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Metáforas en Lengua de Señas Chilena Metaphors in Chilean Sign Language

Psykhe, 2008
Este estudio describe las características del lenguaje metafórico de personas sordas chilenas y su impacto en la comprensión lingüística. La relevancia de esta pregunta radica en la escasez de investigaciones realizadas, particularmente a nivel nacional.
Carolina Becerra
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Metaphors and Problematizations. Notes for a Research Programme on New Materialism

Tecnoscienza, 2015
The “ontological turn” in social theory is a major intellectual wave of recent years. Focusing on feminist new materialism, the paper outlines elements for a research programme on this topic.
Luigi Pellizzoni
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Ironing the Bugs Out : Mixed Metaphors [PDF]

, 2001
The mixed metaphor has long been vilified by language lovers. After all, a metaphor per se is often a stretch. The attempt to combine two or more vastly dissimilar figures of speech usually result in a jarring incongruity and an absurd image.
Hauptman, Don
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Metaphor and Metaphoric Style in Aristotle

Turcology Research, 2022
In most studies conducted in Turkish, all three “metaphors,” “istiara” and “eğretileme” are considered as synonyms.Although it is known that these concepts are not the same by the experts who have knowledge ofthe subject, the attitude that they are synonymous persists.
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Consumer Adoption of Internet of Things

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 673-693, March 2025.
ABSTRACT The Internet of Things (IoT), a pivotal technology in enhancing user connectivity, faces a paradox: its widespread potential yet limited consumer adoption. This study addresses this dichotomy by synthesizing a large‐scale meta‐analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) and hierarchical linear meta‐analysis (HiLMA) of 2736 effect sizes from ...
Wagner Junior Ladeira, Weng Marc Lim, Fernando de Oliveira Santini, Tareq Rasul, Bernardo Frantz, Jean Carlos de Oliveira Rosa, Mohd Azhar   +6 more
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Metaphors of a conflicted self in the journals of Sylvia Plath [PDF]

, 2010
This paper presents some of the results of a study that aims to investigate how mental states can be conveyed linguistically in texts of a personal nature.
Demjén, Zsófia
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Energy Landscapes in Chemical Reactions and Transport

ChemPhysChem, Volume 26, Issue 6, March 15, 2025.
Kinetics/dynamics of chemical reactivity and transport of chemical species in a solid are both determined by the energy landscape in which they take place. Discussing common grounds but also distinct differences may help in advancing the understanding in both fields.
Karl‐Michael Weitzel
wiley   +1 more source

Sensemaking and CSR Character in Multinational Corporations: A Comparative Study of Headquarters and Subsidiary Practices in the UAE

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship assumes that organizational consistency signals effectiveness, there remains a knowledge gap about how MNCs navigate competing institutional logics between headquarters and subsidiaries. This study investigates how managerial sensemaking mediates the effects of institutional pressures on ...
Charles Antony Diab, Wendy Stubbs
wiley   +1 more source

Quelle IA générative dans l’enseignement supérieur ?

Distances et Médiations des Savoirs
This text reports on a selection and analysis of workshops and presentations related to generative AI in education at the SITE (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education) conference, held in Florida in March 2025. Learning to interact with
Eric Bruillard
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What is cultural planning? [PDF]

, 2008
What is cultural planning about? As always, metaphors secretly direct and limit what we are able to think and formulate. One can, roughly, distinguish between metaphors taken from the mechanical and taken from the organically.
Verschaffel, Bart
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