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Journal articles on the topic "Metaphors in threads"
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Platon, Elena. "The Thread metaphor in the linguistic imaginary of folklore." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 251–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.4.17.
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The Thread Metaphor in the Linguistic Imaginary of Folklore. In our study, we analyse the conceptualization of the idea of creation in the linguistic imaginary of traditional Romanian communities, with the help of certain metaphors from the sphere of household industry, namely the thread, the linen, the towel, the handkerchief, the kerchief, the girdle and others. By exploring a number of theories from the field of cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics, we research not only the manners of representing genesis, but also those of other forms of “creation”, such as creating human connections, both between the living and between the living and the dead. To this end, we follow certain linguistic data that encode the concept of creation, identified in folkloric texts, such as dirges, incantations, carols, fairytales, or cosmogonic legends. For their correct interpretation, we invoke their relation with popular beliefs, with ritual practices or elements of material patrimony, without which we would not be able to understand the deepest meanings. Finally, the results of the analysis highlight the significance of the seed-thread, as a core-metaphor responsible for the production of several types of creation, at different levels of existence. The thread metaphor supports the imaginary scheme of warping and weaving, which has modelled the representations about the birth of the vast canvas of the world. By analysing the multiple items, the connections and correlations created with the thread’s help, we can better understand that the folkloric world is itself a vast canvas whose threads often remain visible only to the initiated. Keywords: creation, cosmogony, thread, linen, towel, handkerchief, kerchief, girdle, footbridge, bridge, connection.
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Giner, Carmen Alfaro. "Das Einhüllen und Fesseln des Körpers in den indoeuropäischen Kulturen: Zu einigen Metaphern des magischen Schutzes vor Toten und Wiedergeborenen." Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 6, no. 2 (2015): 45–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.28937/1000106441.
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Fäden, Seile und Textilien sind Elemente des Alltagslebens, die bereits früh in der Menschheitsgeschichte einen hohen technischen Entwicklungsstand erreicht haben. Das Spinnen des Fadens, eine der ältesten Formen des Wissens, scheint wie der Ursprung jeder Form der Technik untrennbar mit einer besonderen Mythologie verbunden zu sein. So müssen sich auch Fäden, Knoten und Gewebe, neben ihrer praktischen Anwendung, rasch mit symbolischen Bedeutungen aufgeladen haben. In diesem Beitrag sollen die Symboliken des Fadens, des Knotens und des Gewebes als Metaphern analysiert werden, die bisweilen mit dem Leben, bisweilen mit dem Tod in Verbindung stehen. </br></br>Threads, ropes and textiles are elements of everyday life, which have reached a high technical level of development early in human history. The spinning of the yarn, one of the oldest forms of knowledge, seems to be, like the origin of every form of art, inseparable from a particular mythology. Besides their practical use, threads, nodes and tissues must have been quickly charged with symbolic meanings. This article examines the symbolism of the thread, the node and the tissue as metaphors that are sometimes connected with life and sometimes with death.
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Phelps, Scott. "Brain Ways: Meynert, Bachelard and the Material Imagination of the Inner Life." Medical History 60, no. 3 (June 13, 2016): 388–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2016.29.
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The Austrian psychiatrist Theodor Meynert’s anatomical theories of the brain and nerves are laden with metaphorical imagery, ranging from the colonies of empire to the tentacles of jellyfish. This paper analyses among Meynert’s earliest works a different set of less obvious metaphors, namely, the fibres, threads, branches and paths used to elaborate the brain’s interior. I argue that these metaphors of material, or what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard called ‘material images’, helped Meynert not only to imaginatively extend the tracts of fibrous tissue inside the brain but to insinuate their function as pathways co-extensive with the mind. Above all, with reference to Bachelard’s study of the material imagination, I argue that Meynert helped entrench the historical intuition that the mind, whatever it was, consisted of some interiority – one which came to be increasingly articulated through the fibrous confines of the brain.
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Kragh, Ulrich Timme. "Of similes and metaphors in Buddhist philosophical literature: poetic semblance through mythic allusion." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 73, no. 3 (October 2010): 479–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x10000418.
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AbstractIt is a common supposition that to understand a philosophical writing, knowledge of the philosophical sources on which it draws suffices. Yet, abstract subtleties are often suitably dressed in poetic comparisons, whose threads are spun from a different source. While the body of logical argument appeals to the intellect, the dress of literary tropes allures the emotions. Philosophy is not simply mathematics, for it involves a sentiment, which in Mahāyāna Buddhism means susceptibility to its religious ethos embodied in its path, bodhicitta, and bodhisattvas. Through Candrakīrti's comparison of buddhas and bodhisattvas to the king of geese, I shall here examine the use of similes and metaphors in Indian Buddhist philosophical writing. The analysis illustrates the subtle influence that popular narratives eulogizing the deeds of saints had on such texts, and proposes to revisit philosophical texts as literary works.
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Yang, Sunggu A. "A Liturgical Model for Worship in the Multireligious Context: A Case Study Based on the Interfaith Service Held on September 25, 2015, at 9/11 Museum in New York City." Religions 13, no. 6 (June 14, 2022): 547. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13060547.
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This article proposes a liturgical model for multireligious worship, namely the Pilgrim’s Service for the Ultimate Goodness of Humanity. Three key humanitarian liturgical principles buttress the proposed model; story-sharing, agreed symbols (metaphors), and de-centering. The model also proposes an overarching onto-narrative image—the pilgrim weaving and holding various liturgical threads as a whole. The end goals of this multireligious worship include, among others; (1) renewed awareness of the all-encompassing Transcendent and Its Peace, (2) interreligious dialogue and collaboration, (3) raised consciousness and the practice of radical hospitality for “strangers”, and (4) appreciation of the (religiously) marginalized. The interfaith service held on September 25, 2015, at the 9/11 Museum in New York City is analyzed and annotated, along with further suggestions, as a demonstration of the proposed model.
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Metersky, Kateryna, and Jasna K. Schwind. "Interprofessional Care: Patient Experience Stories." International Journal of Person Centered Medicine 5, no. 2 (November 9, 2015): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v5i2.528.
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Interprofessional care (IPC) has been discussed in the literature as having the ability to lower health care expenditures, decrease wait times, enhance patient health outcomes and increase healthcare provider (HCP) satisfaction with care-delivery. To date, limited research has been conducted on patients’ experiences of receiving IPC. Using Connelly and Clandinin’s Narrative Inquiry qualitative research approach, three participants were invited to engage in a modified version of Schwind’s Narrative Reflective Process, a creative self-expression tool that utilizes storytelling, metaphor selection, drawing, creative writing and reflective dialogue. Participants shared their stories, and selected and drew metaphors that best represent for them their experiences of receiving IPC. They were also asked whether or not they believe person-centered care was delivered to them. Collected stories were analyzed as per the three common places of Narrative Inquiry: temporality, sociality and place, as well as the three levels of justification: personal, practical and social. Told stories were examined through the theoretical lens of the National Canadian Interprofessional Competency Framework. Three narrative threads emerged within this study: communication, interprofessional team composition, and patient within interprofessional team. The findings appear helpful to inform educators, HCP, policy makers, and researchers, as they strive to enhance person-centered interprofessional care practice. For patients, a clear opportunity for their voices to be heard has been outlined.
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O’ Regan, Michael, Noel B. Salazar, Jaeyeon Choe, and Dimitrios Buhalis. "Unpacking overtourism as a discursive formation through interdiscursivity." Tourism Review 77, no. 1 (December 28, 2021): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tr-12-2020-0594.
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Purpose As tourism destinations grapple with declines in tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 measures, scholarly debate on overtourism remains active, with discussions on solutions that could be enacted to contain the excessive regrowth of tourism and the return of “overtourism”. As social science holds an important role and responsibility to inform the debate on overtourism, this paper aims to understand overtourism by examining it as a discursive formation. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores recurring thematic threads in scholarly overtourism texts, given the phrases coherence as a nodal-point is partially held in place by a collective body of texts authored by a network of scholars who have invested in it. The paper uses interdiscursivity as an interpretative framework to identify overlapping thematic trajectories found in existing discourses. Findings Overtourism, as a discursive formation, determines what can and should be said about the self-evident “truths” of excessive tourist arrivals, the changes tourists bring to destinations and the range of discursive solutions available to manage or end overtourism. As the interpellation of these thematic threads into scholarly texts is based on a sense of crisis and urgency, the authors find that the themes contain rhetoric, arguments and metaphors that problematise tourists and construct them as objects in need of control and correction. Originality/value While the persistence of the discursive formation will be determined by the degree to which scholarly and other actors recognise themselves in it, this paper may enable overtourism scholars to become aware of the limits of their discursive domain and help them to expand the discourse or weave a new one.
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Apprich, Clemens. "Teilen und Herrschen: Die „digitale Stadt“ als Vorläuferin heutiger Medienpraxen." International Review of Information Ethics 15 (September 1, 2011): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/irie222.
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The beginning of the 1990s saw the rise of critical interest in examining the promises and risks posed by newly built network technologies in Europe. A key role within these discussions was played by the newly founded “Digital Cities”, whose stated goal was to provide the necessary infrastructure for self-governed communities. Not only was the shared use of technological infrastructure crucial to the invention of new forms of organization, interaction and participation, but also the active sharing of common goals and interests. For this reason the idea of the digital city with its virtual communities helped to implement new technologies by providing the necessary metaphors in order to translate technological developments into social practices. Hence, many of the technologies that make up Web 2.0 emerged in the 1990s, and with them also emerged the idea of social media, user-generated content or participatory platforms. By retracing the threads of current practices of sharing back into the early days of network building, the aim of this article is to critically examine new forms of network-based subjectivation which produce specific concepts of subjectivity within the digital environment.
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Nguyen Dinh, Viet. "Conceptual metaphor of “thread” in Vietnamese idioms and folk songs." Journal of Science Social Science 65, no. 8 (August 2020): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2020-0052.
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From the in-depth study of the concept of “thread” in Vietnamese idioms and folk songs, the article has established metaphorical structures of the concept of human\body part as “thread”; The predestined object is the “thread”; love\affection means “thread”; human activities\perceptions are activities with “threads”; human mood is considered as “thread”; talent\quality is a “thread”; The situation is the “thread” and thereby, this paper may contribute to further conceptual metaphor of cognitive linguistics illustration; and show a unique part of Vietnamese language - thinking - culture.
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Michałowska, Marianna. "The Art of (Up)Recycling: How Plastic Debris Has Become a Matter of Art?" Advances in Environmental and Engineering Research 02, no. 04 (June 11, 2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.21926/aeer.2104025.
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Since 1907, when Bakelite was invented, there has been a dramatic rise in the daily usage of plastic-like materials. Today, its negative impacts are a part of scientific studies and public debates. Art and artists play a significant role in these discussions. They mediate between the specialist content and public awareness. This study is dedicated to the artworks of artists using plastic waste collected from the seashore. I organized their works into three lines, within which artists have different threads of plastic interference in the natural environment. The artists examine: 1. The future of a planet dominated by plastic products, like Bonita Ely’s work from the Plasticus Progressus series that predict post-human existence. 2. The conceptual metaphors of contemporary culture, presented in Bounty, Pilfered by Pam Longobardi. It is an installation constructed from fishing debris. 3. The “nature-cultural” forms, i.e., organic constructions created by human interference and modified by nature, like Crochet Coral Reefs. The cooperation of volunteers with Margaret and Christine Wertheim produced this artwork. The artistic intervention creates new cultural and natural forms. This kind of artistic attitude towards waste is a formal and aesthetic innovation of various materials used in artistic practices. It also makes a significant commentary about the future of Earth. In a discussion about art producing unnecessary objects, recycling artistic material seems more ethical than using non-renewable materials obtained from natural sources.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Metaphors in threads"
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Lawrence, Kay Sheila. "Material Matters: Contemporary ‘Women’s Work’." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367033.
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This exegesis situates and explores my contemporary art practice that aims to address global ecological and social issues through the mediums of ‘women’s work’ and digital technologies. As used here, ‘women’s work’ refers to all needlework techniques and myriad other textile techniques (m)aligned with females, including but not limited to, embroidery, knitting, crochet, and binding. At the heart of the project is a sustained exploration of these mediums’ inherent materiality beyond their obvious aesthetic attributes. This is inextricably entwined with the processes of ‘women’s work’, the device of metaphor, and the body as both tool and subject.
The exegesis examines the position of textiles, particularly embroidery, in a contemporary context. It reflects on the process, meanings and potential strength contained in the textile traditions and processes that are used in this project, being aware of textile tropes and the potential for making meaning through their disruption. By merging the history, materiality and sensuality of textiles with the advances of digital technology, this research and its creative outputs offer a much richer language for self-expression and contemplation. Notions of impermanence, contingency and the fragility of our natural environment are validly addressed by using mediums that are similarly framed. Thus, metaphors of interconnecting threads—weaving, embroidery, knitting, binding—are applied across the studio practice. Digital mediums function as lines of communication, which are woven together like threads to connect the subject and viewers. The research determines that representation and engagement can be influenced profoundly through synergy with the embedded materiality of the chosen mediums.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Queensland College of Art
Arts, Education and Law
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Alharbi, Saad T. "Graphical and Non-speech Sound Metaphors in Email Browsing: An Empirical Approach. A Usability Based Study Investigating the Role of Incorporating Visual and Non-Speech Sound Metaphors to Communicate Email Data and Threads." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4244.
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This thesis investigates the effect of incorporating various information visualisation techniques and non-speech sounds (i.e. auditory icons and earcons) in email browsing. This empirical work consisted of three experimental phases. The first experimental phase aimed at finding out the most usable visualisation techniques for presenting email information. This experiment involved the development of two experimental email visualisation approaches which were called LinearVis and MatrixVis. These approaches visualised email messages based on a dateline together with various types of email information such as the time and the senders. The findings of this experiment were used as a basis for the development of a further email visualisation approach which was called LinearVis II. This novel approach presented email data based on multi-coordinated views. The usability of messages retrieval in this approach was investigated and compared to a typical email client in the second experimental phase. Users were required to retrieve email messages in the two experiments with the provided relevant information such as the subject, status and priority. The third experimental phase aimed at exploring the usability of retrieving email messages by using other type of email data, particularly email threads. This experiment investigated the synergic use of graphical representations with non-speech sounds (Multimodal Metaphors), graphical representations and textual display to present email threads and to communicate contextual information about email threads. The findings of this empirical study demonstrated that there is a high potential for using information visualisation techniques and non-speech sounds (i.e. auditory icons and earcons) to improve the usability of email message retrieval. Furthermore, the thesis concludes with a set of empirically derived guidelines for the use of information visualisation techniques and non-speech sound to improve email browsing.Taibah University in Medina and the Ministry of Higher Education in Saudi Arabia.
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Alharbi, Saad Talal. "Graphical and non-speech sound metaphors in email browsing : an empirical approach : a usability based study investigating the role of incorporating visual and non-speech sound metaphors to communicate email data and threads." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4244.
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This thesis investigates the effect of incorporating various information visualisation techniques and non-speech sounds (i.e. auditory icons and earcons) in email browsing. This empirical work consisted of three experimental phases. The first experimental phase aimed at finding out the most usable visualisation techniques for presenting email information. This experiment involved the development of two experimental email visualisation approaches which were called LinearVis and MatrixVis. These approaches visualised email messages based on a dateline together with various types of email information such as the time and the senders. The findings of this experiment were used as a basis for the development of a further email visualisation approach which was called LinearVis II. This novel approach presented email data based on multi-coordinated views. The usability of messages retrieval in this approach was investigated and compared to a typical email client in the second experimental phase. Users were required to retrieve email messages in the two experiments with the provided relevant information such as the subject, status and priority. The third experimental phase aimed at exploring the usability of retrieving email messages by using other type of email data, particularly email threads. This experiment investigated the synergic use of graphical representations with non-speech sounds (Multimodal Metaphors), graphical representations and textual display to present email threads and to communicate contextual information about email threads. The findings of this empirical study demonstrated that there is a high potential for using information visualisation techniques and non-speech sounds (i.e. auditory icons and earcons) to improve the usability of email message retrieval. Furthermore, the thesis concludes with a set of empirically derived guidelines for the use of information visualisation techniques and non-speech sound to improve email browsing.
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Grey, Thomas S. "Leading Motives and Narrative Threads. Notes on the «Leitfaden» Metaphor and the Critical Pre-History of the Wagnerian «Leitmotiv»." Bärenreiter Verlag, 1998. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A37120.
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Fries, Katherine. "Ariadne’s Thread - memory, interconnection and the poetic in contemporary art." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5709.
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Master of Visual ArtsThis Dissertation explores the metaphor of Ariadne’s thread in terms of interconnection, when an element from the everyday is used as a locus linking broader concepts of time and space. Such experiences and associations are reflected in the work of Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Doris Salcedo, Lucio Fontana, Richard Tuttle, Mona Hatoum, Simone Mangos, Anya Gallaccio and Yoshihiro Suda. In relation to my own work, the metaphor of interconnecting thread allows a sense of freedom and journey of discovery. My studio and related research are closely aligned in developing my understanding of interconnection, through my studio process of making and continuing experiences of looking at and interpreting others artists’ work.
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Helbert, Oriane. "Sur le fil : la juste mesure et le moindre souffle, ou les potentialités du déséquilibre et de la désorientation." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BOR30036/document.
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Ce travail doctoral en arts plastiques interroge les enjeux du non perçu de nos constructions spatiales, temporelles ou physiques et propose d’observer ce qui nous échappe, mais que nous vivons, ce qui nous touche ou nous traverse sans que nous le sentions. Il s’agit d’une étude du pouvoir discret de la contrepartie et de la manière dont certains gestes, certaines pratiques plastiques, poétiques, scientifiques la mettent en jeu. Une première séquence est consacrée aux métaphores du fil et du funambule, ils deviennent les modèles à partir desquels il est possible de penser les potentialités de l’inaperçu et d’envisager une forme de désorientation active. D’une part, la structure faite de fils de chaîne et de fils de trame du tissu permet de penser la valeur opératoire du vide. Cela, parce que c’est l’espace entre les fils de chaîne et les fils de trame qui induit la qualité de souplesse, de résistance ou d’opacité du tissu. C’est alors que l’interstice, l’intervalle ou l’entre-deux devient décisif. D’autre part, le funambule est celui qui agit sur le fil. Il adopte une posture risquée, éprise de déséquilibres, de doutes, d’hésitations, d’une attention qui doit être renouvelée à chaque pas au gré de ses sensations physiques et des conditions atmosphériques. Alors, les métaphores du fil et du funambule créent la scène imaginaire de nos propres désorientations face à ce qui se dérobe, face à ce qui, aux marges de nos espaces, de nos rythmes, de notre écoute ou de notre vision, ne se laisse pas facilement saisir. Une deuxième séquence s’efforce de pointer ce qui, dans notre environnement, fait de nous des funambules, ce qui nous déséquilibre ou nous désoriente. Quelles sont nos conditions physiques, physiologiques, psychologiques ou sociales du déséquilibre ? Qu’est-ce qui se loge au seuil de nos espaces, à la lisière de notre vision, au fond de notre écoute ? Comment certains gestes, certaines pratiques ouvrent notre regard à l’inaperçu de notre environnement et en révèlent les potentialités ?This dissertation in Fine Arts questioned about the undetected of our creations, in space, in time or physically and is an invitation to observe what is easily missed, that touches and goes through us, without our noticing. It is a study on subtle power and how it influences certain movements, plastic, poetic and scientific practices. The first part will focus on metaphors surrounding the thread and the acrobat, they become the model to reflect upon the potential of the unnoticeable and to consider an active form of disorientation. On the one hand, structure made of thread and wefts of fabric allow us to think the value of empty spaces since it is these gaps that are responsible for the suppleness, the resistance or the opacity of the fabric. Then the interstice, the interval or the in-between become essential. On the other hand, the tightrope walker is the one acting on the rope. He is in a risky position, struggling with disequilibrium, doubts, hesitations and he needs to renew his attention after each step according to his physical feelings and atmospheric conditions. The metaphors of the tightrope walker creates an imaginary scenario of our own disorientations in front of what evades us, at the edge of our space, rhythm, vision or listening, which is not easily perceptible. The second part points out elements in our environment which make us become tightrope walkers by inducing unsteadiness and disorientation. What are the physical, physiological, psychological or social conditions for disequilibrium ? What can be accommodated at the limit of our space, at the edge of our vision and in the depth of our hearing ? How certain actions broaden our vision towards the unnoticeable of our environment and to reveal its potential ?
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Fanelli, Robert L. "Network threat detection utilizing adaptive and innate immune system metaphors." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/20512.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.The NetTRIIAD prototype demonstrates a reduction in false positive detections and an improvement in positive predictive value, compared to that of a conventional misuse-based intrusion detection system. The prototype also demonstrates the capacity to detect novel threats. These results support the thesis that the hybrid model can overcome some of the limitations of other intrusion detection approaches. This research points to the usefulness of immune-inspired approaches for problems in the domain of information system security, and represents a step toward providing an immune system for self-protecting information systems.
This dissertation investigates a hybrid model for network threat detection that combines artificial immune system approaches with conventional intrusion detection methods. The research thesis asserts that a model combining artificial immune system and conventional methods can overcome limitations seen in conventional intrusion detection methods, such as false positive detections and difficulty adapting to novel threats. The Network Threat Recognition with Immune Inspired Anomaly Detection (NetTRIIAD) model presented here incorporates conventional intrusion detection and status monitoring methods as input for an artificial immune system based on the immunological Danger Model. This work details implementation of a prototype NetTRIIAD system and experimentation on a series of intrusion detection scenarios including both known and newly created threats.
This dissertation makes several contributions to knowledge in the areas of artificial immune systems and information system security. This work presents a novel methodology for applying artificial immune system techniques to a complex information system security problem. It also presents a working model for integrating artificial immune systems and conventional approaches to network threat detection. A further contribution is to the body of knowledge concerning the relatively new field of Danger Model inspired artificial immune systems and its application to solving complex problems.
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Wu, Chen-Le, and 吳宸樂. "Metaphorically Scaring Sayings:The Effects of Visual Metaphor in Threat Persuasion Advertising." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zvuzcg.
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Lichy, Marta. "Metafora i proksymizacja w analizie dyskursu zagrożenia pośredniego - studium retoryki administracji amerykańskiej wobec konfliktu rosyjsko-ukraińskiego." Phd diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11089/11729.
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The research goal of the dissertation is the analysis of the discursive formulation of indirect threat in political discourse with American administration discourse regarding Russia and its actions in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict as the newly-arisen case study. More precisely, the thesis examines how Barack Obama’s rhetoric relies on metaphor and proximisation to the end of the formulation of the indirect threat that Russia constitutes to the US, the aim behind which is to prove the applicability of the two – both as rhetorical strategies and methodological apparatuses – in the indirect threat-focused discourses as well as hypothesize on further prospects of proximisation studies in yet different contexts of political discourse and beyond it. The dissertation offers an overview of the roots and current state of knowledge and use of metaphor and proximisation out of which it employs the tripartition of metaphorical roles in Lakoff’s (1991) fairy-tale scenario, Critical Metaphor Analysis of Charteris-Black (2004, 2006), Wieczorek’s (2013) P-D-P (Perspective-Distanciation-Proximisation) model and finally the S-T-A (Spatial-Temporal-Axiological) proximisation model by Cap (2013). In the empirical part concerned with the use of metaphor the twenty (main) metaphors or source domains found in Obama’s administration discourse (comprising seventy-five texts of various kind obtained from the White House official website in 2014) are analysed against their contribution to the tripartition of metaphorical roles assigned respectively to Russia as the villain, Ukraine as the victim and America as the hero. The proximisation analysis is led through the gradation of the threat that Russia constitutes to entities on the subsequent layers of the Deictic Centre and in its three aspects: spatial, temporal and axiological, paying special attention to their cooperation for the superior goal of legitimisation of America’s leadership in the world, reminiscing of the US war-on-terror and policeman-nation notions in Bush’s post 9/11 interventionist rhetoric. The final result of the analysis, pinpointing values, ideals and rules as the pivotal element of America-Russia opposition and the starting point for the proximised threat, whose natural progression is the threat in spatial terms, allows to draw more far-reaching suggestions as to the applicability of proximisation in any discourse thanks to its axiological aspect that is never-exhaustive in face of prevalence and boundlessness of differences in value systems.Projekt współfinansowany ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego (Poddziałanie 4.1.1 Programu Operacyjnego Kapitał Ludzki: „Kształcenie Kadr dla Potrzeb Rynku Flexicurity i Gospodarki Opartej na Wiedzy – Oferta Kierunków Nauk Humanistycznych”)
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Stuart, Amanda Graham. "The Dingo in the colonial imagination." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109295.
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This thesis is comprised of two parts: a Studio Research component with accompanying Exegesis (66%), and a Dissertation (33%). The Dissertation provides the historical theoretical component that informs the Studio Research and Exegesis, entitled The Dingo in the Colonial Imagination.This body of work investigates the tensions between humans and animals that share boundaries. It focuses on the terse relations between humans, dingoes and wild dogs in southeastern Australia. Ideological and practical themes emerged through the studio-based and theoretical research, which spans a range of disciplines including art, science, culture and history. At its core is how humans and undomesticated animals share arbitrary boundaries and suffer the transgression of these boundaries. Primary field research informed the studio and theoretical aspects of the project. It involved consultation with individuals and agencies affected by dingoes and wild dogs in interface zones where private and government managed lands intersect. The 30,000 word dissertation traces colonial visual representations of the Australian native dog during the century that spans early European settlement to Federation. It follows perceptions of the dingo as it is imagined and encountered by European settlers. The dingo's guise ranges from scientific curiosity, object of desire, symbol of wilderness, metaphor for a dying race and as an enemy that threatens the social and economic fabric of the colonial project. The studio work amplifies the influence of these colonial perceptions on contemporary attitudes to dingoes. It follows a trajectory of the disappearing dingo in its representational form, to its implied remnant presence within the farmers' psyche. Early studio work explored a range of materials and practices, encompassing sculptural and drawing strategies, and took its cue from a macabre ritual of animal shaming in remote regional Australia, the so-called 'dog trees', that display the carcasses of one or multiple dingoes and wild dogs. The studio work has culminated in a large-scale sculptural installation, designed to pare back the visual language to its essential elements. This work incorporates the dissolution of the dingo form, which becomes absorbed into the personal objects embedded into the farmers' private territory. The poetic objects that form the final sculptural work presented for examination, Lines of desire, become metaphors for the dingo's capacity to survive and unsettle the rural subconscious.
Books on the topic "Metaphors in threads"
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Martens, Ekkehard. Der Faden der Ariadne: Über kreatives Denken und Handeln. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1991.
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Martens, Ekkehard. Der Faden der Ariadne, oder, Warum alle Philosophen spinnen. Leipzig: Reclam, 2000.
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Holyoak, Keith J. Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry. MIT Press, 2019.
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Holyoak, Keith J. Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry. MIT Press, 2019.
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Holyoak, Keith J. Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry. MIT Press, 2019.
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Wasdin, Katherine. Cultivating Romance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869090.003.0004.
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This chapter demonstrates the nuances of plant metaphors in wedding and love poetry. Plant metaphors in love poetry praise beautiful youths by equating them with flowers threatened by the passage of time. Such threats are meant to be warnings to recalcitrant lovers. In the wedding discourse, flowers risk being violently destroyed and symbolize peaceful independence for female speakers. While floral metaphors do not permit safe interaction beyond aesthetic appreciation, vine metaphors emphasize physical entanglement and fruitful productivity. Accounts of nuptial productivity use imagery and terminology connected with fruit, not grain crops, which further distinguishes the discourse of the wedding ritual from the agricultural language of the marriage. Plant imagery at times alludes to specific literary predecessors, but may also refer to generally recognizable commonplaces that are part of a larger cultural matrix of natural symbols.
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van der Vlies, Andrew. Towards a Critical Nostalgia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793762.003.0005.
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South African-born, Scottish-resident author Zoë Wicomb is a key postapartheid literary figure; her oeuvre complicates assumptions about locatedness, ethnicity, and cosmopolitanism. This chapter reads her novels—David’s Story (2000), Playing in the Light (2006), October (2014)—and select short fiction—in You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One That Got Away (2008); ‘In Search of Tommie’ (2010)—to consider how Wicomb stages text itself as a privileged space within which to hold open the promise of the ‘loose end’ (a recurring metaphor), exploring its potential to unravel older formations in the social fabric to suggest new narrative and relational threads. It argues that the prevalence of queer subjects in her fiction mirrors Wicomb’s formally ‘queer’ strategies, including meta- and intertextuality, which offer more than the textual equivalent of characters’ displacements or the author’s own restless transnationalism (here October’s debts to Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home are canvassed).
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Joshi, Dr Divya. Matryoshka. Clever Fox Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52184/cfox.2022.1185.
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Matryoshka is an ensemble of 100 poems, closely knit and woven together with the thread of creativity and cosmos. The narrative is constructed around four sections ‘Pretenses’, ‘Silence’, ‘Romance ‘and ‘Siblings’. Individual poems communicate a discrete story, yet harmonize with all others like a whole. Stacking dolls are associated with family and fertility in the Russian culture and symbolize the unity between mind, body, spirit, heart and soul. According to Indian philosophy all matter is composed of five basic elements — panchamahabhutas — which inhere the properties of earth (prithvi), water (jala), fire (tejas), wind (vayu) and space (akasha). This collection is about the inextricable bond between Man and Nature, wherein the metaphor of nesting dolls Matryoshka in the title represents Prithvi (mother Earth) and the four sections as elements of the cosmic creation. Matryoshka is a unique collection of poems unfolding the journey of life in its kaleidoscopic forms.
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Seligman, Adam B., and Robert P. Weller. How Things Count as the Same. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888718.001.0001.
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How do human beings craft enduring social groups and long-lasting relationships? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? How do we live in harmony with groups that may not share that sense of common fate? Such relationships lie at the heart of the problems of pluralism that increasingly face so many nations today. This book answers a seemingly simple question, which forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals: What counts as the same? Note that “counting as” the same differs from “being” the same. Counting as the same is thus not an empirical question about how much or how little one person shares with another or one event shares with a previous event. Nevertheless, as humans we construct sameness all the time. In the process, of course, we also construct difference. Creating sameness and difference, however, leaves us with the perennial problem of how to live with difference instead of seeing it as a threat. In this book we suggest that there are multiple ways in which we can count things as the same and that each of them fosters different kinds of group dynamics and different sets of benefits and risks for the creation of plural societies. While there might be many ways to understand how people construct sameness, three seem especially important and form the focus of our analysis: we call them memory, mimesis, and metaphor.
Book chapters on the topic "Metaphors in threads"
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Penwarden, Sarah. "Weaving threads into a basket." In Narrative and Metaphor in Education, 249–62. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429459191-18.
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Backman, Brian. "Beginning with Metaphor." In Thinking in Threes, 61–62. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003239048-37.
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Pouliot, Vincent. "Reflexive Mirror: Everything Takes Place As If Threats Were Going Global." In Metaphors of Globalization, 34–49. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230590687_3.
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Taylor, Ashley. "The Metaphor of Civic Threat: Intellectual Disability and Education for Citizenship." In Critical Readings in Interdisciplinary Disability Studies, 53–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35309-4_5.
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Cummins, Emily Pierce. "“The Intricate Weavings of Unnumbered Threads”: Personal and Societal Trauma in Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream." In Critical Essays on the Writings of Lillian Smith, 67–86. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496836847.003.0004.
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In this chapter, Emily Pierce Cummins employs trauma theory as a framework for understanding the content, form, and effects of Killers of the Dream, elaborating on the literary strategies at work in the autobiographical tome. Cummins argues that Killers itself (its writing as well as its reading) serves as a mechanism for processing Southern social trauma, both personal and communal. The chapter investigates Smith’s powerful use of the thread/fabric and ghost metaphors to develop the reader’s understanding of Southern trauma. Smith, an upper-class white Southerner, was viewed by many as a traitor for her civil rights writing and activism, yet through the use of these metaphors, she effectively guides readers through the complicated factors of Southern identity and argues convincingly that healing requires processing historical and societal trauma, a process as important for whites as for blacks.
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Finn, Ed. "What Is an Algorithm?" In What Algorithms Want. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035927.003.0002.
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This chapter defines the algorithm as a critical concept across four intellectual strands, beginning with its foundations in computer science and the notion of “effective computability.” The second strand considers cybernetics and ongoing debates about embodiment, abstraction, cognition, and information theory. The third explores magic and its overlap with symbolism, engaging with notions of software, “sourcery,” and the power of metaphors to represent reality. The fourth draws in the long history of technicity and humanity’s coevolution with our cultural tools. Synthesizing these threads, the chapter offers a definition of the algorithm as culture machine in the context of process and implementation, and closes with a summary of the essential facets of algorithmic reading and a brief glimpse of algorithmic imagination.
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Cain, Emily R. "“In an Enigma”." In Mirrors of the Divine, 163—C7N1. Oxford University PressNew York, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663370.003.0008.
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Abstract This chapter examines the patterns that have emerged from the study to reveal both the shared and the diverging assumptions about one’s relationship to the world and to God through vision’s link to the intersecting threads of agency, identity, and epistemology. Each author enters this discourse from a unique context and with a particular set of assumptions to describe the human in relation to the world and to the divine, but each engages the shared project of a discursive struggle over claims of Christian identity, authority, and epistemology through philosophical and theological speculations of vision of God. First, the visual metaphor develops chronologically, starting with literal vision and moving to metaphorical vision before branching into a more complicated collection of visual metaphors. Second, along similar lines, writing about vision shifts from direct vision (i.e., How can Christians see God?) to indirect or mirrored vision (i.e., In what kinds of reflections can Christians glimpse God?). Third, writing on vision begins by emphasizing one’s difference from the world and then moves to describing one’s connection to God. In each case, writing about vision and mirrors reveals deeper assumptions about the subjective nature of one’s location in the world and one’s relationship to God. Finally, another pattern emerges geographically, across Eastern and Western authors, which maps onto diverging assumptions about the nature of enigma.
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Jackson, Leonie B. "Natural and Supernatural Forces." In The Monstrous & the Vulnerable, 51–82. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197647332.003.0003.
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This chapter considers the role of metaphor in news reporting about terrorism and shows how metaphors of natural forces, animals and the supernatural were used to represent the Islamic State group in general and the "jihadi brides" in particular. All these metaphors had two things in common: they dehumanized the women in question, and they constructed the "jihadi brides" as a grave threat that required urgent intervention. By importing knowledge about these domains, metaphors enabled the establishment of particular perceptions about these women. At the same time they pointed to how the problem of the "jihadi brides" should be evaluated and managed, opening up and closing down possibilities for action and making some strategies of management appear natural while others were made to appear absurd.
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Mccabe, Allyssa. "Chapter 9 Narrative threads of metaphor." In The Problem of Meaning - Behavioral and Cognitive Perspectives, 347–75. Elsevier, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0166-4115(97)80141-0.
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Blumenberg, Hans. "Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality." In History, Metaphors, Fables, 117–26. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501732829.003.0006.
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This chapter looks at Hans Blumenberg's “Preliminary Remarks on the Concept of Reality” (1974). For the concept of reality, one cannot use the etymology of the words “real” and “reality” as a guiding thread for its conceptual history. The concept of reality is an “implicative predicate.” The reason for this is its predominantly pragmatic function. The guiding thread toward the concept of reality is any form of “realism,” albeit not chiefly that realism, which calls itself so. The rule that real is what is not unreal urges one to take a detour via that which in each case is deemed unreal and is rejected as such. The concept of reality's indeterminacy and historicity is based on the very fact that the ways of being unreal prove to be inexhaustible. To expose what is illusionary never guarantees that the “remainder” of what is not exposed in this way is the permanently and reliably real. Put theoretically, falsification is the nonattainable par excellence.
Conference papers on the topic "Metaphors in threads"
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Albarrán González, Diana. "Weaving decolonising metaphors: Backstrap loom as design research methodology." In LINK 2022. Tuwhera Open Access, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2022.v3i1.186.
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Decolonising approaches have challenged conventional Western research creating spaces for Indigenous, culturally-appropriate, and context-based research alternatives. Decolonising design movements have also challenged dominant Anglo-Eurocentric approaches giving visibility to other ways of thinking and doing design(s). Indigenous peoples have considered metaphors as important sense-making tools for knowledge transmission and research across different communities. In these contexts, Indigenous craft-design-arts have been used as metaphorical research methodologies and are valuable sources of knowledge generation, bringing concepts from the unseen to the physical realm manifested through our hands and bodies. In particular, Indigenous women have used the embodied practices of weaving and textile making as research methodology metaphors connecting the mind, body, heart and spirit. Situated in the highlands of Chiapas, this research proposes backstrap loom weaving as a decolonial design research methodology aligned with ancestral knowledge from Mesoamerica. For Mayan Tsotsil and Tseltal peoples, jolobil or backstrap loom weaving is a biocultural knowledge linked to the weaver’s well-being as part of a community and is a medium to reconnect with Indigenous ancestry and heritage. Resisting colonisation, this living textile knowledge and practice involve collective memory, adapting and evolving through changes in time. Mayan textiles reflect culture, identity and worldview captured in the intricate patterns, colours, symbols, and techniques. Jolobil as a novel methodological proposal, interweaves decolonial theory, visual-digital-sensorial ethnography, co-design, textiles as resistance, Mayan cosmovision and collective well-being. Nevertheless, it requires the integration of onto-epistemologies from Abya Yala as fundamental approaches like sentipensar and corazonar. Jolobil embodies the interweaving of ancestral knowledge with creative practice where the symbolism of the components is combined with new research interpretations. In this sense, the threads of the warp (urdimbre) representing patrones sentipensantes findings are woven with the weft (trama) as the embodied reflexivity of sentipensar-corazonando. As the weaver supports the loom around her waist, the cyclical back and forth motion of weaving jolobil functions as analysis and creative exploration through sentirpensar and corazonar creating advanced reflexive textile narratives. The interweaving of embodied metaphors and textiles with sentipensar, corazonar, mind, body, heart and spirit, contribute to the creation of decolonising alternatives to design research towards pluriversality, aligned with ways of being and doing research as Mesoamerican and Indigenous women.
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Damiano, Rossana, Vincenzo Lombardo, Antonio Lieto, and Davide Borra. "Mind the red thread! 3D metaphors for cultural heritage visualization." In 2015 Digital Heritage. IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/digitalheritage.2015.7419522.
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Zabotkina, Vera. "NEGATIVE - POSITIVE BALANCE: CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS IN SPEECHES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS (�THREAT OVERCOMING� PERSUASIVE STRATEGY)." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018. STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/3.6/s14.054.
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Scallion, Mark, Mark Scallion, Samantha Pitts, and Samantha Pitts. "REFRAMING THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONVERSATION: USING VALUES, EXPLANATORY CHAINS AND METAPHOR TO INCREASE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE CHANGE." In Managing risks to coastal regions and communities in a changing world. Academus Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.31519/conferencearticle_5b1b939db8ece2.95671507.
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Sea level rise caused by climate change is a significant threat to communities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Audubon, in conjunction with NNOCCI, has crafted a locally applicable methodology for successfully sharing climate messages with the public. If enough voices are trained in proven climate communication techniques, the discourse around climate change will change to be productive, creative and solutions focused. Climate communicators and scientists frequently encounter two pitfalls. The first is assuming people have any understanding of climate science. Although studies indicate many feel it is an important issue, many are largely misinformed about the causes and ramifications of climate change. The second is the tendency to talk about climate in the context of unproductive cultural models. A good example of this is graphically highlighting the dire situation that is faced by polar bears, humans or other species, which lead people to quickly disengage from the issue as “too big and scary to deal with.” Through the use of solid explanatory chains, good climate communicators can fill cognitive gaps and avoid unproductive cultural models. Skilled framers direct the conversation towards helpful cultural models and explain climate issues through step-by-step cause and effect and strategically deployed explanatory metaphors. Skilled framers start the conversation with solutions in mind.
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Scallion, Mark, Mark Scallion, Samantha Pitts, and Samantha Pitts. "REFRAMING THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONVERSATION: USING VALUES, EXPLANATORY CHAINS AND METAPHOR TO INCREASE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE CHANGE." In Managing risks to coastal regions and communities in a changing world. Academus Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.21610/conferencearticle_58b4315b657bc.
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Sea level rise caused by climate change is a significant threat to communities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Audubon, in conjunction with NNOCCI, has crafted a locally applicable methodology for successfully sharing climate messages with the public. If enough voices are trained in proven climate communication techniques, the discourse around climate change will change to be productive, creative and solutions focused. Climate communicators and scientists frequently encounter two pitfalls. The first is assuming people have any understanding of climate science. Although studies indicate many feel it is an important issue, many are largely misinformed about the causes and ramifications of climate change. The second is the tendency to talk about climate in the context of unproductive cultural models. A good example of this is graphically highlighting the dire situation that is faced by polar bears, humans or other species, which lead people to quickly disengage from the issue as “too big and scary to deal with.” Through the use of solid explanatory chains, good climate communicators can fill cognitive gaps and avoid unproductive cultural models. Skilled framers direct the conversation towards helpful cultural models and explain climate issues through step-by-step cause and effect and strategically deployed explanatory metaphors. Skilled framers start the conversation with solutions in mind.