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Journal articles on the topic "Metaphors. eng"
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Engström, Robin. "The body politic of independent Scotland." Metaphor and the Social World 8, no. 2 (2018): 184–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/msw.17009.eng.
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Abstract The creation of national personifications is a political act that informs us about ideological and cognitive strategies underpinning nation-building. Many European nations are associated with national personifications, but Scotland stands out by not having a tradition of representing the nation in this way. The 2014 independence referendum began to change that, and national personifications featured, not only in the main pro-independence campaign material, but in the visual profile of many new, radical organizations. These personifications also raise questions about the use of metaphor in political discourse. By combining multimodal metaphor and metonymy analysis with interviews with artists who have designed Scottish personifications for the independence movement, this article investigates how new Scottish body politic metaphors were constructed during the campaign. This methodology increases our understanding of the wider context of the referendum, and aids the interpretation of national personifications by providing arguments for interpretation. The analysis shows that body politic metaphors used in the campaign draw on traditional Scottish symbols, but traditional body politic metaphor types are subverted, typically concerning gender roles, in order to convey messages that are relevant in a contemporary political landscape.
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Sweetser, Eve, and Karen Sullivan. "Minimalist metaphors." English Text Construction 5, no. 2 (2012): 153–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.5.2.01swe.
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We suggest that the impact of metaphoric language does not depend entirely on the conceptual metaphor that is evoked, nor on the form the metaphoric language takes, but also on the steps involved in evoking a given metaphor. This is especially apparent in minimalist poetry. Readers are given hints, cultural conventions, or no guidance at all, on how to fill in missing metaphoric domains and mappings. We place minimalist metaphors at the “effortful” end of the cline proposed by Stockwell (1992), and suggest that the other end can be associated with maximalist metaphors, which corral the reader into a highly specific interpretation. The degree of minimalism or maximalism depends on the specific mappings that are linguistically indicated, the degree of conventionalization of the metaphor, and reliance on cultural background knowledge.
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Bulkens, M., C. Minca, and H. Muzaini. "Sight lines, sight areas and unbroken open spaces? More-than-representational conceptualisations in Dutch landscape planning." Geographica Helvetica 70, no. 3 (2015): 239–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gh-70-239-2015.
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Abstract. Drawing on the case study of the Wageningse Eng, the Netherlands, this paper examines a set of spatial metaphors (and their attendant grounded impacts) employed within two key policy documents – the allocation plan and a related map – pertaining to how the cultural landscape is to be spatially managed and developed by the municipality. Although promoted as being based on historical facts and a cornerstone of Dutch commitment to participatory planning, the case being studied reveals the ways in which these metaphors are at times not only entirely subjective and arbitrary, but also perceived by residents and users as neglecting their rights with respect to the landscape and as instruments constraining what can or cannot be done in that area. More broadly, in the face of calls for more non-representational approaches to landscape analysis, the paper shows the continued salience of representational practices within spatial planning and how these may hold very material implications for landscapes.
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DUFFY, SARAH E., and VYVYAN EVANS. "The top trumps of time: factors motivating the resolution of temporal ambiguity." Language and Cognition 9, no. 2 (2016): 293–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.8.
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abstractWhat factors motivate our understanding of metaphoric statements about time? English exhibits two deictic space–time metaphors: the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the ego as moving forward through time, while the Moving Time metaphor conceptualizes time as moving forward towards the ego (Clark, 1973). In addition to earlier research investigating spatial influences on temporal reasoning (e.g., Boroditsky & Ramscar, 2002), recent lines of research have provided evidence that a complex of factors, such as personality differences, event valence, lifestyle, and emotional experiences, may also influence people’s perspectives on the movement of events in time – providing new insights on metaphor and its ability to reflect thought and feeling (e.g., Duffy & Feist, 2014; Duffy, Feist, & McCarthy, 2014; Margolies & Crawford, 2008; Richmond, Wilson, & Zinken, 2012). Probing these findings further, two studies were conducted to investigate whether the interpretation of a temporally ambiguous question may arise from an interaction between the valence of the event and aspects of the personality (Experiment 1) and lifestyle (Experiment 2) of the comprehender. The findings we report on shed further light on the complex nature of temporal reasoning. While this involves conceptual metaphor, it also invokes more complex temporal frames of reference (t-FoRs) (Evans, 2013), which are only partially subserved by space-to-time conceptual metaphors.
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Vries, Clarissa de, W. Gudrun Reijnierse, and Roel M. Willems. "Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading." Empirical Studies of Literariness 8, no. 1 (2018): 135–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ssol.18008.vri.
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Abstract Metaphors occur frequently in literary texts. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT; e.g., Steen, 2017) proposes that metaphors that serve a communicative function as metaphor are radically different from metaphors that do not have this function. We investigated differences in processing between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphors, compared to non-metaphorical words in literary reading. Using the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (Reijnierse et al., 2018), we identified metaphors in two literary stories. Then, eye-tracking was used to investigate participants’ (N = 72) reading behavior. Deliberate metaphors were read slower than non-deliberate metaphors, and both metaphor types were read slower than non-metaphorical words. Differences were controlled for several psycholinguistic variables. Differences in reading behavior were related to individual differences in reading experience and absorption and appreciation of the story. These results are in line with predictions from DMT and underline the importance of distinguishing between metaphor types in the experimental study of literary reading.
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BOLOGNESI, MARIANNA. "Using semantic feature norms to investigate how the visual and verbal modes afford metaphor construction and expression." Language and Cognition 9, no. 3 (2016): 525–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.27.
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abstractIn this study, two modalities of expression (verbal and visual) are compared and contrasted, in relation to their ability and their limitations to construct and express metaphors. A representative set of visual metaphors and a representative set of linguistic metaphors are here compared, and the semantic similarity between metaphor terms is modeled within the two sets. Such similarity is operationalized in terms of semantic features produced by informants in a property generation task (e.g., McRae et al., 2005). Semantic features provide insights into conceptual content, and play a role in deep conceptual processing, as opposed to shallow linguistic processing. Thus, semantic features appear to be useful for modeling metaphor comprehension, assuming that metaphors are matters of thought rather than simple figures of speech (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980). The question tackled in this paper is whether semantic features can account for the similarity between metaphor terms of both visual and verbal metaphors. For this purpose, a database of semantic features was collected and then used to analyze fifty visual metaphors and fifty verbal metaphors. It was found that the number of semantic features shared between metaphor terms is predicted by the modality of expression of the metaphor: the terms compared in visual metaphors share semantic features, while the terms compared in verbal metaphors do not. This suggests that the two modalities of expression afford different ways to construct and express metaphors.
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Zawisławska, Magdalena. "Narrative metaphors in Polish perfumery discourse." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6, no. 2 (2019): 221–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00039.zaw.
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Abstract The Polish perfumery discourse is permeated with various kinds of metaphors, starting with lexicalized metaphorical terms, e.g., nuta “note”, to creative, extended, and elaborated metaphors, e.g., Intensywnie doprawiony przedpokój prowadzi do cytrusowegosalonu, który jak dla mnie mógłby zajmować trochę mniej miejsca, bo najbardziej wartościowa jest kuchnia – serce domu! “Intensively flavored entrance hall leads to the citrus salon, which for me could be smaller because the most valuable is the kitchen – the heart of a home!” This paper concentrates on a specific type of verbal metaphor, used quite often in the Polish perfumery discourse, called narrative metaphor. Such narrative metaphors can encompass extensive fragments of a discourse or even a whole text. This study describes the triggers of narrative metaphors in perfumery discourse and emphasizes the importance of reference in such metaphor analysis.
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Reijnierse, W. Gudrun, Christian Burgers, Tina Krennmayr, and Gerard J. Steen. "Metaphor in communication: the distribution of potentially deliberate metaphor across register and word class." Corpora 14, no. 3 (2019): 301–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2019.0176.
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There is renewed interest in the special role that metaphor can have in its communicative status as metaphor between language users. This paper investigates the occurrence of such deliberate metaphors in comparison with non-deliberate metaphors. To this end, a corpus of 24,762 metaphors was analysed for the presence of potentially deliberate (versus non-deliberate) metaphor use across registers and word classes. Results show that 4.36 percent of metaphors in the corpus are identified as potentially deliberate metaphors. News and fiction contain significantly more potentially deliberate metaphors, while academic texts and conversations exhibit significantly fewer potentially deliberate metaphors than expected. Moreover, nouns and adjectives are used relatively more frequently as potentially deliberate metaphors, while adverbs, verbs and prepositions are used relatively less frequently as potentially deliberate metaphors. These results can be explained by referring to the overall communicative properties of the registers concerned, as well as to the role of the different word classes in those registers.
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Xu, Xiaobing, and Rong Chen. "Time metaphor and regulatory focus." European Journal of Marketing 54, no. 8 (2020): 1865–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-08-2018-0575.
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Purpose Two time metaphors are often adopted to express the passage of time: the ego-moving metaphor that conceptualizes the ego as moving toward the stationary event (e.g. we are approaching the holiday) or the event-moving metaphor that conceptualizes the event as moving toward the stationary ego (e.g. the holiday is approaching us). This paper aims to investigate the influence of the time metaphor on regulatory focus, as well as its downstream marketing implications. Design/methodology/approach Five studies were conducted. Studies 1a–1c examined the moderating effect of the valence of events on the relationship between time metaphors and regulatory focus. Studies 2–3 investigated the downstream marketing implications of the above effects. Findings The findings indicated that compared to the event-moving metaphor, the ego-moving metaphor is more likely to evoke a promotion focus when consumers anticipate a positive event. However, when the event is negative, the ego-moving metaphor is more likely to evoke a prevention focus compared to the event-moving metaphor. Research limitations/implications This research extends the previous literature on regulatory focus activation by showing that time metaphors affect regulatory focus, and that event valence plays a critical moderating role in the relationship. Practical implications Many companies rely on positive events (e.g. holidays, anniversaries) to market their products. The findings of this research suggest that companies promoting products with promotion-related benefits or products with higher risks should adopt an ego-moving metaphor to describe the coming of the event. In contrast, companies promoting products with prevention-related benefits or products with low risks should adopt an event-moving metaphor to describe the coming of the event. Originality/value This research showed that the effects of time metaphors on consumers’ regulatory focus depend on the valence of the events. It also demonstrated the downstream implications of time metaphors by showing that time metaphors influence consumer product choices and financial decisions.
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Huang, Wen-Yi, and Wen-yu Chiang. "The kaleidoscope of divine images." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 5, no. 1 (2018): 155–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.00017.hua.
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Abstract Compared to metaphors about God in the Bible, those in other Christian contexts seem to receive little academic attention. To bridge this gap, this study examines metaphors gathered from gospel songs on Billboard and iTunes to analyze the abstract concept of God from a cognitive linguistic viewpoint through extending the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Our findings indicate that while diverse kinds of metaphors focus on the multi-dimensionality of God such as his characteristics (e.g., GOD IS A MAGICIAN and GOD IS A LOVER), outline (e.g., GOD IS A CONTAINER and GOD IS LIQUID), and supreme status (e.g., GOD IS HIGH), structural metaphors tend to represent the overwhelming majority and thus form the basis for the structural-metaphor-dominant phenomenon. In addition, the flawless figure of God is suggested to result from the PERFECTION image schema which is responsible for hidden aspects in related metaphorical structures. Furthermore, metaphors about divine images, having their mapping details enriched by biblical context, are suggested to possess recessive metaphor inheritance. Finally, the rhythm of ‘chain of metaphors’ is proposed to interpret how the spirit of the songs about the divine being are brought out. This study sheds light on our overall understanding of the concepts of God in Christian culture, and contributes to the development of interdisciplinary studies concerning metaphor, religion, cognition, and culture.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Metaphors. eng"
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Pagadigorria, Marta Maria. "Recursos de presença nas crônicas de Millôr Fernandes /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93987.
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Orientador: Antônio Suárez Abreu<br>Resumo: Tem esta dissertação o objetivo de descrever, a partir da Nova Retórica e do modelo cognitivista de projeções de imagens, os recursos de presença em uma amostragem de seis crônicas retiradas do livro Lições de um Ignorante escrito por Millôr Fernandes. Esses recursos são entendidos como procedimentos que procuram dar visibilidade aos argumentos utilizados por orador. Em suas crônicas o autor utiliza uma superposição desses recursos. Entre eles, avultam as definições expressivas a reformulação retórica o detournement (provérbio modificados) projeção de um evento em outro as metáforas e quase sempre enumerações progressivas levando ao non sense. O estrato fônico é também bastante utilizado.<br>Abstract: This dissertation has the aim of describing, from the framework of the New Rhetoric and the cognitive model of the image projection, the resources of presence in sample of six chronicles extrated from the book Lições de um Ignorante, written by Millôr Fernandes, se resourses are understood as procedures that inend to give visibility to the arguments used by an orator. In his chronicles, the author uses a superposition of those resousers. Among them he emphasizes the expressive definitions, the rhetoric reformulations, the detournement (modified proverbs), projection of an event onto other metaphors, and almost always, progressive's enumerations, leading at the non sense. The phonetic level is also widely used.<br>Mestre
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Bozelli, Fernanda Cátia. "Analogias e metáforas no ensino de física : o discurso do professor e o discurso do aluno /." Bauru : [s.n.], 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90890.
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Orientador: Roberto Nardi<br>Banca: Eduardo Adolfo Terrazan<br>Banca: Washington Luiz Pacheco de Carvalho<br>Resumo: As relações entre linguagem e ensino de ciências têm sido objeto constante de pesquisa nos últimos anos, tendo se constituído numa promissora linha de investigação na área de Educação em Ciências. Dentre essas pesquisas, destacam-se os estudos sobre a utilização das analogias e metáforas enquanto recurso didático mediador entre os procesos de ensino e de aprendizagem. No caso específico da pesquisa em Ensino de Física, muitos dos pesquisadores têm mostrado interesse no levantamento de fenômenos físicos que podem ser comparados através do uso dessas figuras de linguagem. Entretanto, as condições de produção das analogias e/ou metáforas pelo professor ou pelo aluno são ainda pouco estudadas, e a partir desta constatação é que esta pesquisa foi desenhada. Com o intuito de avançar nos estudos nessa linha, procura-se aqui responder a questões do tipo: como as analogias e metáforas são utilizadas nas aulas de física?<br>Abstract: The relation between language and science teaching has been a constant object of research in the last years, becoming a promising research line in Science Education. Among these researches, come up studies on the use of analogies and metaphors as mediator didatic resource between teaching and learning processes. In the specific case of the research in physics teaching, many of the researchers has showed interest in raising physical phenomena that can be compared through the use of these language figues. However, the analogies and/or metaphors production conditions by teachers or students are still little studied and that verification was important for the design of this research. Aiming to improve the studies in that way, we tried here to answer questions like: hos are analogies and metaphors used in physics classes?<br>Mestre
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Moschem, Marcela de Almeida. "Verossimilhança das metáforas roseanas em Sagarana /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93979.
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Orientador: Antônio Suárez Abreu<br>Resumo: Partindo do conceito de metáfora de Lakoff e Johnson (1980), que entende essa figura como a projeção de um domínio de origem em um domínio-alvo, e da teoria de Fauconnier e Turner (2002), vinculada esta última à Teoria dos Espaços Mentais, o objetivo deste trabalho é descrever os domínios de origem das metáforas de alguns contos de Sagarana. O estudo da metáfora tem condições de revelar o grau de verossimilhança dessa obra, pois, nas metáforas criadas por um personagem, o narrador-personagem, os domínios de origem devem circunscrever-se ao universo do sertão. Quando o narrador é onisciente, em terceira pessoa, esse domínio pode ter um escopo muito maior. Trata-se, pois, de verificar até que ponto a metáfora contribui para a verossimilhança na obra de Guimarães Rosa.<br>Abstract: Departing of the concept of metaphor of Lakoff and Johnson (1980), which understands this figure as the projection of a domain of source in a target domain, and of the theory of Fauconnier and Turner, tied this last at Theory of the Mental Spaces, the objective of work is to describe the domains of source of the metaphors of some short stories of Sagarana. The study of this figure has conditions of disclose the degree of probability of this workmanship, therefore, in the metaphors created for a personage, or narrator-personage, the domains of source must circumscribe the universe of the remote interior. When the narrator is omniscient, in third person, this domain can have a target very major. Treat, therefore, of verifying until which point the metaphor contribute for the probability in the workmanship of Guimarães Rosa.<br>Mestre
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Moschem, Marcela de Almeida. "Riobaldo e Diadorim : um estudo dentro do cenário criado pela metáfora da travessia /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103543.
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Orientador: Antônio Suárez Abreu<br>Banca: Edvanda Bonavina da Rosa<br>Banca: Bento Carlos Dias da Silva<br>Banca: Isadora Valencise Gregolin<br>Banca: Eliana Izabel Scurciato<br>Resumo: Este trabalho tem o objetivo de utilizar o modelo da Linguística Cognitiva, es-pecialmente o dos esquemas de imagem e o da integração conceptual, para fazer uma análise dos trechos que tratam da relação entre Riobaldo e Diadorim em Grande Ser-tão: Veredas, de Guimarães Rosa. De acordo com essa teoria, os esquemas de imagem constituem elementos bási-cos para o exercício da linguagem, estruturando, pré-conceitualmente, nossa experiên-cia corpórea de mundo; eles são também utilizados em literatura e, segundo Turner (1996), constituem um excelente recurso para criar efeitos de sentido no texto literário. Dessa forma, constituem objeto de especial interesse projeções metafóricas de travessia estruturadas pelos esquemas de imagem, analisadas nessa obra de Guimarães Rosa, uma vez que a metáfora também é vista pela neurociência atual como um prin-cípio organizador do pensamento e da criatividade humana. Assim, utilizando principalmente os esquemas de PERCURSO e de DINÂMI-CA DE FORÇAS, este trabalho procura demonstrar a eficácia da aplicabilidade desses esquemas como subsídio para o entendimento de aspectos de Grande Sertão: Vere-das, especialmente o acima citado<br>Abstract: This dissertation aims at employing the theory of Cognitive Linguistics, spe-cially the image schema and the conceptual integration frameworks to analyze the ex-cerpts where the relationship between Riobaldo e Diadorim is explored by Guimarães Rosa in Grande Sertão: Veredas. According to this theory, image schemas are the basic elements that underlie language performance, structuring preconceptually our world bodily experience; they are also employed in literature and, according to Mark Turner (1996), constitutes an excellent resource for creating meaning effects in literary texts. Accordingly metaphorical projections of crossing structured by image schemas analyzed in this title by Guimarães Rosa are object of special interest, inasmuch they are seen by present neuroscience as an organizer principle of thought and human crea-tivity. Therefore, by employing SOURCE-PATH-GOAL and FORCE DYNAMICS image schemas, this work seeks to demonstrate the efficacy of the applicability of those schemas as a base for understanding aspects of Grande Sertão: Veredas, par-ticularly the ones reported above<br>Doutor
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Oliveira, Ana Eliza Barbosa de. "A metáfora e a sua representação em sistemas de processamento automático de línguas naturais /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93981.
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Orientador: Bento Carlos Dias da Silva<br>Banca: Antônio Suárez Abreu<br>Banca: Roberta Pires de Oliveira<br>Resumo: Este trabalho tem como proposta (i) o estudo da metáfora per se (em oposição, por exemplo, a um estudo aplicado da metáfora) da perspectiva lingüística, isto é, o estudo da metáfora enquanto uma expressão da linguagem natural e (ii) a investigação de uma representação formal da metáfora para fins de implementação em sistemas de processamento automático de línguas naturais. A metodologia que norteia o desenvolvimento da proposta, que se insere em um contexto interdisciplinar, focaliza dois domínios: o Domínio Lingüístico-Cognitivo, em que se investiga a expressão lingüística e o suporte cognitivo da metáfora, ou seja, a metáfora enquanto um produto resultante de recursos lingüísticos e não- lingüísticos; e o Domínio Lingüístico-Computacional, em que se investiga a representação formal da produção e da interpretação da metáfora para fins computacionais. Como delimitadores dessas investigações, adotam-se os seguintes enfoques: Retórico-Filosófico, Interacionista, Semântico, Pragmático, Cognitivista e Computacional.<br>Abstract: This MS thesis concerns the study of metaphor per se, (as opposed to applied metaphor) from the linguistic point of view, and the investigation of a formal metaphor representation for Natural Language Processing systems. The overall methodology focuses on two domains: a Cognitive- Linguistic Domain, in which we investigate the metaphor linguistic expression and its cognitive import, i.e., metaphor as a linguistic product and as a nonlinguistic mechanism; and a Computational- Linguistic Domain, in which we investigate a formal representation for the metaphor production and interpretation. The theoretical approaches that constrain the scope of this work are: philosophical- rhetoric, interactionist, semantic, pragmatic, cognitive and computational assessment to metaphor.<br>Mestre
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Pinho, Fabio Assis 1977. "Aspectos éticos em representação do conhecimento em temáticas relativas à homossexualidade masculina : uma análise da precisão em linguagens de indexação brasileiras /." Marília : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103379.
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Orientador: José Augusto Chaves Guimarães<br>Banca: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes<br>Banca: Eduardo Ismael Murguia Marañon<br>Banca: Juan Carlos Fernández-Molina<br>Banca: Miriam Figueiredo Vieira da Cunha<br>Resumo: Os estudos sobre a ética na Organização e Representação do Conhecimento, especialmente no Tratamento Temático da Informação, têm colaborado para sedimentar os referenciais teóricos e metodológicos da Ciência da Informação, que se justificam pelo pressuposto da inclusão social que, enquanto um metavalor, se situa entre o preconceito social e o proselitismo, formando um cenário onde três universos axiológicos convivem: o do documento ou informação, o do usuário e o do bibliotecário. Por isso, a indexação está ligada a uma dimensão ética porque deve preocupar-se com sua confiabilidade e utilidade em relação a determinadas comunidades discursivas ou domínios específicos. Nesse sentido, propõe-se, por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória e documental, com características qualitativas e indutivas, identificar a máxima especificidade terminológica que linguagens de indexação brasileiras permitem para termos relativos à homossexualidade masculina, analisando como corpus investigativo os termos atribuídos aos artigos científicos publicados na Journal of Homosexuality, Sexualities e Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, entre os anos de 2005 a 2009. Do cotejo e análise dos termos e das linguagens de indexação brasileiras verifica-se uma aproximação de significados no contexto brasileiro, imprecisão terminológica, com indícios de preconceitos disseminados através do 'politicamente correto', representação inadequada da temática e a presença de figuras de linguagem<br>Abstract: The studies on ethics in Knowledge Organization and Representation, especially in the Subject Approach to Information, have collaborated to establish the theoretical and methodological aspects of Information Science which are justified by the assumption of social inclusion, as a metavalue, it situated itself between social prejudice and proselytize, creating a situation where three axiological universes coexist: the document or information, the user and the librarian. Therefore, the indexing is linked to an ethical dimension because it must concern itself with its reliability and usefulness in certain discourse communities or specific domains. In this direction, it is proposed through an exploratory and documental research with qualitative and inductive characteristics to identify the maximum specific terminological that Brazilian indexing languages allow for terms relating to male homosexuality, analyzing like investigative corpus the terms assigned to papers published in the Journal of Homosexuality, Sexualities and Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, between the years 2005 to 2009. From confrontation and analysis of terms and the Brazilian indexing languages there is an approximation of meaning in the Brazilian context, imprecision in the terminology, with indications of prejudices disseminate by 'politically correct', the biased representation of the thematic and the presence of figures of speech<br>Doutor
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Golding, Alex. "Beyond propositionality : metaphor in the embodied mind." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2016. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/fa0b7ddf-eb07-47b1-8d53-e37943660589.
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This thesis proposes a synthesis of ideas from relevance theory’s conceptual and propositional approach to utterance interpretation with assumptions about the role of non-propositional elements, such as percepts, images and feelings, from embodied cognition. It begins by considering the traditional view of metaphor (reflected in the work of Grice) as involving the transfer of properties from a metaphor vehicle to a target. Relevance theory’s account of metaphoric interpretation makes critical developments to these traditional explanations. It describes the manner in which conceptual and propositional representations are accessed in the interpretation of metaphor using the notion of an ad-hoc concept construction. According to this account, the hearer of a metaphor inferentially develops the encoded concept to an occasion-specific ad-hoc concept, which resembles the speaker’s thought more closely. The thesis points out problems with the relevance-theoretic account, most notably its failure to account for intuitions about the role of non-propositional elements in the comprehension of at least some novel metaphors. It considers a range of approaches which have aimed to handle non-propositional components, including Davidson’s entirely non-propositional, non-communicative approach, and suggests that the solution is to be found in adopting a more embodied view of cognition. It argues that relevance theory’s communicative and cognitive approach to language use needs to be broadened to include an embodied notion of a concept in which the conceptual regions of cognition have access to the sensorimotor system, the affective sites for feeling and the physiological representations implicit in emotional responses. Accordingly, propositional (conceptual) and non-propositional representations can be activated simultaneously during the interpretation of a metaphor. Extending the relevance-theoretic account in this way can solve some of the problems that remain with it. In particular, it helps to explain how the comprehension of novel metaphors can sometimes lead to the derivation of socalled ‘emergent properties’, those elements of metaphorical meaning which emerge, but are typically associated with neither the vehicle nor the target concept.
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Daoud, Atef Tag El-din Agami. "Applying conceptual metaphor theory to figurative language teaching." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2010. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/af8ced29-ad1f-40d9-a691-e747b6ec70b2.
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Fremi, Stella. "Gender crossing tales : a case for myth and metaphor." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2014. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/db962279-1922-413f-ba88-4172aeabbca2.
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This study argues in favour of creating a new paradigm around gender transition that goes beyond politically distinctive ‘label identities’ and aims to include individuals who seem to lack a clear ‘destination’ within definitions of ‘gender transition’. Contrary to sociological models that have constructed understandings of gender transition via separate categories into which individuals may be grouped, this study argues that those assigned to the categories of ‘gender oscillators’ and ‘gender migrators’ –or ‘cross-dressers’ and ‘transsexuals’- do not necessarily constitute members of different groups. The thesis draws on a detailed discursive analysis of interactions within focus group discussions and critically engages with the notions of recognition and monstrosity as these apply to trans-gender theorising. Thirteen male-to-female individuals who self-identified as embodying various expressions of gender transition agreed to take part in three independent focus groups that explored participants’ understanding of transition. An interdisciplinary methodological approach was adopted, this drawing upon the principles of discourse analysis to reveal how subject positions are formed within the gender-crossing discourse. Gender crossing tales were collected and analysed as a means of interaction and were set within the framework of myth and legend which had sought to explain human existence and possibilities of viable gendered personhood over the millennia. The use of metaphors was critically examined, particularly those which describe gender transition as a path which leads to a sought-after ‘home’; a place where an individual expects and hopes to find recognition as their ‘true’ female self. This study argues that the various classifications of trans-gender expressions are products of the given sociocultural matrix that regulates recognition within relations of power. It also argues that those assigned to different categories actually share individual expressions of similar embodied feelings, namely the wish to be accepted as females, and that their journey ‘home’ is mobilised by a defence against the fear that the loss of the desired subject position will defeat one’s capacity to have hope about anything. In an effort to introduce an alternative, value-free approach to the more-conventional clinical and politicised attempts to describe and classify individuals who cross the gender norm, this study suggests an account of the metaphorical positioning of the trans-gender self which aims to build connections across various understandings of non-normative gendered bodies and offer new forms of identity and agency which may make the lives of all individuals who gender-cross more liveable.
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Raby, June. "Material, memory, metaphor : convergences of significance in the ceramic vessel." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2015. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/7403ade8-2f29-4aeb-928f-ef37dac4c5fd.
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An enquiry into the significance of the ceramic vessel has led to an investigation of its historical and contemporary social purposes. Daily use of this object to hold substances essential to life connects it materially to the land and to the human body. This connectivity has created tradition and led to ritual expression in many parts of the world. The research analyses the manner in which individuals and societies have imbued these vessels with memory: aiding memory, obscuring it, telling stories, connecting people, embellishing tales and creating myths.
Books on the topic "Metaphors. eng"
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Freedman, Jill, M.S.W., ed. Symbol, story, and ceremony: Using metaphor in individual and family therapy. Norton, 1990.
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Comfort, Laura. Will the "fight" ever end?: A critical reading of the metaphors and discourses that construct HIV/AIDS in an African context. Brock University, Dept. of English, 2009.
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The end of American history: Democracy, capitalism, and the metaphor of two worlds in Anglo-American historical writing, 1880-1980. University of Minnesota Press, 1985.
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Huntzinger, Jonathan David. The end of exile: A short commentary on the shepherd/sheep metaphor in exilic and post-exilic prophetic and synoptic gospel literature. ProQuest (UMI Dissertation Services), 1999.
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Philip, Edwards. Sea-mark: The metaphorical voyage, Spenser to Milton. Liverpool University Press, 1997.
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Freedman, Jill, M.S.W. Narrative therapy: The social construction of preferred realities. Norton, 1996.
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Yu, Angela J. Bayesian Models of Attention. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.025.
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Traditionally, attentional selection has been thought of as arising naturally from resource limitations, with a focus on what might be the most apt metaphor, e.g. whether it is a ‘bottleneck’ or ‘spotlight’. However, these simple metaphors cannot account for the specificity, flexibility, and heterogeneity of the way attentional selection manifests itself in different behavioural contexts. A recent body of theoretical work has taken a different approach, focusing on the computational needs of selective processing, relative to environmental constraints and behavioural goals. They typically adopt a normative computational framework, incorporating Bayes-optimal algorithms for information processing and action selection. This chapter reviews some of this recent modelling work, specifically in the context of attention for learning, covert spatial attention, and overt spatial attention.
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Freedman, Jill, and Gene Combs. Symbol, Story, and Ceremony: Using Metaphor in Individual and Family Therapy. Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 1990.
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Vernillo, Paola. "Grounding Abstract Concepts in Action." In Language, Cognition, and Mind. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69823-2_8.
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AbstractSensory-motor information is linguistically encoded by action verbs. Such verbs are not only used to express action concepts and events, but they are also pervasively exploited in the linguistic representation of abstract concepts and figurative meanings. In the light of several theoretical approaches (i.e., Embodied Theories, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Image Schema Theory), this paper analyzes the mechanisms that enable action verbs to acquire abstract meanings and that motivate the symmetries (or asymmetries) in the semantic variations of locally equivalent verbs (e.g., premere and spingere; Eng., to press and to push). The research is carried out within the IMAGACT framework and focuses on a set of four Italian action verbs encoding force (i.e., premere, spingere, tirare, and trascinare; Eng., to press, to push, to pull, and to drag). The results confirm that metaphorical extensions of action verbs are constrained by the image schemas involved in the core meaning of the verbs. Additionally, the paper shows that these image schemas are responsible for the asymmetries in the metaphorical variation of action verbs pertaining to the same semantic class (i.e., force).
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Corno, Fulvio, Luigi De Russis, and Alberto Monge Roffarello. "My IoT Puzzle: Debugging IF-THEN Rules Through the Jigsaw Metaphor." In End-User Development. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24781-2_2.
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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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Chen, Ya-chen. "Cinematic Metaphors of Autumn Cicadas and Chilling Cicadas: The Way Out of Legal Bottlenecks in Sex Appeal." In (En)Gendering Taiwan. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_5.
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Leydesdorff, Loet. "Evolutionary and Institutional Triple Helix Models." In Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5_5.
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AbstractThe institutional TH model focuses on relations of universities, industries, and governments in networks. Institutional arrangements develop over time along trajectories. The Triple-Helix metaphor of university-industry-government relations can also be elaborated into a neo-evolutionary model combining the vertical differentiation among the levels (in terms of relations, correlations, perspectives, and horizons of meaning) with the options for horizontal differentiation among the codes (e.g., markets, technologies, politics, etc., oper-ating in parallel). The neo-evolutionary model focuses on the interactions among selection mechanisms (markets, technologies, endowments) at the regime level. The historical and evolutionary dynamics feedback on each other. The relative weights of the historical versus evolutionary dynamics can be measured as a trade-off. Among three or more selection environments, synergy can be generated as redundancy on top of the aggregates of bilateral and unilateral contributions to the information flows. The number of new options available to an innovation system for realization may be as decisive for its survival more than the historical record of past performance.
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Coffin, Jack. "Plateaus and Afterglows: Theorizing the Afterlives of Gayborhoods as Post-Places." In The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4_16.
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AbstractA number of commentators have acknowledged the decline of gayborhoods and the concomitant emergence of non-heteronormative diasporas in societies where sexual and gender diversity is normalized (Ghaziani 2015; Nash and Gorman-Murray 2017; Bitterman 2020). Academic studies tend to focus on the new lives that are being led beyond the gayborhood and the diminished distinctiveness of the territories left behind (e.g. Ghaziani 2014). In contrast, this chapter explores the possibility that gayborhoods can continue to influence sociospatial dynamics, even after their physical presence has diminished or disappeared altogether. Individuals and collectives may still be inspired by the memories, representations, and imaginaries previously provided by these erstwhile places. Indeed, the metaphor of a non-heteronormative diaspora relies on an ‘origin’ from which a cultural network has dispersed. In this sense gayborhoods can continue to function as post-places, as symbolic anchors of identity that operate even if they no longer exist in a material form, even if they are used simply as markers of ‘how far the diaspora has come’. The proposition that gayborhoods are becoming post-places could be more fully theorized in a number of ways, but the approach here is to adapt Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987: 22) notion of plateaus, which denote a “region of intensities whose development avoids any orientation towards a culmination point or external end”. From this perspective gayborhoods are not spatial phenomena that reach a climax of concentration and then disappear through dissipation. Instead, they can be described as becoming more intense and concrete in the latter half of the twentieth century before gradually fading after the new millennium as they disperse gradually into a diaspora as memories, habits, and so forth. Put another way, non-climactic gayborhoods leave ‘afterglows’, affects that continue to exert geographical effects in the present and near future. This conceptualization is consequential for theory, practice, and political activism, and ends the main body of this edited volume on a more ambitious note.
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Gauss, Boris, and Leon Urbas. "Adaptable Navigation in a SCORM Compliant Learning Module." In End-User Computing. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-945-8.ch102.
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This chapter is about the use of metaphors and adaptable navigation in the context of the technological standard SCORM. Our theoretical focus is on hypertext navigation in SCORM compliant learning modules and the potential of adaptable navigation metaphors within this standard. In the empirical section, we present a case study about navigation design and usability evaluation of a learning module prototype. This learning module was developed for the subject matter of steady-state modelling in process systems engineering, and features an adaptable navigation with a novel process control metaphor. We conclude with a discussion on the didactical value of navigation metaphors and adaptability in SCORM, and provide some suggestions for future research in this area.
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Walther-Hansen, Mads. "Sound Quality." In Making Sense of Recordings. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197533901.003.0004.
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The chapter takes a closer look at sonic concepts and the relevant major strands of research in the cognitive sciences. The chapter explores the ways in which the cognitive processing of sound is a multimodal task that extends into the world via language, technology, and actions. The main source of information in this study consists of cognitive metaphors reflected in written accounts, but the chapter also outlines nonlinguistic realizations of sound quality such as visual metaphors (e.g., graphical user interfaces) and enacted metaphors (e.g., bodily actions). The transition from analog mixing boards to digital ones that maintain the actions and look of the first-generation models is explored in the context of the SIGNAL FLOW metaphor. Finally, the schematic function of force metaphors in sound production is covered.
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Kluge, Alexander. "What Is a Metaphor?" In Difference and Orientation, edited by Richard Langston. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501739200.003.0008.
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This chapter examines the dialogue between Rainer Stollmann and Alexander Kluge wherein they talked about the power and importance of metaphors. Kluge explains that a metaphor is the creation of a web of ideas. He says that Karl Marx's description of primitive accumulation is one of these webs. That is why Marx let English history serve as his example, even though primitive accumulation assumes a different form in every country, which he also acknowledges. Kluge then argues that one needs to dissolve historically specific metaphors. The creation of metaphors is not an end in itself. Their brevity lasts in the time immediately after they evolve. In later eras, they provide a foil or commentary. Ultimately, metaphors do not reflect observations, but instead provoke questions.
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Audebrand, Luc K., and John W. Burton. "Nurturing Integrity in Management Education with the Development of an Alternative Web of Metaphors." In Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch021.
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In recent years management education has sought to integrate into both undergraduate and graduate programs a concern for ethics and integrity. If this goal is to be achieved management educators must address the way in which an overreliance on mainstream metaphors (e.g., business-as-war) perpetuates an approach to management which is at odds with ethics and integrity. They need to be mindful of how metaphors are used and the images that they evoke. Part of the challenge in fostering ethics and integrity is to challenge the preconceptions which students have about the nature of business activities. Such attitudes are generally in line with these mainstream metaphors. In this chapter, the authors’ goal is not to find the perfect metaphor; one which will best incorporate a praxis of integrity as a part of management education. Rather they suggest that overuse of any metaphor has distorting effects and that what is the needed is to develop a web of metaphors which will provide management students with a capacity for seeing events from a broader perspective which includes considerations of ethical and value implications. Exposure to different metaphors will lead to different lines of reasoning and decision-making. By using different metaphors to understand the complex and paradoxical character of management, students have the opportunity to see possibilities for action and implications of decisions that they may not have thought about otherwise. In short, it is their claim that management education needs metaphorical pluralism if it is to nurture ethics and integrity.
Conference papers on the topic "Metaphors. eng"
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Demjaha, Albese, Jonathan Spring, Ingolf Becker, Simon Parkin, and Angela Sasse. "Metaphors considered harmful? An exploratory study of the effectiveness of functional metaphors for end-to-end encryption." In Workshop on Usable Security. Internet Society, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14722/usec.2018.23015.
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Подвесовский, Александр, Aleksandr Podvesovskiy, Руслан Исаев, and Ruslan Isaev. "Assessing the Quality of Visualization Metaphor of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps on the Basis of Formalized Cognitive Clarity Criteria." In 29th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Visualization Systems and the Virtual Environment GraphiCon'2019. Bryansk State Technical University, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30987/graphicon-2019-2-103-107.
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The paper presents continuation of research in the field of constructing a visualization metaphor of cognitive models based on fuzzy cognitive maps. The focus is on the spatial metaphor as the basis for representation metaphor formation. A method is proposed for quality assessment of a spatial metaphor of a fuzzy cognitive map based on formalized cognitive clarity criteria defined in the previous part of the study. To this end, methods have been developed to formalize several nontrivial criteria of cognitive clarity. An example is given that confirms correctness of the proposed method for assessing the quality of a visualization metaphor.
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Mao, Rui, Chenghua Lin, and Frank Guerin. "End-to-End Sequential Metaphor Identification Inspired by Linguistic Theories." In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/p19-1378.
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Gay, Jonathan R., Victoria Simms, Raymond R. Bond, et al. "Visuocognitive Fluency Facilitating ECG Interpretation with Visual Metaphors and Expressive Tags." In Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference. BCS Learning & Development, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2018.122.
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Canfield Smith, David. "SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award Talk: Icons, Metaphor, and End-User Programming." In CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3386148.
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Raza, Ali, and Benito R. Fernandez. "Artificial Immune System for Heterogeneous Mobile Robotic Systems." In ASME 2010 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/dscc2010-4264.
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Artificial immune system draws its inspiration from the biological immune functions mainly those of humans. Recently, newer definitions of biological immune system have appeared and gained significance because of their strong immunological roots e.g. danger theory. This raises the need to look into earlier work on immuno-inspired robotics. Especially, older approach of idiotypic-network must be compared with the newer approach of danger-theory. Authors in this research have successfully applied both the definitions on heterogeneous mobile robotic systems. Idiotypic connections between antibodies have been used as a tool to navigate robots as well as to establish inter-robot communication in an immune network approach. Similarly, co-stimulatory signal concentrations have been used to contextualize the environment, in a danger theory approach, to initiate and regulate the immuno responses. Immune metaphors have been translated into relevant computational models and simulated in search and rescue operation in an obstacle filled arena.
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Lošonc, Alpar, Andrea Ivanišević, and Ivana Katić. "Economic discourse and visual configuration." In 10th International Symposium on Graphic Engineering and Design. University of Novi Sad, Faculty of technical sciences, Department of graphic engineering and design,, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24867/grid-2020-p53.
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Economic discourse has always used different visual modes of shaping perception. For example, characteristic classical image in economic discourse is the "invisible hand". In doing so, economic discourse reaches for, concerning of its metaphors, for resources in physics, but also in literature. If big part of the visual figures of economic discourse (equilibrium, e.g.) was borrowed from physics in the twentieth century, mathematics is a significant, even dominant source of the formation of visual perception, based on different schemes, graphs and geometric figures. In this paper, we show the configuration dynamics of visual perceptions in economic discourse, starting from the fact that visualization of economic discourse has the following functions: a) demonstration of certain knowledge, b) the realization of a performative visual effect, that is the creation of certain forms of visibility, c) persuasion of the public regarding the fact that economic discourse has cognitive authority.
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Ahishakiye, Emmanuella. "Cross-modal Perception in Kirundi." In 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (SAIM 2021). AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5121/csit.2021.111007.
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Languages do not always use specific perception words to refer to specific senses. A word from one sense can metaphorically express another physical perception meaning. For Kirundi, findings from a corpus-based analysis revealed a cross-modal polysemy and a bidirectional hierarchy between higher and lower senses. The attested multisensory expression of auditory verb kwûmva ‘hear’ allows us to reduce sense modalities to two –vision and audition. Moreover, the auditory experience verb kwûmva ‘hear’ shows that lower senses can extend to higher senses through the use of synaesthetic metaphor (e.g. kwûmva akamōto ‘lit:hear a smell’/ururírīmbo ruryōshé ‘lit: a tasty song’/ururirimbo ruhimbâye ‘lit: a pleasant song). However, in collocations involving emotion words, it connects perception to emotion (e.g.; kwûmva inzara ‘lit: hear hunger’, kwûmva umunêzēro ‘lit: hear happiness’). This association indicates that perception in Kirundi gets information from both internal and external stimuli. Thus, considering feelings as part of the perception system.
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Duta, Oana Adriana. "Metaforizaciones conceptuales del agua en español, francés y rumano." In XXV Coloquio AFUE. Palabras e imaginarios del agua. Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/xxvcoloquioafue.2016.3151.
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Las metáforas lingüísticas representan uno de los principales métodos de ejercer creatividad en la lengua. La lingüística cognitiva ha sido la que ha vinculado las metáforas con el pensamiento humano, trayéndolas, de esta forma, a la realidad cotidiana, y haciendo que, a partir de este momento, el término deje de ser visto solamente como perteneciendo a la jerga especializada. Así pues, Lakoff y Johnson en su obra Metaphors We Live By (1980) señalan que la formación de metáforas no es únicamente una función adicional del lenguaje, sino que forma parte integrante del funcionamiento de una lengua. Ellos sugieren que esto ocurre porque nuestros procesos mentales, o sea nuestra forma de razonar, de conceptualizar las cosas, tienen un profundo carácter metafórico. Partiendo de esta idea, nuestro artículo se propone demostrar que en las tres lenguas romances a las cuales haremos referencia, el español, el francés y el rumano, las configuraciones metafóricas del agua son en gran medida idénticas. Por un lado, podemos hablar de la metáfora ontológica del AGUA COMO PROCESO MENTAL – lo cual queda patente en estructuras como esp. fluidez de las ideas, fr. fluidité des idées. Por otro lado, podemos hallarnos ante la metáfora orientacional de la profundidad, donde el agua es vista como conocimiento: esp. conocimientos profundos, fr. connaissances profondes, esp. sumergirse en una lengua, fr. plonger dans une langue. No por último, encontramos sintagmas de la terminología especializada: esp. flujo de caja, fr. flux de trésorerie, cuyo mecanismo de lexicalización se ha prestado del inglés trasladando a la vez la conceptualización metafórica.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/XXVColloqueAFUE.2016.3146
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Maas, Toon, Mohamad Tuffaha, and Laurent Ney. "Footbridges as an important part of a system: the context as an experience." In Footbridge 2022 (Madrid): Creating Experience. Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructural, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2022.227.
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<p>“A bridge has to be designed”. Every bridge is the exploration of all degrees of a freedom of a project: the context, cultural processes, technology, engineering and industrial skills. A successful bridge aims to dialogue with these degrees of freedom to achieve a delicate equilibrium, one that invites the participation of its users and emotes new perceptions for its viewers. In short, a good design “makes the bridge talk.”</p><p>Too often, the bridge, as an object, is reduced to its functionality. Matters of perceptions and experiences of the users are often not considered in the design process; they are relegated to levels of chance or treated as simple decorative matter. The longevity of infrastructure projects, in general, and bridges, in particular, highlights the deficiencies of such an approach. The framework to design bridges must include historical, cultural, and experiential dimensions. Technology and engineering are of paramount importance but cannot be considered as “an end in themselves but a means to an end”. This paper proposes to discuss three projects by Ney &amp; Partners that illustrate such a comprehensive exploration approach to footbridge design: the Poissy and Albi crossings and the Tintagel footbridge.</p><p>The footbridges of Poissy and Albi dialogue most clearly with their historical contexts, reconfiguring the relationship between old and new in the materiality and typology use. In Tintagel, legend replaces history. Becoming a metaphor for the void it crosses, the Tintagel footbridge illustrates the delicate dialogue of technology and engineering on one side and imagination and experience on the other.</p>