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The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 2017 This study sets out to join a discussion which tests a number of assumptions current in the study of conceptual history. These assumptions are: Conceptual history can only be studied within a given language; concepts are articulated in abstract words ...
Rudolf Wagner
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La théâtralité académique. L’usage de la métaphore dans la recherche sociologique
Sociologie Românească, 2020 We propose to grasp conferences as an institutional ritual, which deploys a whole institutional theatricality. To do this, we use the metaphor of the orchestra; indeed each participant in the conference plays their part by adjusting to each other.
Gina Stoiciu
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Flesh of the Law: Material Metaphors [PDF]
, 2016 Existing legal metaphors, even the predominantly spatial and corporeal ones, paradoxically perpetuate a dematerialized impression of the law. This is because they depict the law as universal, adversarial, and court-based, thus ignoring alternative ...
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas
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Conceptual metaphors of sexual intercourse in Thai Yaoi fiction
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis study aimed to analyze the conceptual metaphors of sexual intercourse in Thai Yaoi fiction as well as analyze the conceptual system of Thai language users from the usage of metaphors following the Cognitive Semantics guideline.
Narongkan Rodsap, Methus Siriwat
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VLEs: A Metaphorical History from Sharks to Limpets
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020 In this paper we chart the history of selected metaphors that have been used to describe Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) over the last 15 years. Martin Weller famously claimed in 2007 that “the VLE is dead”. This provocation positioned the VLE as an
Tom Farrelly +2 more
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e-Kafkas Eğitim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Bu araştırmanın amacı öğretmen adaylarının özel gereksinimli bireylere yönelik tutumlarını ve metaforik algılarını belirlemektir. Bu amaç doğrultusunda eğitim fakültesinde okuyan öğrenciler çalışma grubu olarak belirlenmiştir.
Yunus Emre Baştuğ, Ceyhun Servi
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Competing Metaphors for International Relations [PDF]
This book examines how the thinking towards international relations of political leaders, researchers, the media and the public is fundamentally metaphorical in nature: the abstract and far away constantly made concrete and familiar through the ...
Kuusisto, Riikka
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A Guided Scratch Visual Execution Environment to Introduce Programming Concepts to CS1 Students
Information, 2021 First-year computer science (CS1) university students traditionally have difficulties understanding how to program. This paper describes research introducing CS1 students to programming concepts using a Scratch programming language guided visual ...
Raquel Hijón-Neira +3 more
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Dealing with Evaluative Expressions and Hate Speech Metaphors with Fuzzy Property Grammar Systems
Axioms, 2023 We introduce a Fuzzy Property Grammar System (FPGS), a formalism that integrates a Fuzzy Property Grammar into a linguistic grammar system to formally characterize metaphorical evaluative expressions.
Adrià Torrens-Urrutia +2 more
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Voices of discomfort: metaphorical conceptualisations of physical pain in Algerian Arabic
Frontiers in CommunicationThis study investigates the metaphorical representations of physical pain amongst Algerian Arabic speakers. To uncover these conceptualisations, an oral Discourse Completion Test (DCT) was administered to 30 Algerian university students.
Ghaleb Rababah +6 more
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