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Reasoning on Figurative Language: A Preliminary Study on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Klinefelter Syndrome

Brain Sciences, 2019
In this study we explored metaphor and idiom competencies in two clinical populations, children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with Klinefelter syndrome (KS), (age range: 9–12), compared to typically developing (TD) children of ...
Sergio Melogno, Maria Antonietta Pinto, Teresa Gloria Scalisi, Margherita Orsolini, Luigi Tarani, Gloria Di Filippo   +5 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Framing narratives: media representation of metaphors and ideologies in Israel-Palestine conflict

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict employed metaphors to frame ideological narratives, attitudes, and perceptions. The study scrutinized metaphorical framing in the news discourse from October 7, 2023, to April 30, 2024, from the perspective
Sidra Iqbal, Ammara Farukh
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Culturally Safe Assistive Technology Provision in Australia: Concept Mapping Perspectives From Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disparities in Assistive Technology (AT) access exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite recent policy reforms. This paper brings together First Nations and Western academic ways of being, knowing and doing to deliver an AT practice analysis based upon primary data from two research reports into the cultural safety of AT
Shane Hearn, Vanessa Langenberg, Kristy Harper, Libby Callaway, Hilary O'Connell, Eleanor Kennett‐Smith, Natasha Layton   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Pain as metaphor: metaphor and medicine [PDF]

Medical Humanities, 2015
Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind?
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T. rex cognition was T. rex‐like—A critical outlook on diverging views of the neurocognitive evolution in dinosaurs

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract A recent debate has emerged between Caspar et al. (2024) and Herculano‐Houzel (2023) on inferring extinct dinosaur cognition by estimating brain neuron counts. While thought‐provoking, the discussion largely overlooks the function of cognition, as well as partly neglects the difficulties involved in estimating neuron numbers, which according ...
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen, Ivo Jacobs, Kristina Kverková, Lona Lalić, Alexandra Polonyiová, Patrik Stehlík, Stephan A. Reber, Mathias Osvath   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Öğretmen Adayı Öğrencilerin Psikolojik Danışman İlişkin Metaforik Algılarının İncelenmesi

Sakarya Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 2014
Bu araştırmanın temel amacı öğretmen adaylarının psikolojik danışmana ilişkin algıların incelenmesi olarak belirlenmiştir. Bu araştırmada nitel yöntem kapsamında metafor analizi uygulanmıştır Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2012-2013 öğretim yılında ...
Ayşin Aydınay Satan
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Depicting and tackling the waste problem: An (eco)stylistic study of Rob Greenfield’s “I wore all my trash for 30 days” TEDx Talk

Crossroads
This paper analyses the way the waste problem is depicted in Robin “Rob” Greenfield’s TEDx Talk “I wore all my trash for 30 days.” It first explains the chosen framework – critical stylistics and conceptual metaphor theory – to conduct the analysis ...
Florence Floquet
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Analogous: Digital / Analogue Metaphors. [PDF]

, 2011
When discussing our understanding of the world, the term ‘analogue’ has become shorthand for anything not digital, and has become an analogy of its own. ‘Digital’ has also become an analogy for anything requiring a computer.
Carpenter, Ele
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