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Philosophical and Cognitive Aspects of Visual Metaphor in Political Discourse

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The postmodern doctrine of the 21st century, as well as the development of technology have changed the structure and form of the text which has increasingly acquired features of polymodality.
Ekaterina L. Kabakhidze
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The Understanding of Visual Metaphors by the Congenitally Blind

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Results from a narrow set of empirical studies suggest that blind individuals’ comprehension of metaphorical expressions does not differ from that of sighted participants.
Ricardo A. Minervino   +3 more
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PerfVis: Pervasive Visualization in Immersive AugmentedReality for Performance Awareness

open access: yes, 2019
Developers are usually unaware of the impact of code changes to the performance of software systems. Although developers can analyze the performance of a system by executing, for instance, a performance test to compare the performance of two consecutive ...
Bergel, Alexandre   +4 more
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Evaluating musical software using conceptual metaphors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
An open challenge for interaction designers is to find ways of designing software to enhance the ability of novices to perform tasks that normally require specialized domain expertise.
Holland, Simon   +2 more
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor (Visual)

open access: yes, 2020
A visual metaphor is a type of metaphor the component elements of which (generally designated topic and vehicle, or target and source) are rendered in visual terms. No unified theory of visual metaphors exists, both because scholars from various disciplines (art historians, philosophers, semiologists, linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, etc.
openaire   +3 more sources

Visual Metaphors in Pedagogical Discourse

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
A visual metaphor is an image that allows you convey the meaning that escapes during verbal representation, as well as to enhance the impact of the message. It is for this reason that visual metaphor occupies a special place in pedagogical discourse. The
Nina L. Chulkina, Victoria V. Makashova
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It is important that we speak [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
It is not easy to come to voice. It is not easy to speak your piece. But it is our mission to encourage each member of Roger Williams University community to reach enlightenment, to use the visual metaphor, or to come to voice, to use the ...
Campbell, Jennifer
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Visual Representations of Gender and Computing in Consumer and Professional Magazines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Studies in the nineteen-eighties showed that advertising images of computers were gendered, with women relatively less represented, and shown with less empowered roles, problems or presented as sexual objects.
Alexander   +32 more
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Beyond the Classroom: Cognitive and Educational Insights Into Gameplay‐Based Second Language Learning

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This pilot study investigated how the narrative‐rich Chinese AAA game Black Myth: Wukong supports advanced Mandarin learners. Using reflective journals, semi‐structured interviews, and exploratory electroencephalogram (EEG), we examined learners' cognitive, affective, and cultural experiences.
ShuPei Wang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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