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Conceptualizing English academic writing via verbal and manual metaphors [PDF]

Ibérica, 2009
As a powerful cognitive tool, metaphor is used in the educational setting to simplify abstract knowledge for learners. Gesture, the material carrier of thought, can represent abstract concepts in a visual mode.
Jun Zhao
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The impact of family interview on the relationship between medical students and their silent mentor

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The gross anatomy laboratory course often triggers significant negative emotions in medical students during dissection. While various pedagogical interventions aim to alleviate psychological burden, the fundamental question of how students' perceptions of donors evolve throughout the course remains underexplored.
Po‐Fang Tsai, Mei‐Fang Tseng, Ruei‐Jen Chiou   +2 more
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Review Essay: Argument is War, Love is a Journey, and Qualitative Research Needs a Pair of Glasses

Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2004
LAKOFF and JOHNSON argue that common metaphorical words imply cognitive models, which they call "metaphorical concepts." They extend the definition of metaphor beyond classical definitions.
Rudolf Schmitt
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LA LANGUE ROUMAINE DANS L’IMAGINAIRE DES LOCUTEURS NON NATIFS

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia
The Romanian Language in the Imaginary of Non-Native Speakers. Over the past five decades, since Romanian has been taught as a foreign language (RFL) in an institutional setting, the profile of non-native speakers has been shaped almost exclusively ...
Elena PLATON
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Lexical structure, lexical concepts and metaphorical concepts : the case of "change" verbs in English

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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Medical students' perspectives on body donation to science within the Italian context

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Body donation is essential for medical education and research, supporting anatomical training and clinical competence. In Italy, national data on awareness of the legislation regulating body donation and factors shaping donation‐related decisions among healthcare trainees remain limited. This study investigated knowledge of the legal framework,
Antonietta Fazio, Giulio Vara, Veronica Moretti, Annalisa Plava, Anna Maria Billi, Alessandra Ruggeri, Giulia Adalgisa Mariani, Marilisa Quaranta, Simone Lodi, Cecilia Acuti Martellucci, Maria Alessandra Sotgiu, Valentina Di Felice, Sergio Castorina, Guido Carpino, Veronica Macchi, Rita Rezzani, Mario Rende, Andrea Montella, Lucio Cocco, Lucia Manzoli, Stefano Ratti   +20 more
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Knowledgedynamics and Thermodynamics [PDF]

Informatică economică, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to present a metaphorical analysis for Knowledgedynamics using the main concepts of Thermodynamics. Following the Andriessen's method we are going to define Thermodynamics as a source domain, and Knowledgedynamics as the ...
Constantin BRATIANU
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Data, not documents: Moving beyond theories of information‐seeking behavior to advance data discovery

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 649-664, April 2025.
Abstract Many theories of human information behavior (HIB) assume that information objects are in text document format. This paper argues four important HIB theories are insufficient for describing users' search strategies for data because of assumptions about the attributes of objects that users seek.
Anthony J. Million, Jeremy York, Sara Lafia, Libby Hemphill   +3 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

The common element effect of abstract-to-abstract mapping in language processing

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Since the 1990s, there has been much discussion about how concepts are learned and processed. Many researchers believe that the experienced bodily states (i.e., embodied experiences) should be an important factor that affects concepts’ learning and use ...
Xuqian Chen, Guixiang Wang, Yuchan Liang
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