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Metaphor as a focal concept in sound design

Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound, 2014
A central challenge in the design of non-speech sounds is to understand the relating conceptualisation process. In the current paper, we propose the use of metaphor theories as a framework to understand what sound design is fundamentally all about. In the proposed framework, we handle metaphors as conceptual entities, which are the basic constituents ...
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The Detour of Metaphor: Metaphor, Concept, and Strategy in Althusser and Derrida

Derrida Today, 2022
Following some of the main arguments Derrida develops in ‘White Mythology’, in this article I propose an unexplored dialogue between Derrida and Althusser considering the use and the place that each of them gives to metaphor in their philosophical strategies. I give special attention to some rather isolated passages of ‘Elements of Self-Criticism’ and ‘
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‘Suturing’ as a Concept-Metaphor

Parallax, 2011
As she concludes her chapter ‘Righting Wrongs’ in Other Asias, Gayatri Spivak writes that she ‘will ask her New York students what concept-metaphor’ served them best.1 I am not writing now as a cur...
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Chinese and Western Conceptions of Metaphor

2021
This chapter probes into the controversy surrounding Chinese metaphor and poetics, and seeks answers to these questions: Is the Western conception of metaphor universal to all cultures? In the comparative study of Chinese and Western poetics, is the Western metaphor alien to the Chinese tradition?
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Laziness as Concept-Metaphor

2019
The chapter explores what laziness has meant for philosophers, especially those few who chose to address it directly, and provides a conceptual frame for the laziness metaphor. Philosophical inquiries into unproductive idling are rare, but in each instance they center around the issues of the body and resistance.
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A psychoanalytic concept of metaphor.

The International journal of psycho-analysis, 1999
Metaphor is defined as seeing something in terms of something else. Psychoanalysis sees the present in terms of the past and the past in terms of the present. It therefore relates past and present metaphorically to each other, which implies that both metaphor parts change each other.
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A mere metaphor? Framings of the concept of metaphor in biological specialist communication

2015
This chapter presents a discourse analytical study of explicit reference to theconcept of metaphor within a broad range of biological disciplines. The aim ofthe analysis was to study in what capacity the term ‘metaphor’ was conceptualizedand framed in actual scientific research writing, and whether the differentframings were related to the specific ...
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP: METAPHORS AND RELATED CONCEPTS

Journal of Enterprising Culture, 1998
In past research there has been continuous controversy over the definition of entrepreneurship and the identification of entrepreneurs. By combining the ideas of entrepreneurship and linguistics, this paper takes a different approach to examining entrepreneurial definitions.
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Ad Hoc Concepts and Metaphor

2010
In this chapter I discuss the account of metaphor proposed by Robyn Carston in chapter 5 of her book Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication (2002). This account is based on two theses: T1: The processes of broadening and narrowing are complementary and their effects contribute to the determination of the content of the ...
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Upright/skew metaphorical associations of moral concepts and their effects on face recognition

Current Psychology, 2022
Ge Xu, Yiduo Ye, Xu Ge
exaly