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Education SciencesContemporary issues of particular concern include the current state of the teaching profession, the lack of professional and social respect for teachers, the need for salary increases, the need to reduce the burden on teachers, and performance evaluation.
Gyöngyi Csenger
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Metaphors in the Wealth of Nations [PDF]
, 2002 This paper reconstructs the ways in which metaphors are used in the text of “The Wealth of Nations”. Its claims are: a) metaphor statements are basically similar to those in the “Theory of the Moral Sentiments”; b) the metaphors’ ‘primary subjects’ refer
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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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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Scientific iconoclasm and active imagination: synthetic cells as techo-schientific mandalas [PDF]
, 2018 Metaphors allow us to come to terms with abstract and complex information, by comparing it to something which is structured, familiar and concrete. Although modern science is “iconoclastic”, as Gaston Bachelard phrases it, scientists are at the same time
Zwart, Hub
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Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bilingualism has been associated with enhanced metalinguistic awareness (MA), the ability to reflect upon language. However, findings remain mixed, and little is known about how proficiency in the most proficient (L1) and second‐best language (L2) contribute to MA, especially in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who often present ...
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International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and MentoringIn this exploratory study we aim to understand whether metaphor plays a role in re-authoring narratives when coachees are experiencing process posttraumatic growth (PTG). Recognising the post-trauma phase of their life, nine participants who utilised the
Elfreda Manahan-Vaughan, Julia Papworth
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Owady w polskim i rosyjskim językowym obrazie świata
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2018 The paper is devoted to insects in Polish and Russian linguistic views of the world. The figurative meanings, derivational potential and semantic connotations of insects’ names, as well as idioms have been analysed to reveal the position of these animals
Katarzyna Kuligowska
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, 2011 The prevalence of colourful metaphors and figurative language in critics' descriptions of artworks has long attracted attention. Talk of ‘liquid melodies,’ ‘purple prose,’ ‘soaring arches,’ and the use of still more elaborate figurative descriptions, is ...
Grant, James
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A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
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