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Lost in translation: The need for updated messaging strategies in invasion biology communication
Plants, People, PlanetSocietal Impact Statement As with any complex environmental challenge, information about the “invasive species problem” must be communicated effectively to generate widespread public trust, understanding, and engagement in solutions.
Rachel A. Reeb, J. Mason Heberling
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CrossroadsThis 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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E-Spania, 2022 This paper examines the structure of Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels focusing on a network of metaphors that stem from the Prologue and that connect the first and last novels in the book.
Clea Gerber
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Cultural Metaphors: Their Use in Management Practice as a Method for Understanding Cultures [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues that the dimensional perspective on culture, arguably the most important development in cross-cultural understanding in 50 years, needs to be supplemented by in-depth treatments of national cultures.
Gannon, Martin J., Martin J. Gannon
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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Unsafe AI for Education: A Conversation on Stochastic Parrots and Other Learning Metaphors ⚠️
Journal of Interactive Media in EducationThis interview article discusses the impact on popular and educational discourses of the metaphor for a Large Language Model of a “stochastic parrot”. The metaphor comes from the title of an influential paper on the harms of large language models from ...
Emily M. Bender +4 more
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Criticón, 2007 Burlesque metaphors of poetic creativity, systematically studied, are not a mere inversion of the traditional topics about inspiration, but they create a new field of meanings that explain the composition process from a more realistic point of view and ...
Ángel Luis Luján Atienza
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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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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Firefighters face an array of stressors due to the demands of their occupation, leading to a high prevalence of mental health challenges. Social prescribing represents a novel approach to healthcare that emphasizes a holistic view of health and wellbeing.
Janice Ikeda +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Motto-goals describe a desired mind-set and provide a person with a guiding principle of how to approach a personal goal or obligation (e.g., with the inner strength of a bear I am forging ahead).
Thomas H. Dyllick +2 more
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