
Front PsycholIntroductionCurrent explorations of the metaphorical relationship between emotions and water have primarily focused on the literary and linguistic dimensions, where emotions are expressed through the concepts and characteristics of water.
Xiong W, Yang F, Shi H.
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An Embodied Tutoring System for Literal vs. Metaphorical Concepts. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 In this paper we combine motion captured data with linguistic notions (preliminary study) in a game-like tutoring system (study 1), in order to help elementary school students to better differentiate literal from metaphorical uses of motion verbs, based ...
Sionti M, Schack T, Aloimonos Y.
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Metaphorical concepts in molecular biology students’ texts – a way to improve subject-matter understanding [PDF]
Nordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education, 2016 Earlier research brings evidence that metaphors facilitate our understanding of the world. In this study we explore Bachelor students’ popular science articles on molecular biology with the aim to determine the frequency and nature of metaphorical ...
Alexandra Fredriksson, Susanne Pelger
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Mediaeval and Modern Metaphorical Concepts of Emotions [PDF]
ELOPE, 2014 This article aims to study emotion metaphors found in a selection of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and compare them with conventional modern metaphors from current dictionaries and other sources, in order to find out whether mediaeval emotional metaphorical
Lidija Štrmelj
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Shared mental representations underlie metaphorical sound concepts
Scientific Reports, 2023 Communication between sound and music experts is based on the shared understanding of a metaphorical vocabulary derived from other sensory modalities. Yet, the impact of sound expertise on the mental representation of these sound concepts remains blurry.
Victor Rosi +4 more
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Metaphorical Perceptions of Gifted Students towards Mathematics and Science Concepts [PDF]
Educational Process: International Journal, 2022 Background/purpose – Understanding gifted students’ perceptions by means of metaphors, carefully examining and interpreting them may help to guide the organization of training programs and the differentiation of educational content for gifted students ...
Duygu Özdemir, Ayşegül Kınık Topalsan
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Journal of English Studies, 1999 The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) To examine some of the notions current in the FLM (L. M. Mingorance¿s Functional Lexematic Model of semantic description) concerning lexical structure and knowledge, in the light of the cognitive paradigm; and (ii ...
Jesús M. Sánchez García
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A Review of Studies Supporting Metaphorical Embodiment [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 This paper presents a review of studies that have provided evidence supporting metaphorical embodiment. These studies are divided into three categories of behavioral, neuroimaging, and corpus studies. After summing up the findings of these studies, it is
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +5 more
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METAPHORICAL ASSOCIATIVE CARDS IN THE SITUATION OF CHOICE
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte ale Educatiei, 2018 In this paper, we propose to review the possibility of metaphorical associative cards using in the situations of choice. The value of choice, its role in the formation of the essential person’s characteristics is the topic of non-classical humanistic ...
USM ADMIN
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Metaphorical COVID-19 Concepts: A Corpus Pragmatics Study
آداب الكوفة, 2023 This paper investigates the way pragmatics and corpus linguistics can benefit from each other through tackling metaphorical language. The metaphors of COVID-19 and how they can be analyzed both qualitatively and quantitively in the realm of corpus ...
Shameem Alsalami
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