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Zhujkova, O. V. "Artifact Metaphors as Verbal Means of Objectivization of the Concept "Language" in the Philosophical Discourse of W. von Humboldt." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, no. 3 (October 27, 2018): 177–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-3-177-186.
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The research features the metaphorical representations of the language in the individual author's worldview expressed by W. von Humboldt via artifact metaphors. The linguistic personality of the great scientist remains surprisingly understudied, so it seems important to study the language means of verbalizing the basic concepts in his philosophical discourse. The research concentrates on the verbalization of the phenomenon "Language" by means of artifact metaphors in W. von Humboldt’s "On the Difference of the Structure of Human Languages and its Influence on the Spiritual Development of Mankind" (Über die Verschiedenheit des menschlichen Sprachbaues und ihren Einfluss auf die geistige Entwicklung des Menschengeschlechts, 1836) [1]. The analysis of empirical material included the method of linguocognitive analysis, the method of component analysis based on dictionary definitions, the method of interpretative analysis of contexts, conceptual and semantic-cognitive analysis of artifact metaphors, etc. The article reveals some features of the cognitive structure of the phenomenon "Language" on the basis of artifact metaphors "language as tool" and "language as fabric". As a result of the research, the frame structure of the artifact metaphorical models of the language concept has been revealed, as well as the ontological components of the language structuring various types of slots. The basic frames "language as tool" and "language as fabric" objectify the concept "Language", represented by the metaphorical model "Artifact" in the philosophical discourse of W. van Humboldt. The "language as tool" metaphor explicates the correlation of Language with such phenomena such as Spirit, Thought, andMan.The metaphorical identification of language and instrument explores the mediatory power of language in relation to Nation and Spirit. The "language as fabric" metaphor objectifies language as a complex entity, whose relevant features are anthropological qualities dominated by intellectual and sensualistic components in the diversity of their manifestations. Individuality is one of the dominant epistemological features of the concept "Language", represented by the artifact metaphorical model in W. von Humboldt’s philosophical discourse. The study proves a high degree of metaphoricity of W.vonHumboldt's linguistic worldview as a whole. One of the important concepts in his philosophical discourse is the "character of language". The scientist metaphorically "humanizes" the language, giving it individual features inherent only to human. The character of the language emphasizes the inseparable interdependence of Spirit and Nation, in its turn, being influenced by the external (verbal) form of the language.
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Kera, Denisa Reshef. "Dining Philosophers, Byzantine Generals, and the Various Nodes, Users, and Citizens under Blockchain Rule." AETiC Special Issue on Next Generation Blockchain Architecture, Infrustracture and Applications 3, no. 5 (2019): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.33166/aetic.2019.05.001.
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Agreements, consensuses, protocols, resource-sharing, and fairness are all examples of social and political metaphors that define and shape new computational algorithms. The thought experiments and allegories about resource-sharing or agreement between nodes played a vital role in the development of "concurrent programming" (enabling processor power-sharing and process synchronization) and still later in the development of distributed computing (facilitating data access and synchronization). These paved the way for current concepts of consensus mechanisms, smart contracts, and other descriptions of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, distributed ledger, and hashgraph technologies, paradoxically reversing the relations between metaphor and artifact. New computing concepts and algorithmic processes, such as consensus mechanisms, trustless networks, and automated smart contracts or DAOs (Distributed Autonomous Organizations), aim to disrupt social contracts and political decision-making and replace economic, social, and political institutions (e.g., law, money, voting). Rather than something that needs a metaphor, algorithms are becoming the metaphor of good governance. Current fantasies of algorithmic governance exemplify this reversal of the role played by metaphors: they reduce all concepts of governance to automation and curtail opportunities for defining new computing challenges inspired by the original allegories, thought experiments, and metaphors. Especially now, when we are still learning how best to govern the transgressions and excesses of emerging distributed ledger technologies, productive relations between software and allegory, algorithms and metaphors, code and law are possible so long as they remain transitive. Against this tyranny of algorithms and technologies as metaphors and aspirational models of governance, we propose sandboxes and environments that allow stakeholders to combine prototyping with deliberation, algorithms with metaphors, codes with regulations.
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Bowden, Randall, Jesse Brock, and Phillis Bunch. "Metaphors, Nicknames, and Epithets: The Role of the Chair as a Cultural Artifact." Department Chair 31, no. 2 (2020): 14–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dch.30349.
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Яковлева, Светлана Леонидовна. "METAPHORICAL MODELS OF THE CONCEPTUAL SPHERE «GRATITUDE» IN RUSSIAN PAROEMIC DISCOURCE." Bulletin of the Chuvash State Pedagogical University named after I Y Yakovlev, no. 3(108) (October 20, 2020): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.37972/chgpu.2020.108.3.015.
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В работе путем семантического и контекстуального анализа рассматриваются русские паремические единицы, вербализующие понятийную сферу «благодарность», отобранные из сборника пословиц В. И. Даля. Актуальность исследования обусловлена важностью рассматриваемого фрагмента паремического дискурса для выявления характерных черт и особенностей базовых концептов русской лингвокультуры. Формирование данного чувства способствует развитию социальной эмпатии, построению нравственных и ценностных ориентиров членов сообщества. Анализ феномена благодарности, отраженного в архаичном сознании русского народа, позволяет проследить его трансформацию в социуме. В работе рассматриваются некоторые философские и психологические основания феномена «благодарность», основные субсферы метафоризации, базовые метафорические модели, их фреймовые структуры и слоты. Были выявлены метафорические модели субсфер «человек», «природа», «артефакты», «социум». Субсфера «человек» репрезентируется метафорическими моделями «Благодарность - человеческий организм», «Благодарность - действия человека». Метафорические модели субсферы «природа» представлены миром животных, миром растений и небесными телами. Метафорические модели субсферы «социум» содержат слоты, связанные с религией и пенитенциарными учреждениями. Субсфера «артефакты» репрезентируется фреймами «еда и напитки», «одежда», «деньги», «ткани», «инструменты» и некоторыми другими. Самой значительной по количеству является группа антропоморфных метафор, насчитывающая 38 единиц (41,8 %); группа артефактных метафор включает 31 единицу (34 %); природоморфные метафоры составляют 14 единиц (15,4 %) и группа социоморфных метафор представлена 8 единицами (8,8 %). The article considers the semantic and contextual analysis of Russian paroemic units verbalizing a conceptual sphere Gratitude. The units were selected from the book of proverbs by V. Dahl. This conceptual sphere is important to reveal characteristic features of basic concepts in Russian linguoculture. The formation of this feeling and emotion contributes to the development of social empathy, creation of moral values in society. The analysis of the phenomenon of gratitude reflected in the archaic consciousness of Russian people helps to observe its transformation in social continuum. The article considers some philosophical and psychological aspects of gratitude in Russian archaic consciousness, basic metaphorization subspheres, their frame structures and slots; reveals metaphorical models of subspheres Man, Nature, Artifact, Socium. The subsphere Man is represented by the metaphorical models Human Body and Actions Performed by Man. Metaphorical models of the subsphere Nature contain Flora World, Fauna World and Celestial Bodies. Frame structures of the subsphere Socium are verbalized by the slots connected with religion and penitentiary institutions. The subsphere Artifacts is represented by the models Food and Drinks, Clothes, Money, Fabrics, Instruments. The group of anthropomorphical metaphors is the largest one containing 38 units (41,8 %); the second one is the group of artifact metaphors with 31 units (34 %); the third place is taken by phytomorphical metaphors - 14 units (15,4 %) and sociomorphical group is the last one with 8 units (8,8 %).
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Poveda, David, Mitsuko Matsumoto, Marta Morgade, and Esperanza Alonso. "Photographs as a Research Tool in Child Studies: Some Analytical Metaphors and Choices." Qualitative Research in Education 7, no. 2 (2018): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.17583/qre.2018.3350.
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This methodological paper discusses how photographs can be used in multi-layered data projects with children and families. We present photographs as a versatile low-fi digital artifact that can be used under a variety of research circumstances and critically discuss this particular visual tool in the context of the growing body of visual and multimodal research with children and families. The critical discussion draws on a series of research projects in which we have employed photographs (topics of the projects include family diversity or children's routines). The comparisons between projects highlights some of the procedural and analytical choices that are opened up when using photographs. In particular, we focus on two issues: (a) differences that emerge when materials are created by participants or are elicited by researchers, and; (b) the metaphors that are applied to interpret and work with photographs.
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Borodina, N. A. "Figurative Means of Representing the Milky Way in Russian Fiction of XIX — Early XXI Centuries." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 3 (March 27, 2021): 42–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-3-42-56.
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This article is an analysis of the linguistic means of figurative representation of the Milky Way in the prose works of Russian authors of the XIX — early XXI centuries. It is established that the basis for the creation of metaphorical models, in which the astroobject Milky Way is one of the components, are the similarity of external outlines, parametric indicators, the identity of light and structural characteristics, while the attraction of only perceptual signs significantly limits the possibilities for comparison. It is shown that the length of the stellar system determines its metaphorical representation as a water body, road, fabric or fiber, a bridge or its component part, an arc, a parabola, a fraction, a procession, a lane, a belt, a ski track, spilled milk, a tail. It is noted that the relative position of the celestial bodies that form the Milky Way leads to its assimilation to fog, cloud, smoke or dust; the luminosity of the stars entering the galaxy resembles the brilliance of silver and gold, and their large number is emphasized by the metaphor “Milky Way — many small objects or particles”. The author comes to the conclusion that the images that arise during the metaphorization of an astroobject differ in the frequency of use, while hydronymic, meteorological, artifact metaphors, as well as the metaphor of a path-road, are productive.
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Dymova, A. V., and A. I. Zolotaiko. "CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COLOUR BLUE METAPHORIZATION AT THE VERBAL LEVEL OF AMERICAN INTERNET AND ROCK DISCOURSE." Bulletin of Udmurt University. Series History and Philology 30, no. 2 (2020): 244–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-2-244-250.
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The article in question deals with the functional features of the lexeme blue at the verbal level of American Internet and rock discourse with specific peculiarities and characteristics. The analysis of the contexts of the spheres of the specified linguistic cultures and the deployment direction of metaphors representing the color blue in the period from 2014 to the present is carried out. The authors highlight the conceptual components in relation to blue (institutional nominations, emotional state, morbial state, artifact-related nominations) and through a series of examples illustrate the variety of interpretations of the color under study. Thus, the selection of material was carried out by the method of continuous sampling from various and numerous contexts of the verbal level of the discourses under consideration. Based on the analysis of the identified uses of the lexeme blue , the intersection of the conceptual spheres with a bipolar connotation is established in relation to the representation of the police, morbial and emotional state. The similarities and differences in the functioning of blue are illustrated by means of a series of examples. The productivity and frequency of metaphors of the color blue, their significance and presence in the linguistic system are noted.
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Michael, Mike. "Roadkill: Between Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Technologies." Society & Animals 12, no. 4 (2004): 277–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568530043068038.
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AbstractThis paper has two broad objectives. First, the paper aims to treat roadkill as a topic of serious social scientific inquiry by addressing it as a cultural artifact through which various identities are played out. Thus, the paper shows how the idea of roadkill-as-food mediates contradictions and ironies in American identities concerned with hunting, technology, and relationships to nature. At a second, more abstract, level, the paper deploys the example of roadkill to suggest a par ticular approach to theorizing broader relationships between humans, nonhuman animals, and technology. This paper draws on recent developments in science and technology studies, in particular, the work of Latour (1993) and Serres (1982,1985), to derive a number of prepositional metaphors. The paper puts these forward tentatively as useful tools for exploring and unpicking some of the complex connections and heterogeneous relationalities between humans, animals, and the technology from which roadkill emerges.
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O’Meara, Carolyn, and Asifa Majid. "Anger stinks in Seri: Olfactory metaphor in a lesser-described language." Cognitive Linguistics 31, no. 3 (2020): 367–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2017-0100.
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AbstractPrevious studies claim there are few olfactory metaphors cross-linguistically, especially compared to metaphors originating in the visual and auditory domains. We show olfaction can be a source for metaphor and metonymy in a lesser-described language that has rich lexical resources for talking about odors. In Seri, an isolate language of Mexico spoken by indigenous hunter-gatherers, we find a novel metaphor for emotion never previously described – “anger stinks”. In addition, distinct odor verbs are used metaphorically to distinguish volitional vs. non-volitional states-of-affairs. Finally, there is ample olfactory metonymy in Seri, especially prevalent in names for plants, but also found in names for insects and artifacts. This calls for a re-examination of better-known languages for the overlooked role olfaction may play in metaphor and metonymy. The Seri language illustrates how valuable data from understudied languages can be in highlighting novel ways by which people conceptualize themselves and their world.
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Day, Matthew. "Reading the Fossils of Faith: Thomas Henry Huxley and the Evolutionary Subtext of the Synoptic Problem." Church History 74, no. 3 (2005): 534–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700110807.
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In a book loaded with metaphors of assault and retaliation, Andrew Dickson White's A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom saved one of the best for Darwin. “Darwin's Origin of Species,” we are told, came “into the theological world like a plough into an ant-hill. Everywhere those thus rudely awakened from their old comfort and repose had swarmed forth angry and confused.” For White, the sometimes frenzied post-Darwinian controversies over providential design and divine creation were simply the latest episodes in an all-out struggle between theology and science that stretched back beyond Galileo's cheerless encounters with the Catholic Church. Though the voices may have been different, the song remained the same. Despite its continuing presence in the popular media, contemporary historians of religion and science now regard White's warfare thesis as an artifact of the constantly shifting relationships between these two cultural fields rather than a viable analysis of their engagement. The fundamental problem with the conflict model is that it is a bit like performing heart surgery with a Phillips head screwdriver: it is simply too blunt of an instrument for getting at the all-too-crucial particulars. As a result, it is likely to do more harm than good. To see why, consider what James Moore has called the “religious filiation” of Charles Darwin's evolutionary thought.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "ARTIFACT METAPHORS"
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Киреева, А. А., та A. A. Kireeva. "Когнитивная метафора в дипломатическом дискурсе (на примере речи Марии Захаровой) : магистерская диссертация". Master's thesis, б. и, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10995/94626.
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Выпускная квалификационная работа посвящена изучению когнитивных метафор в дипломатическом дискурсе. Данный феномен рассматривается на примере речи официального представителя Министерства Иностранных Дел Российской Федерации Марии Захаровой. Теоретическая глава содержит описание дипломатического дискурса как феномена, смежного с другими дискурсами (политическим, масс-медийным, военным, юридическим), а также перечисление лингвистических особенностей дипломатических текстов. Автором также представлены основные положения теории концептуальной метафоры. В практической части исследование проведен лингвокогнитивный анализ метафор в речи российского дипломата Марии Захаровой. Выделены разные типы социоморфных, ориентационных, антропоморфных, артефактных метафор, которые получают когнитивную и лингвоаксиологическую интерпретацию. Выявлены наиболее частотные метафорические модели (метафоры искусства, войны, пути).<br>The final qualifying work is devoted to the study of cognitive metaphors in diplomatic discourse. This phenomenon is considered on the example of the speech of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. The theoretical chapter contains a description of diplomatic discourse as a phenomenon related to other discourses (political, mass media, military, legal), as well as a list of linguistic features of diplomatic texts. The author also presents the main provisions of the theory of conceptual metaphor. A linguocognitive analysis of metaphors in the speech of Russian diplomat Maria Zakharova was conducted in the practical part of the study. Different types of sociomorphic, orientational, anthropomorphic, and artifact metaphors are identified. They receive cognitive and linguo-axiological interpretation. The most frequent metaphorical model revealed (metaphors of the art, metaphors of war, metaphors of the way).
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Ahlström, Catharina, and Kristina Fridensköld. "How to support and enhance communication : in a student software development project." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för arbetsvetenskap och medieteknik, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1624.
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This report, in which we have put an emphasis on the word communication, is based on a student software development project conducted during spring 2002. We describe how the use of design tools plays a key role in supporting communication in group activities and to what extent communication can be supported and enhanced by tools such as mock-ups and metaphors in a group project. We also describe a design progress from initial sketches to a final mock-up of a GUI for a postcard demo application.<br>I denna rapport, som baserar sig på ett studentprojekt utfört under våren 2002, har vi fokuserat på ordet kommunikation. Vi beskriver hur användande av designverktyg kan spela en nyckelroll när det gäller att stöda kommunikation i gruppaktiviteter och i vilken utsträckning kommunikation kan stödas och förstärkas av verktyg som mockuper och metaforer. Vi beskriver också en designprogress från initiala skisser till färdig mockup av ett grafiskt användargränssnitt för en demoapplikation av en vykortstjänst.
Books on the topic "ARTIFACT METAPHORS"
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Moran, Richard. Artifice and Persuasion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190633776.003.0003.
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Aristotle is the first philosopher to give sustained attention to metaphor, and this paper is a close reading of the discussion of metaphor his Rhetoric. Aristotle’s remarks on metaphor combine a traditional philosophical mistrust of metaphor and an appreciation of its indispensability in the context of public argument and persuasion. The discussion concentrates on two related questions. First, in the context of persuasion, how should we understand Aristotle’s insistence that successful metaphor achieves its effect in part by “setting something before the eyes” of its audience? And second, why is it thought important to the persuasive effect of a good metaphor that its artfulness or artifice be concealed from its audience? The paper seeks to understand together the role of the imagistic in thinking about metaphor and the idea of “the art that conceals art.”
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Graves, Margaret S. Material Metaphors. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695910.003.0005.
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Tracing parallels between material and verbal poetics, this chapter makes particular reference to changing conceptions of metaphor and imagery during the florescence of medieval Arabic literary theory. It uses textual sources as well as artifacts to demonstrate the intertwining of verbal, visual, and material realms. The first section expands an allegorical framework in medieval Arabic and Persian literary criticism that aligns poetry with manual crafts. Following this, two discrete groups of objects in the form of domed buildings are contextualized and considered as materialized metaphors. First, cast-metal incense burners of the eighth or ninth centuries are placed into an expanded context of eastern Mediterranean portable arts and architectural components. The second group, lanterns from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, reflect a later period when the central-plan domed monument had been fully assimilated into Islamic architectural practice as a standard form of commemorative architecture.
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Phelan, Helen. Borrowed Belonging. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190672225.003.0002.
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Chapter 1 commences with a discussion of the changing cultural and social landscape of Ireland at the turn of the century, particularly in the context of religion and migration. It explores two ritual case studies based on fieldwork with a Russian Orthodox and Nigerian Pentecostal ritual community in Limerick city, Ireland. It looks at the characteristic of resonance through an examination of the relationship between sound and space. In the face of ritual “absences” often experienced by migrant communities unable to ritualize in their own space or with ritually specific artifacts or vestments, singing is shown to exhibit a compensatory ritual “authority.” Through the metaphor of pilgrimage, it examines how new migrant communities are contributing to a reimagining of traditional Irish Catholicism as a more inclusive space of belonging.
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Holberton, Edward. Empire and Natural Law in Dryden’s Heroic Drama. Edited by Lorna Hutson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660889.013.43.
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Dryden’s early heroic plays find dramatic potential in early modern natural law debates about sovereignty, and explore the language of contract central to these debates. The Indian Emperour interrogates the context of Spain’s claims to empire in the new world, reflecting the historical moment of England’s growing colonial ambitions. The Conquest of Granada shows how natural law’s metaphors of contract can destabilize an empire from within, as Dryden’s hero Almanzor employs them to contest and divide. Almanzor’s claims connect to an earlier critical exchange between Davenant and Hobbes on the cultural influence of epic romance and theatre in relation to political instability. Dryden’s play, however, works to redeem romance from its association with the misinterpretation of passion and interest in Hobbes’s writing. In The Conquest of Granada, romance and theatre become part of the process of refined law-making, providing a culture of propriety and discrimination which supports the artifice of empire.
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Csabi, Szilvia, ed. Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190457747.001.0001.
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Expressive Minds and Artistic Creations: Studies in Cognitive Poetics presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research papers describing new developments in the field of cognitive poetics. The chapters examine the complex connections between cognition and poetics with special attention given to how people both create and interpret novel artistic works in a variety of expressive media, including literature, music, art, and multimodal artifacts. The authors have diverse disciplinary backgrounds, but all of them embrace theories and research findings from multiple perspectives, such as linguistics, psychology, literary studies, music, art, neuroscience, and media studies. Several authors explicitly discuss empirical and theoretical challenges in doing interdisciplinary work, which many believe is essential to future progress in cognitive poetics. Scholars address many specific research questions in their chapters, such as, most notably, the role of embodiment and simulation in human imagination, the importance of conceptual metaphors and conceptual blending processes in the creation and interpretation of literature, and the function of multiperspectivity in poetic and multimodal texts. Several new ideas are also advanced in the volume regarding the cognitive mechanisms responsible for artistic creations and understandings. The volume overall offers an expanded view of cognitive poetics research that situates the study of expressive minds within a broader range of personal, social, cultural, and historical contexts. Among other leading researchers, contributors include world-famous scholars of psychology, linguistics, and literature—Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., Zoltásn Kövecses, and Reuven Tsur—whose defining papers also survey the roles and significance of conceptual mechanisms in literature.
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UUelcome Matte©: Déltos from Link Starbureiy: an exercise of imagination, creativity, and wonder. The Link Egglepple Starbureiy Museum, 2010.
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Markus, Gyorgy. "The End of a Metaphor: The Base and the Superstructure." In Artifacts, Representations and Social Practice. Springer Netherlands, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0902-4_25.
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Naidoo, Rennie, and Awie Leonard. "A Fluid Metaphor to Theorize IT Artifacts." In Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6126-4.ch004.
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This chapter extends existing metaphors used to conceptualise the unique features of contemporary IT artifacts. Some of these artifacts are innately complex, and current conceptualisations dominated by a “black box” metaphor seem to be too limited to further advance theory and offer practical design prescriptions. Using empirical material drawn from a longitudinal case study of an Internet-based self-service technology implementation, this chapter analyses various aspects of an artifact's fluidity. Post-actor network theory concepts are used to analyse the artifact's varying identities, its vague boundaries, its unexpected usage patterns, and its resourceful designers. The successes and failures of the artifact, its complex and elusive relations, and the unintended ways user practices emerged, are also analysed. This chapter contributes by extending orthodox metaphors that overemphasise a stable and enduring IT artifact—metaphors that conceal the increasingly unpredictable and transitory nature of IT artifacts—with the distinctive characteristics of fluidity. Several prescriptions for the design and management of fluid IT artifacts are offered.
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Wang, Kevin Y. "Mixing Metaphors." In Virtual Community Participation and Motivation. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0312-7.ch001.
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This chapter explores the theoretical and conceptual assumptions underlying the notion of virtual community. Drawing from relevant literature, the author first examines the fundamental properties of the Internet as both technological and cultural artifact and argues that the Internet can embody different technological, functional, and symbolic meanings that will have direct implications for how communities are formed and experienced. Building on that framework, the second part of the chapter focuses on the sociological and psychological bases of community and explores how such conceptions change with the emergence of the Internet. The author concludes that studies of virtual communities must be contextualized according to historical and existing patterns of social life and offers a discussion on new challenges and questions facing mass communications research in this increasingly interdisciplinary area.
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Wang, Kevin Y. "Mixing Metaphors." In Cross-Cultural Interaction. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4979-8.ch008.
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This chapter explores the theoretical and conceptual assumptions underlying the notion of virtual community. Drawing from relevant literature, the author first examines the fundamental properties of the Internet as both technological and cultural artifact and argues that the Internet can embody different technological, functional, and symbolic meanings that will have direct implications for how communities are formed and experienced. Building on that framework, the second part of the chapter focuses on the sociological and psychological bases of community and explores how such conceptions change with the emergence of the Internet. The author concludes that studies of virtual communities must be contextualized according to historical and existing patterns of social life and offers a discussion on new challenges and questions facing mass communications research in this increasingly interdisciplinary area.
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"4. Thinking in Metaphors." In Artifacts of Thinking. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780823272204-005.
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Davis, L. Johnson. "Liminal Learning." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2101-3.ch003.
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Current educational systems have been built around the faulty metaphor of industry in which human learning is equated to machine learning or learning that is computational, linear, and void of meaning. This metaphor has been extended to how digital systems and spaces are utilized in the classroom. Recent research and conceptual frameworks built upon human learning from a metaphoric mind perspective (learning built upon meaning making and experiential connections within a social matrix), may work toward recontextualizing the use of digital technologies as methods for understanding individual experience and documenting human learning at work. A novel conceptual framework describes the digital space as a liminal learning space in which the learner enters to co-construct meaning within a social matrix, which may be evidenced by current digital artifacts. Implications for contextualizing digital technologies as liminal learning spaces are explored.
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Jahns, Veit. "The Metaphorical Foundation of Interoperability Artifacts." In Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0146-8.ch011.
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In this chapter, artifacts designed to facilitate the semantic interoperability between Information Systems are discussed in relation to the so-called metaphor theory. The main assumption of this theory is that the conceptualization of the world is mainly a metaphorical one; i.e., the concepts of a given domain are conceptualized by concepts of a more concrete domain. Based on this theory, selected interoperability artifacts for the modeling and describing public services are discussed and analyzed. In particular, it will be demonstrated how the conceptual metaphor can be used to get a better understanding of the domain the interoperability artifacts are designed for.
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Beekhuyzen, Jenine. "Metaphorically Speaking, Does Culture Matter?" In Qualitative Case Studies on Implementation of Enterprise Wide Systems. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-447-7.ch007.
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This chapter is a qualitative research case study discussing the use of metaphors to analyze the organizational culture of a university department involved in a Human Resources Academic Administration Information Systems Implementation. The new system is part of a larger university-wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation. Current literature suggests that organizational culture is impacted by information systems implementation and it is argued that the impact of the enterprise systems can result in a major cultural transformation that resets organizational values, meanings and beliefs. The metaphor of “organizations as cultures” is used to enable a better understanding of the department’s culture and the staff’s cultural attitudes toward the newly implemented ERP system. This investigation indicated that as a result of the implementation, the culture within the department did need to change to accommodate the new system and this is reflected through culturally symbolic artifacts, roles, values and beliefs (see Beekhuyzen, 2001 for more discussion of these topics). The metaphorical analysis of these culturally symbolic elements is presented in this chapter.
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Sherin, Bruce, Brian J. Reiser, and Daniel Edelson. "Scaffolding Analysis: Extending the Scaffolding Metaphor to Learning Artifacts." In The Journal of the Learning Sciences. Psychology Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203764411-5.
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Landemore, Hélène. "Democracy as a Gamble Worth Taking." In Democratic Reason. Princeton University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691155654.003.0009.
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This concluding chapter returns to the metaphor of the maze and the masses introduced in the first chapter and addresses a few concerns about the possibility of democratic “unreason.” Introducing the dimension of time and reflection over time, the chapter suggests, first, that democracies can learn from their mistakes and, second, that certain democratic institutions and norms serve as cognitive artifacts that help the people control for or correct their potential cognitive failures. Those cognitive artifacts at the level of society include institutions and norms that embody the collective intelligence of the people distributed across both space and time. Democratic reason thus includes the wisdom of the past “many” crystallized into social cognitive artifacts that help reduce democratic unreason. Because of the synchronic and diachronic collective intelligence tapped by democratic institutions, democracy, this chapter concludes, is a gamble worth taking.
Conference papers on the topic "ARTIFACT METAPHORS"
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Zeitz, Kimberly, Rebecca Zeitz, Congwu Tao, and Nicholas Polys. "Poster: A comparative study of metaphors for investigating augmented reality artifacts." In 2014 IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/3dui.2014.6798879.
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