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Animation Metaphors for Object-Oriented Concepts
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, 2007 AbstractProgram visualization and animation has traditionally been done at the level of the programming language and its implementation in a computer. However, novices do not know these concepts and visualizations that build upon programming language implementation may easily fail in helping novices to learn programming concepts.
Jorma Sajaniemi +2 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT First Nations female sexual assault survivors in remote Northern Territory (NT) face significant barriers accessing place‐based medical care and forensic evidence collection, subsequently requiring evacuation to specialist services. Using decolonising Participatory Action Research methods, this study identified the workforce, training, and ...
Theresa Clasquin +7 more
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Notes Towards the Analysis of Metaphor
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2000 G. LAKOFF and M. JOHNSON's theory of cognitive linguistics and their definition of metaphor and metaphorical concepts have led to a variety of qualitative approaches whose common aim is to reconstruct metaphorical concepts and metaphorical reasoning in ...
Rudolf Schmitt
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Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs +3 more
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The socio-parasite and bio-parasite metaphorical concepts in racist discourse
Crossroads, 2017 Defined as the transfer of meaning from one conceptual domain to another (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Lakoff 1993), metaphors play a key role not only in the thought process, where they facilitate the understanding of complex concepts, as well as determine ...
Małgorzata Waśniewska
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A Cognitive Approach in Onomastics: Some Notes on Metaphorical Place-Names
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 In the framework of cognitive linguistics, metaphor is considered as a general cognitive mechanism that plays a fundamental role in human thinking and understanding, in the creation of our social, cultural, and psychological reality, while also impacting
Katalin Reszegi
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Metaphorical Nomination in IT Terminology in Lithuanian and English Languages [PDF]
, 2019 Metaphorical nomination is peculiar in every language, it is related to reality and world view perception, it also reveals the traits of nation mentality. However, there are universal models of metaphorical nomination. In both languages, special concepts
Celiešienė, Vilija +5 more
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Consumer Psychology Review, EarlyView.Abstract Past research suggests that people exhibit robust waste aversion. However, many consumers routinely feel that they waste not only goods but also time, money, energy, and emotion and would be hard‐pressed to imagine their lives otherwise. Why does consumer waste persist? In this paper, we first propose a definition for consumer waste.
Marissa A. Sharif, Cait Lamberton
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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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