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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.
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Rodionova, Oxana P. "Features of Chinese Animalistic Prose on the Example of Gerel-Сhimeg Black Crane’s Novel Black Flame." Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 13, no. 2 (2021): 137–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2021.202.
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The article examines the themes, images, and artistic features of the animalistic novel Black Flame (2006) by the Chinese writer of Mongolian origin Gerel-Сhimeg Black Сrane’s. The general and comparative analysis of the novel not only reveals the peculiarities of the author’s individual style, but also characterizes the general trends in the development of animalistic prose in China and abroad. Respect for the laws of nature, as well as the theme of love and devotion of an animal to man, run through the entire novel Black Flame as red threads. A characteristic feature of the work is the combination of scientific and artistic styles. Such qualities of the writer as truthfulness and subtle understanding of animal psychology are also remarkable. Among the features of Black Crane’s artistic style, one can note the poetic language enriched with original metaphors and epithets. Instead of the usual narration of the characters’ actions, Gerel-Chimeg focuses on the physical and mental sensations evoked by these actions and transmitted to the readers. The writer does not humanize animals, nevertheless, he manages to penetrate their inner world through the use of a rich arsenal of smells, sounds and even tactile sensations. Today, Gerel-Chimeg is an original and iconic figure among Chinese writers of this genre. The article emphasizes that animalistic literature of such a level plays an important role both in the study of the wild world as well as in the education of humanity in people. The novel Black Flame not only enriches our knowledge of nature and animals of northern and western China, but also evokes a powerful emotional response from the readers.
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Engelberg, J. "How many pounds of oxygen do we "eat" each day?" Advances in Physiology Education 271, no. 6 (December 1996): S43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/advances.1996.271.6.s43.
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As teachers we feel the need to do more than merely teach basic facts and concepts. We want to make the subject matter more relevant; we would like to help integrate the various threads of the students' education and life experiences; and, finally, we wish to increase the students' interest and involvement in the learning process. There is the temptation, however, when thinking along these lines, to consider the use of time-consuming, complex methods of approach. These might involve slide presentations, videos, special lectures, special assignments, student, reports, etc: The very complexity of these approaches often reduces their effectiveness. Moreover, the time and effort required often keeps us from attempting them more than once or twice. Are simpler and more effective approaches to enrichment possible? Reflecting on our own education, many of us may recall the disproportionate impact of some revealing aside thrown by a teacher unexpectedly into an otherwise mundane lecture or discussion: perhaps a short, penetrating observation providing an unexpected perspective on what was being discussed, a bolt of lightening that briefly illuminated the dim landscape of the classroom. This we may remember when much from the course has been totally forgotten. These jewels of thought--epiphanies--can be shared by teachers to enrich, enlighten, and refresh their students and each other. The jewels we speak of need not be precious or rare. Indeed, the metaphors "a bolt of lightening" and "jewels" may mislead by their intensity and drama. Is it not in the often unexamined, simple, and humble all around us that wisdom can be found? The following is an example.
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Nikoriak, Nataliia. "Metaphorical Codes of S. Parajanov’s Movie Text “Sayat Nova” (1969)." Pitannâ lìteraturoznavstva, no. 101 (July 9, 2020): 209–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31861/pytlit2020.101.209.
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The article under studies deals with theoretical and practical discourse of the issue of cinema metaphor. It emphasizes that certain investigations of the issue are carried out in terms of theory, in the aspect of typology of cinema metaphors. The article also analyzes the ways of their creation and their impact on the recipient; in the cases of moving to the practical plane, particular attention is drawn to the analysis of either individual cinema metaphors or to the peculiarities of cinema metaphors of individual authors. The film “Sayat Nova” (“The Color of Pomegranates”) has been considered in the above aspect. The author of the article distinguishes a few detailed cinema metaphors that most clearly demonstrate the deep receptive potential of visual reading of this movie text. The key metaphorical codes in this case are wine, pomegranate, water, book, ladder, ritual, sheep, dream, vision, thread, lace, and poet. Particular emphasis has been laid on the fact that the he author's methods of creating cinema metaphors are polymorphic in their nature. Some of them contain a deeply conceptual, symbolic meaning, which is formed due to the context and can be expanded because of additional connotations arising during the perception of “cinema metaphors”. Others are formed as a result of a montage combination of two or more frames, through the use of purely cinematic means (for instance, shooting angle, close-up, sound, color) or involvement of viewer’s receptive experience in the course of perception.
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Stenvall, Maija. "An actor or an undefined threat?" Studying Identity: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges 2, no. 2 (November 18, 2003): 361–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.2.2.10ste.
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The paper studies the use of the word terrorist in the dispatches of two major international news agencies, AP and Reuters. It can be assumed that the attacks on September 11, 2001, have changed the role of terrorist and affected the meaning of the word. While terrorists have been traditionally construed as violent actors, they are now, more and more, seen as a static threat. The paper examines three collocations — terrorist attack, terrorist threat and terrorist suspect — as grammatical metaphors (cf. Halliday 1994); the collocation terrorist network is analysed as a conceptual metaphor (cf. Lakoff and Johnson 1980). Linguistic strategies manifested in the data form a pattern that I call “anti-terrorism discourse”. Modality and general vagueness of the language are conspicuous features in the news agency dispatches on terrorism; the reports focus on what may happen or may have happened. This can be argued to undermine the factuality of news agency discourse.
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McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa J. "The role of metaphor in shaping the identity and agenda of the United Nations: The imagining of an international community and international threat." Discourse & Communication 5, no. 4 (November 2011): 393–412. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481311418099.
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This article examines the representation of the United Nations in speeches delivered by its Secretary-General (SG). It focuses on the role of metaphor in constructing a common ‘imagining’ of international diplomacy and legitimizing an international organizational identity. The SG legitimizes the organization, in part, through the delegitimization of agents/actions/events constructed as threatening to the international community and to the well-being of mankind. It is a desire to combat the forces of menace or evil which are argued to motivate and determine the organizational agenda. This is predicated upon an international ideology of humanity in which difference is silenced and ‘working towards the common good’ is emphasized. This is exploited to rouse emotions and legitimize institutional power. Polarization and antithesis are achieved through the employment of metaphors designed to enhance positive and negative evaluations. The article further points to the constitutive, persuasive and edifying1 power of topic and situationally motivated metaphors in speech-making.
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Sanders, Martie. "Linguistic threats associated with metaphors about evolution." Curriculum Matters 10 (June 1, 2014): 152–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.18296/cm.0161.
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Doyle, Lynn H. "Inclusion: The Unifying Thread for Fragmented Metaphors." Journal of School Leadership 14, no. 4 (July 2004): 352–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105268460401400401.
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Rodehau-Noack, Johanna. "War as disease: biomedical metaphors in prevention discourse." European Journal of International Relations 27, no. 4 (October 24, 2021): 1020–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540661211055537.
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Previous research has examined biomedical metaphors in discourses on military intervention, counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism. Starting from the observation that such metaphors also occur in the contemporary conflict prevention discourse, this article inquires into their intellectual origins and implications for the understanding of war and prevention. Drawing on archival analysis, it finds that they manifest in two ways in prevention discourse. In the cataclysmic notion, war is likened to an epidemic or plague. This metaphor was popularised by Christian pacifists in the 19th century and carried forth into 20th-century prevention documents. The more recent risk factor notion is couched in terms of enabling conditions for threats to the body politic. By engaging imagery on immunity and public health, it draws parallels between social and political organisation and functions of the body. The article argues that while both notions of biomedical metaphors of war in conflict prevention discourse are firmly rooted in modernist thinking, this intellectual legacy manifests differently. The cataclysmic notion associates war and disease with barbarism and thus paints prevention as a civilisational objective. The risk factor notion, on the contrary, represents war as a technico-scientific problem and thus shifts the focus towards governing and controlling war through knowledge and technology. Furthermore, both notions converge in the idea of a body politic that is to be protected and in the implicit assumption of world order in which war-as-disease is a temporary deviation from the ‘healthy norm’, while peace-as-health is the desired and default state of affairs.
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Eskandari, Safoura. "Language Discourse in James Joyce’s Short Stories The Grace and The Araby: A Cultural Studies." Budapest International Research and Critics in Linguistics and Education (BirLE) Journal 3, no. 1 (February 21, 2020): 411–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birle.v3i1.837.
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This study aims to investigate how the notion of language as cultural practices which construct social and cultural products function in James Joyce selected short stories, The Grace and The Araby within the framework of cultural materialism. Language is major concern of cultural studies and language is as the symbol of power. Language in literary texts plays a major role in constructing meaning and reflecting the author`s intention. James Joyce could be placed among the most dominant cultural authors whose concern is the material life, social class, social identity and cultural crisis. As an outstanding author, Joyce is well known for his typical depiction, musical decoration as well as his sticking to proper cultural and social materials and issues such as religious matters. His selected short stories of Dubliners, revolve around the lifestyle of the Irish middle-class in Dublin around the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Joyce is not so much a writer as he is a painter of words. His works appear simplistic at first glance, but under analysis they reveal the inner world of a character and the reality of the common man through symbols, metaphors, and sensory analysis. Dublin is the city of silence which threads its way through the lives of the Dubliners, for this reason Joyce‘s characters are presented in a silent state. Such silence denotes the sterility of communication and the absence of the art of conversation. Most of Dubliners characters are portrayed as having the ability of verbal activity and they can speak, yet in most cases this ability fails them and they become tongue-tied .The only way which is left for them is speak in a whispering voice. In the modern age, life has completely changed and the city has become a modernized one. This latter is the epitome of such change that has a great effect upon the modern life, bringing with it the trauma and frustration of modern failure. Joyce’s attempts to harness the effects of language and, increasingly with time, languages, may arguably be selected as the feature of his writing which mostly conditioned its technical transformations. Language is only one of those practices implicated in the symptoms of the crisis of late capitalist society. Faced with the ideological mystification of personal lives, Raymond Williams stressed the imperative of establishing connections by emphasizing the role of means of communication, he speaks of "productive communication in shaping community.
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Moullagaliev, Narkiz K., and Lyutsiya G. Khismatullina. "Metaphors in Media Discourse on Migration." Journal of History Culture and Art Research 6, no. 5 (November 28, 2017): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v6i5.1242.
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<p>The paper deals with the problems of cognitive linguistic discourse and comparative analysis studies of metaphor as a means of representing migration in mass media. It presents the most productive metaphoric models, shaping the concept of “migration”, that function in printed and electronic media discourses of Great Britain, USA and Russia in 2016-2017. A comparative analysis of metaphorical models representing migration in British, American and Russian media discourses has shown that in media discourses on the migration of 2016-2017, regularly three high-frequency and productive metaphorical models operate: hydronymic, military and morbid. Images of these metaphorical models are united by vectors of anxiety, despair, threats to life and have negative conceptual potential.</p>
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Su, Yujie. "Chinese Experiential-Based Conceptual Metaphors in Terms of Thread." OALib 04, no. 08 (2017): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1103749.
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McAleavy, BA (Hons), MSc, PhD, Tony. "Perceiving the effects of scale on command and control: A conceptual metaphor approach." Journal of Emergency Management 18, no. 2 (March 1, 2020): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5055/jem.2020.0453.
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Objective: This study investigates emergency manager’s perceptions of Command and Control to answer the question “how do emergency managers metaphorically interpret Command and Control?”Design: An interpretivist paradigm, verbatim transcription, and content and linguistic metaphor analysis were used within this study.Setting: Fifteen interviews per country, three per selected organization were conducted in the United Kingdom and the United States of America.Subjects: Purposive sampling identified suitable participants from key organizations engaged in emergency management at local, subnational, and national levels.Interventions: The study consisted of 30 semi-structured face-to-face interviews conducted within the work-place.Main Outcome Measure(s): The inductive and qualitative nature of the study resulted in a 300,000-word corpus of data from which the two posited theories emerged.Results: The UK Gold, Silver, Bronze model and the USA Incident Command System were considered tried and tested although they are conceptually misunderstood. Moreover, they are believed to be essential, scalable, and flexible. Able to manage the perceived chaos of increasing scales of disaster which contradicts the existing literature.Conclusions: Two conceptual metaphors are theorized to create flexible learning tools that challenge the entrenched nature of these findings. Command and Control as a Candle demonstrates the effects of increasing disaster scale on systemic efficacy. Command and Control as a Golden Thread illustrates problems caused by time, distance, resource depletion, and infrastructure degradation. These tools engender deeper more critical perspectives by linking theory to practice through metaphor to engender perceptual change.
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Peterson, Jordan B., and Colin G. DeYoung. "Metaphoric threat is more real than real threat." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23, no. 6 (December 2000): 992–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x00784020.
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Dreams represent threat, but appear to do so metaphorically more often than realistically. The metaphoric representation of threat allows it to be conceptualized in a manner that is constant across situations (as what is common to all threats begins to be understood and portrayed). This also means that response to threat can come to be represented in some way that works across situations. Conscious access to dream imagery, and subsequent social communication of that imagery, can facilitate this generalized adaptive process, by allowing the communicative dreamer access to the problem solving resources of the community.[Revonsuo; Solms]
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Wile, Lawrence. "The Broken Thread of Asian Culture." Asian Journal of Social Science Studies 3, no. 2 (April 9, 2018): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.20849/ajsss.v3i2.402.
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Sociobiology derives its atheistic stance from the Darwinian framework of purposeless, naturally selections of random variations of matter in motion. However, explanatory gaps in sociobiology’s explanation of religion, from the initial cosmic singularity to free will, invite a Divine foot in the door. By interpreting yogic, Taoist and Kabbalistic descriptions of the anatomical connection between the human and the divine not as primitive, poetic metaphors but as interoceptions of a little-known, enigmatic, epigenetically suppressed, structure running through the central axis of the central nervous system called Reissner’s fiber. I propose a new theistic sociobiological theory of religion. Justified belief in this theory could epigenetically reawaken the suppressed Reissner’s fiber genes and begin the empirical testing of the theory.
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Walsh, Lucas, Anne Keary, and Joanne Gleeson. "Non-linear Transitions: An Intergenerational Longitudinal Study of Today’s Young Women in Education and Work." YOUNG 27, no. 5 (March 4, 2019): 468–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1103308818817632.
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Labour markets are characterized by uncertainty and youth transitions by change. This longitudinal study of three generations of Australian women from nine families suggests something more nuanced, featuring continuities and discontinuities threaded throughout the lives of daughters, mothers, grandmothers and aunts interviewed over three decades. Discussion focuses on the most recent generation of interviewees, following some of the threads of their testimonies back through previous generations of family to reveal similarities and some differences in their navigation of education and work. The findings suggest that the pathways of women today are more fluid but no more disrupted than previous generations, urging continued wider reflection on the concept of transition in youth studies and related relational, spatial and temporal dimensions of study and working life. Though problematic, the transitions metaphor still has meaning in the non-linear journeys of women as they navigate their ways from school to post-school life.
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Simonsen, Sandra. "Bacteria, garbage, insects and pigs." Journal of Language and Politics 19, no. 6 (July 20, 2020): 938–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlp.19109.sim.
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Abstract The present paper focuses on the symbolic meanings of metaphors and their potential social effects. Specifically, it examines the case of the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox “Ḥardakim” poster campaign distributed throughout Ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel in 2013. Following social group theory, the paper interprets the symbolic meanings of the main metaphors in the campaign in order to reconstruct the lifeworld of this religious group. On that basis, it offers a discussion of how metaphors were strategically utilized in order to draw social boundaries, uphold social norms and sanction group members who deviate from those. The paper’s empirical contribution is a case study of how symbolic meanings of metaphors as a part of propagandistic discourse targets and exploits social identities in order to mobilize collective emotions thereby provoking certain actions. It contributes theoretically by arguing that deeming norm-deviant group members internal threats is an efficient propaganda tool for maintaining intragroup behavioral codes.
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Ardianto, Ardik. "Animal Metaphors in Indonesian and English." HUMAYA Jurnal Hukum Humaniora Masyarakat dan Budaya 2, no. 2 (December 11, 2022): 84–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.33830/humayafhisip.v2i2.3949.
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This paper is a contrastive semantic analysis exploring the concept of animal metaphors in Indonesian and English by means of three contrastive elements, i.e., the universality of form and meaning, the universality of meaning albeit different forms, and the element of distinctiveness or idiosyncrasy of each language. All data were obtained from Indonesian Idioms and Expressions, Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, Indonesian Proverbs Dictionary, and Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia. The data were classified and analysed based on the three contrastive elements. Subsequently, each element was scrutinised in terms of the rationality embedded therein. The results of careful analysis show that the universality of the form and meaning of animal metaphors in both languages (i.e., Indonesian and English) reflects the common thread of harmonisation of language expressions—although in some other points, the perception is completely of difference between Indonesian speakers and English ones and hence creates contrasting forms of linguistic expression. The distinctive element of metaphors in each language illustrates that other extra-linguistic elements, e.g., history, values, norms, customs, and to name a few, contribute greatly to the process of constructing language expressions.
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Bartusik, Grzegorz. "Graeco-Roman Metaphor of Human Fate as a Fabric Woven and Thread Spun by Supernatural Beings in Medieval Icelandic Contexts." Studia Scandinavica 6, no. 26 (December 28, 2022): 13–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.26881/ss.2022.26.05.
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This article offers an analysis of the Old Icelandic use of the weaving and spinning of fate metaphor, which projects the patterns of the practices of weaving and spinning on the notion of fate. The study aims primarily at reviewing the Latin provenance of this metaphor in the Old Icelandic literature, and examining the probability of the transfer of this metaphor through the reception of ancient Roman literature in medieval Iceland.
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Ball, Martin. "The Pleating of History: Weaving the Threads of Nationhood." Cultural Studies Review 11, no. 1 (August 12, 2013): 158–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v11i1.3457.
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As any etymologist knows, the word ‘text’ is derived from the past participle of the Latin verb texere, to weave. Text is therefore something that is ‘woven’. It’s a persuasive metaphor, to imagine writing in terms of the warp and weft of ideas and words, of narrative threads woven together to become a piece of fabric. The idea of history as fabric brings together a whole different set of tropes, not just of weaving, but of the very materiality of fabric. Does the fabric have a nap, or a pattern? Is it cut with the grain, or on the bias? What of its folds, its seams? All these qualities of fabric have application in the interpretation of history, and some of these images are already familiar in historical discourse.
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Levin, Ya A., and S. O. Buranok. "«NEW PEARL HARBOR»: ASSESSMENTS OF THE CYBERTHREAM IN THE US PRESS." Izvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences 24, no. 85 (2022): 52–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.37313/2413-9645-2022-24-85-52-55.
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The metaphor "New Pearl Harbor" and its variant "Russian Pearl Harbor" is an important element of US foreign policy discourse and contemporary research. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is used both for "internal consumption" (political discourse) and for external. And in the XXI century. this metaphor very often arises in the coverage and analysis of contemporary Russian-American relations. The study of this metaphor in the United States is carried out in several directions. The authors come to the conclusion that in 2001 the “New Pearl Harbor” metaphor was transformed from the American media into the US foreign policy discourse. This attention to cyber threats was quickly reflected in official US strategic documents. Thus, the US National Security Strategy states: “Today, cyberspace enables state and non-state actors to campaign and attack against American politics, economics and security.” When analyzing and commenting on this provision of the US National Security Strategy, the American media unequivocally interpreted this threat as Cyber Pearl Harbor. Therefore, studying the specifics of understanding and using the concept of "Cyber Pearl Harbor" is an important and relevant research task, due to the provisions of the US National Security Strategy, which helps to highlight in more detail the specifics of constructing the image of foreign policy threats.
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Gustavsson, Nora S. "The War Metaphor: A Threat to Vulnerable Populations." Social Work 36, no. 4 (July 1991): 277–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/36.4.277.
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Hancock, Peter A., and Nushien Shahnami. "Memory as a String of Pearls." KronoScope 10, no. 1-2 (2010): 77–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852410x561862.
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AbstractWhich representational metaphor one chooses serves to exert a powerful influence upon how we conceive of and subsequently think about time. In the human perception of time, one of the most critical faculties is that of memory, since it appears that we remember the past and anticipate the future while simultaneously experiencing the present. We here present a ‘string of pearls’ metaphor which captures the features of episodic memories (both retrospective and prospective) as the pearls on the string. The underlying continuity of lived experience of existence is equated with the thread of the string itself upon which these respective episodic pearls are mounted. The advantages, nuances, and drawbacks of the use of this metaphor to the understanding of time perception are discussed.
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Ścigaj, Paweł. "Zombie jako wyzwanie dla refleksji teoriopolitycznej i dydaktyki nauk politycznych." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Politologica 25, no. 325 (May 29, 2021): 163–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24917/20813333.25.10.
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In recent years, zombies have made a stunning career, not only in literature and film, but also in scientificresearch. Zombies appear in scientific discourse as a reflection of fears connected with colonialism,imperialism, capitalism, consumerism, as well as metaphors for threats, like terrorism, asymmetric conflicts,epidemics and many more. It is also a useful concept for capturing ideas and theories remaining in scientificcirculation which are in fact dead. So-called “zombie-categories” reflect theories that either explain nothingor the phenomena they refer to do not exist. Taking this into account, it is hard not to use zombies in politicaltheory, especially as a useful category that enables the identification of “dead and alive” theories. Besides,
zombie metaphors seem to be very promising in the political science teaching and a lot of research hasalready been undertaken in that field bringing unexpected and valuable results.
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Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, and Izabela Wierzbowska. "Parallelized Swarm Intelligence Approach for Solving TSP and JSSP Problems." Algorithms 13, no. 6 (June 12, 2020): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/a13060142.
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One of the possible approaches to solving difficult optimization problems is applying population-based metaheuristics. Among such metaheuristics, there is a special class where searching for the best solution is based on the collective behavior of decentralized, self-organized agents. This study proposes an approach in which a swarm of agents tries to improve solutions from the population of solutions. The process is carried out in parallel threads. The proposed algorithm—based on the mushroom-picking metaphor—was implemented using Scala in an Apache Spark environment. An extended computational experiment shows how introducing a combination of simple optimization agents and increasing the number of threads may improve the results obtained by the model in the case of TSP and JSSP problems.
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Inizan, Yvon. "L'unité de la “vaste sphère poétique”." Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 7, no. 2 (February 1, 2017): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/errs.2016.384.
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Is there, in the work of Paul Ricœur, as has been said, a form of dissymmetry between the field of metaphor and that of narrative ? From The Rule of Metaphor, the reference to Northrop Frye and to Nelson Goodman will make it possible to fully grasp the unity of the poetic sphere. The Rule of Metaphor and Time and Narrative are then presented as two twin works. Paul Ricœur explains in particular that lyric poetry itself has the power to produce a plot, and that in this sense “the feeling articulated by the poem is no less heuristic than the tragic tale.” (The Rule of Metaphor (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986 [1978]), 245.) Following certain references made in these two twin books – where the dialectic between “discovering and creating,” “finding and projecting” (The Rule of Metaphor, 306) can be read –, it is then possible to make a common thread appear in the analyses where a general idea of the creative act presents itself as a viewpoint. The work of art becomes experience, proof of a “tensional” conception of truth, a dialectic between “the experience of belonging” and “the power of distanciation.”
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Hartel, Jenna. "The red thread of information." Journal of Documentation 76, no. 3 (February 14, 2020): 647–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-04-2019-0067.
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PurposeIn The Invisible Substrate of Information Science, a landmark article about the discipline of information science, Marcia J. Bates wrote that “…we are always looking for the red thread of information in the social texture of people's lives” (1999a, p. 1048). To sharpen our understanding of information science and to elaborate Bates' idea, the work at hand answers the question: Just what does the red thread of information entail?Design/methodology/approachThrough a close reading of Bates' oeuvre and by applying concepts from the reference literature of information science, nine composite entities that qualify as the red thread of information are identified, elaborated, and related to existing concepts in the information science literature. In the spirit of a scientist–poet (White, 1999), several playful metaphors related to the color red are employed.FindingsBates' red thread of information entails: terms, genres, literatures, classification systems, scholarly communication, information retrieval, information experience, information institutions, and information policy. This same constellation of phenomena can be found in resonant visions of information science, namely, domain analysis (Hjørland, 2002), ethnography of infrastructure (Star, 1999), and social epistemology (Shera, 1968).Research limitations/implicationsWith the vital vermilion filament in clear view, newcomers can more easily engage the material, conceptual, and social machinery of information science, and specialists are reminded of what constitutes information science as a whole. Future researchers and scientist–poets may wish to supplement the nine composite entities with additional, emergent information phenomena.Originality/valueThough the explication of information science that follows is relatively orthodox and time-bound, the paper offers an imaginative, accessible, yet technically precise way of understanding the field.
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Hasibuan, Annim, Ayu Melati Ningsih, and Sri Wahyuni. "Metaphors in Minangkabau Language: Meaning Shift and Change." International Journal of Research and Review 10, no. 1 (January 26, 2023): 520–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230160.
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Metaphor is a tool to explain the nature of shifts and changes in meaning because it is able to serve the thoughts and feelings of language users. Metaphor serves as a source of strong motivation to express such thoughts and feelings and becomes expressive means of language. Not all meanings can be conveyed literally, and if speakers feel that there are no words with literal meaning available, they will convey the meaning figuratively which can be more captivating to the listener's attention or can bring out complexities that cannot be done in other ways. Minang native speakers consider settlement in the outside of deliberation to be bad. To avoid disputes, they must be good at finding and uttering expressions whose meanings are different from the sentences that are said, so, they do not immediately feel offended or humiliated. The utterance in (8) means ‘to clean village from all threats and disturbance.’ The analogy of red in (10) refers to saga fruit and the sentential meaning of (11) is associated to a person who has capability to posit him-/her-self. Meanwhile, the sentence in (13) might mean ‘what is hoped appears.’ There are similarities in the nature of animals equated with human character, for example, in Minang, the phrases pipik andak menjadi elang ‘the sparrow wants to be an eagle’ and gajah dilulue ular lidih ‘elephant is wrapped around by a small snake’ refer to a weak against a strong person or can be described as a person who is not aware of his abilities. Keywords: Metaphor, ontological, structural, inference, Minangkabau, meaning shift and change
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Tsekpoe, Christian. "Changing Metaphors in African Theologies: Influences from Digital Cultures." Studies in World Christianity 28, no. 1 (March 2022): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2022.0371.
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The incursion of globalisation presents both opportunities and challenges for mission in Africa. This is especially visible among the younger generation whose cultural perspectives have been influenced by global digital cultures. Although the youth in Africa are very much aware of their indigenous identities, they also participate actively with their peers elsewhere around the globe. As a result of these global interactions, many of the pre-colonial theological metaphors which have been accepted as authentic grassroots African theologies seem to have become less meaningful to emerging generations. Analysing contemporary oral sources such as music, prayers, poetry and everyday conversation among young Africans, this paper argues that there is a seismic shift in theological metaphors that speak meaningfully to the contexts of emerging Africans. The paper argues that many young people in contemporary Ghana, for example, do not see mmoatia (dwarfs) and sasabonsam (forest monster) as symbols of threat: they have new threats. A theology that describes Jesus as a hunter could be so impotent in the face of contemporary realities of some young people in Ghana, as Western theologies made a corresponding adjustment in Majority World countries a few decades ago. The paper concludes that these changing metaphors have implications for local theologies in Africa and must be engaged by theologians, missionaries and all who are interested in African theologies for the purpose of meaningful contextualisation in contemporary African Christianity.
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Pollard, Stephen. "Men grow old." On the Horizon 22, no. 1 (February 4, 2014): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oth-09-2013-0037.
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Purpose – This sermon argues that artistry and understanding are the offspring of whole people: thoughtful, resolute, and passionate. It then considers some illiberal fashions in higher education that stifle passion. Design/methodology/approach – This is an opinion piece. Findings – Current threats to liberal education include metaphors demeaning to professors, incomprehensible or inconsequential learning objectives, and schemes that increase “intentionality” by limiting students' opportunities for exploration and discovery. Originality/value – This sermon makes vivid to educational leaders and would-be reformers some of the negative consequences of their actions and proposals.
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Materynska, Olena. "ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS: MASS-MEDIA COVERAGE OF NEW CHALLENGES IN GERMAN-LANGUAGE MASS MEDIA." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Literary Studies. Linguistics. Folklore Studies, no. 31 (2022): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2659.2022.31.06.
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This study focuses on the coverage of environmental threats in the German-language media. The methodology of this study is based on the ecolinguistic approach, particularly the achievements of media ecology, identifying the harmonization of the media space as a priority for journalism and a relevant area for linguistic studies. The German-language media focuses on the environmental challenges caused by the war in Ukraine, the threat of imminent climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The effectiveness of their media presentation by the lexical and stylistic means is becoming relevant for linguistic research. The anthropocentric worldview of the human being causes a significant manipulative effect of anthropomorphic metaphor on the reader and helps to promote a conscious attitude to the environment. The distinguished models of metaphor and metonymy, used to increase the emotional plane of the described content, indicate the possibility of their use as a tool for awakening ecolinguistic consciousness. The socio- and psycholinguistic experiment determined the peculiarities of the German-speaking respondents' reception of publications on environmental issues. Representatives of the younger generation (mostly students) were interviewed, which allowed forming an idea of their interest in overcoming ecological problems and finding out popular sources of information about them. The impossibility of an immediate comprehensive expert assessment of the consequences of the war in Ukraine for all ecosystems determines further research into the means of media attention to this issue.
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Dimitrieva, O. A. "Metaphorical understanding of the life path and the search for the meaning of life in V. Pelevin’s novel "The Invincible Sun"." Russian language at school 83, no. 5 (September 20, 2022): 68–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2022-83-5-68-76.
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The paper explores the metaphors and similes in modern literary text. The material for the study was V. O. Pelevin’s novel "The Invincible Sun" (2020). The paper aims to analyse the comparison tropes of the novel (mostly extended metaphors) with the semantics of the search for the meaning of life. Another goal is to identify the source domain of the metaphors which are often determined by experience and a person’s socio-cultural environment. As comparison tropes in V. O. Pelevin’s works are under-investigated, the study appears novel. The main method is linguo-stylistic, lexico-semantic, and contextual analysis. The research has revealed that the idea of the world as a simulation is interpreted through gadgets and devices creating virtual reality. It has been shown that the person himself, his inner and outer microcosms seem unreal and are represented by virtual gadgets and their components as well as computer-like processes (transfer and erasure of information, reformatting, and so on). The spiritual world of a person is interpreted through associations and comparisons with Internet channels. The Otherworld, its creator and gods are embodied with the help of the "Invincible Sun" projector. Everything material, or "earthly", is an illusion and a simulation. The paper states that a person’s search for their path, their role and actions are materialised by artefactual metaphors, and a person’s place is defined as a thread in a pattern on the fabric of the world. The study concludes that such a twofold world view and such a location of a person in the world are typical of V. O. Pelevin and his idiostyle, i. e. they convey the dominant idea of his works.
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Dembińska-Pawelec, Joanna. "Arachne z ulotną nicią. Sygnatura kobieca w późnej poezji Bogusławy Latawiec." Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, no. 32 (October 2, 2018): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pspsl.2018.32.14.
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The author of this sketch interprets Bogusława Latawiec’s poems in the context of women’s signatures. Poetry of Latawiec was usually read by critics in relation to the Polish avant-garde tradition represented by men: J. Przyboś and T. Karpowicz. The author recalls N. K. Miller’s proposition of feminist reading and her theory of text as an arachnology. Analysing Latawiec’s poems she shows some signs of feminine writing contained in metaphors: a thread, textiles, weaving, sewing, needlework. These signs are of particular importance in the metatextual poems talking about the process of creating as a weaving a text.
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Zhang, Li, and John Barnden. "Towards a Semantic-Based Approach for Affect and Metaphor Detection." International Journal of Distance Education Technologies 11, no. 2 (April 2013): 48–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdet.2013040103.
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Affect detection from open-ended virtual improvisational contexts is a challenging task. To achieve this research goal, the authors developed an intelligent agent which was able to engage in virtual improvisation and perform sentence-level affect detection from user inputs. This affect detection development was efficient for the improvisational inputs with strong emotional indicators. However, it can also be fooled by the diversity of emotional expressions such as expressions with weak or no affect indicators or metaphorical affective inputs. Moreover, since the improvisation often involves multi-party conversations with several threads of discussions happening simultaneously, the previous development was unable to identify the different discussion contexts and the most intended audiences to inform affect detection. Therefore, in this paper, the authors employ latent semantic analysis to find the underlying semantic structures of the emotional expressions and identify topic themes and target audiences especially for those inputs without strong affect indicators to improve affect detection performance. They also discuss how such semantic interpretation of dialog contexts is used to identify metaphorical phenomena. Initial exploration on affect detection from gestures is also discussed to interpret users’ experience of using the system and provide an extra channel to detect affect embedded in the virtual improvisation. Their work contributes to the journal themes on affect sensing from text, semantic-based dialogue processing and emotional gesture recognition.
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Grevsmühl, Sebastian Vincent. "Revisiting the “Ozone Hole” Metaphor: From Observational Window to Global Environmental Threat." Environmental Communication 12, no. 1 (October 2, 2017): 71–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2017.1371052.
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Bilbil, Ebru Tekin. "Social Networking and Local Controversies." International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking 9, no. 3 (July 2017): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijvcsn.2017070102.
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Based on the components of new media, this article focuses on the intersection between communication networks and content (media) through personal connections and cable/interactive television. First, it analyzes how connections through social networking as a communication and power maintenance strategy produce rhetorical devices through categorizations, symbols, and metaphors by standing on emotions, suspicions, and threats at the local level. Second, it examines the complex and ubiquitous nature of social networking to elaborate how local market actors create uncertainties and how uncertainties are socially constructed through rhetorical devices. Based on the in-depth interviews and participant observations, this article reveals how sociotechnical controversies are created, formed and shaped with rhetorical devices that produce uncertainties at the local level.
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Sismondo, Sergio. "Boundary Work and the Science Wars: James Robert Brown's Who Rules in Science?" Episteme 1, no. 3 (February 2005): 235–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/epi.2004.1.3.235.
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The Science Wars have not involved any violence, nor even threats of violence. Thus the label “wars” for this series of discussions, mostly one-sided and mostly located within the academy, is something of an overblown metaphor. Nonetheless, I will suggest that there are some respects in which the metaphor is appropriate. The Science Wars involve territory, albeit a metaphorical kind of territory. They inspire work that can be best interpreted as ideological, a result of disciplinary interests. Moreover, fellow participants in the wars and others reward that ideological work.My goal in this is to display efforts to maintain a discipline's epistemic authority, the recognition that members of that discipline have legitimate claims to knowledge on a subject. The central section of the paper takes the form of a discussion of one recent contribution to the Science Wars, James Robert Brown's Who Rules in Science? My argument is at least somewhat generalizable beyond this book, and it therefore points to interesting phenomena related to epistemic authority.
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Barry,, Charlotte D., Cynthia Ann Blum,, and Marguerite J. Purnell,. "Caring for Individuals Displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma: The Lived Experience of Student Nurses." International Journal of Human Caring 11, no. 2 (March 2007): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710.11.2.67.
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The purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore the experience of caring for individuals and families left homeless and then displaced in the aftermath of destructive hurricanes. The nursing situations, which are reflective stories from the practice of seven undergraduate nursing students, were interpreted to uncover the meaning of caring for others who have experienced disastrous situations. The interpreted findings are three thematic threads that cut across all the texts: building connections to others, appreciating the wholeness of persons, and learning the meaning of caring in nursing. The wholeness of this inquiry is presented using a metaphor to describe the fullness of lives lived, despite being left homeless and displaced by disastrous hurricanes.
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Petteway, Ryan J. "PARTICULATES//Tulips: (Or, Estimating Respiratory Effects of Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 Using a Policing-Climate Adjusted Hazard Function)." Health Promotion Practice 22, no. 1_suppl (May 2021): 17S—19S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839921996263.
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Through poetry, I offer a creative, critical analysis of the intersections of COVID-19, structural racism, and racialized police violence—situating present COVID-19 discourse within a broader historical arc of respiratory distress within communities of color, all while centering Earth Day and climate change as both metaphor and corollary. In doing so, I enact poetry as praxis, reflecting critically on the racialized contexts and consequences of overlapping threats to our health, while simultaneously crafting counternarrative to public health’s ahistoric, apolitical, and racist proclivities in times of public health crises
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Szczur, Piotr. "Image and metaphor of the sea in the Homilies on the Gospel of saint Matthew by John Chrysostom." Vox Patrum 70 (December 12, 2018): 527–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31743/vp.3220.
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In this article analyzes all statements of John Chrysostom from the Homilies on the Gospel of Saint Matthew containing terms: pšlagoj and q£lassa, used by our author as a designation of the sea. This analysis allowed for the extraction of few groups of sea metaphors. Chrysostom points on the sea as one of the elements of the Universe (together with heaven and earth). He describes the sea as a dangerous and uncontrollable wild element, but still subjected to Christ. The image of the sea, which – because of its enormity – is beyond other elements of the Universe, is used by Golden Tongued to describe immensity and commonness. And the reference to sea threats (winds, sea currents, storms, shallows) inclines him to describe human life as a sailing across the rough sea.
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Navitskaite, E. A. "Metaphoric Representation of Islamic Threat Concept in the English-Language Internet Discourse." Университетский научный журнал, no. 42 (2018): 106–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25807/pbh.22225064.2018.42.106.113.
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