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Visualization Metaphors

Programming and Computer Software, 2001
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The “Metaphor” Metaphor

2017
Abstract This chapter revisits Gareth Morgan’s seminal book Images of Organization and considers its main thesis—that organizations have no essence, but we can bring out their features through the metaphorical lenses we see them through—in the context of pragmatist-hermeneutical philosophy.
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Metaphors of pathology

International Review of Psychiatry, 2018
The norm is familiar to us, yet it is unknown (Erwin  Straus).The question of ‘pathology’ cannot be separated from that of normality, and behind the latter is necessarily a certain idea of man—a ce...
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Migration as a metaphor for metaphor

Metaphor and the Social World, 2012
This article is concerned with migration as a metaphor for metaphor. Metaphor is generally recognised an essential tool in the promotion of public understanding of difficult subjects and this begs the question of what metaphors are available for promoting the understanding of metaphor itself.
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Metaphor as a Metaphor for Translation

2014
This chapter focuses on the different theoretical approaches developed with regard to the functioning of metaphor in an attempt to investigate the workings of translation and some of the stages translation studies has gone through. It also focuses on the meta-communicative potential of metaphor as a metaphor for translation.
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A Plea for Living Metaphors: Conflictual Metaphors and Metaphorical Swarms

Metaphor and Symbol, 2012
Now that the cognitive turn has highlighted the role of consistent and shared metaphorical concepts in human cognition and language, a comprehensive vision demands that living metaphors are paid due attention. The most typical and revealing instances of living metaphor are not poetic rewordings of shared and consistent metaphorical concepts but textual
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The Death of the Metaphor Is Not a Metaphor

<div> This essay diagnoses a silent ontological rupture in contemporary culture: the death of metaphor not as a stylistic decline but as a fundamental transformation of language itself. Metaphors have not vanished—they have been consumed by their own literality, petrifying into operational instructions and infrastructural components of the ...
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Metaphor Clusters, Metaphor Chains: Analyzing the Multifunctionality of Metaphor in Text

2003
This paper applies Halliday's (1994) theory of the interpersonal, ideational and textual meta-functions of language to conceptual metaphor. Starting from the observation that metaphoric expressions tend to be organized in chains across texts, the question is raised what functions those expressions serve in different parts of a text as well as in ...
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Magic by metaphors

Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing augmented reality environments, 2000
Most research on metaphors and computers focus on the augmentative power of the similarity between the computer application and something already familiar to the user. But metaphor may play two fundamentally different roles depending on whether the primary role of the metaphor is to express something by building on the similarity between the two ...
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Metaphoricity:

2020
Whoever has an inclination toward the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty can sense manifest and multiple ties with the question of metaphor. The study of these linkages invites an examination of the philosopher’s original manner or style of writing, especially in the late texts; it also leads to a reading of what Merleau-Ponty says explicitly about metaphor ...
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