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Williams, Camus Julia T. "Metaphors of cancer in scientific popularisation articles in the English and Spanish press." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/145374.

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This thesis provides an account of the metaphors of cancer in a comparable English and Spanish corpus of 300 press popularisation articles. The aim is to identify relevant source domains that are employed in these articles to conceptualise the disease. Although a number of studies have explored the use of WAR metaphors in the discourse on cancer, there is still little understanding of the actual way cancer is presented metaphorically to the lay public in the press or of the range of source domains that conceptualise the target domain. Thus, in addition to the WAR, VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSIO

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Heikkilä, Sara. "Functions and Strategies : The translation of narrative metaphors in a popular scientific text." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45415.

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The aim of this paper is to describe how functions of metaphors relate to translation strategiesin a translation of a popular scientific article from English to Swedish. The investigation isbased on a close reading of the source and target texts which identifies metaphors of fourdifferent functions: pedagogical, theory-constitutive, decorative and narrative. The methodfor metaphor identification is adapted from Merakchi and Rogers (2013) while the translationstrategies discussed have been borrowed from Toury (2012). These strategies reflect realtranslator behaviour and take into account source

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Graytock, Andrea Michele. "Is the Blueprint the Building? Studies on the Use of Social Representation Theory, Information Theory, Folkscience, Metaphor and Language to Understand Student Comprehension of Metaphors in the Domain of Gene Expression." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306905803.

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Hammarström, Isabella. "Kemi med andra ord : Gymnasieelevers användning av vetenskapligt och vardagligt språk i ett spel om kemiska begrepp." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för matematikämnets och naturvetenskapsämnenas didaktik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119391.

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This thesis investigates upper secondary students’ usage of scientific and colloquial language through a custom-designed game. The aim of the game is for the participants to, without any time limit, explain chemical concepts using other words than the one written on the playing card so that the partner is able to guess what the target concept is. During the audio recorded game sessions the students showed usage of scientific and colloquial language as well as a blend of these two linguistic resources. The students also used metaphors and helpwords in some measure together with a linguistic res

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Wernbro-Augustsson, Birgitta. "Translating "Clarity, Style and Precision" : The Economist's Language from the Translator's Point of View." Thesis, Växjö University, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5370.

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<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The following essay is an analysis of the translation process from English into Swedish of four articles about the oceans of the world, printed in <em>The Economist</em> in December 2008. This publication claims to be using a language characterised by "clarity, style and precision", wherefore these concepts provide the focus for the analysis. "Clarity" was looked at in terms of metaphors, "style" in terms of quotes and allusions present in headlines, leads and subheadings and "precision" was studied in terms of hedging.</p><p>

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Bonn, Mia. "Where the Water Goes : Translation of the Gerund-Participle, Metaphors and Similes in a Scientific Report about Ocean Science." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-36686.

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The aim of this study is to discuss which strategies may be used in translation from English to Swedish of a scientific text on oceanography. Focus is on how to deal with translation of the gerund-participle form, metaphors and similes. The source text is Mapping the Deep; the Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science, written by Robert Kunzig (2000), from which a selection of interesting and challenging examples are chosen to be discussed and analyzed. A theoretical background is given about the gerund-participle form according to Huddleston & Pullum (2002) and Ingo (2007), and about metaphors

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Knudsen, Sanne. "By the grace of gods - and years and years of evolution : analysis and interpretation of development of metaphors in scientific texts /." Roskilde : Department of Language and Culture, University of Roskilde, 1996. http://www.rub.ruc.dk/epublisher/resume_by_the_grace.pdf.

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Cloarec, Julie. "Fiction et connaissance, du théâtre à la physique : l'esthétique et les sciences du point de vue de l'acteur : vers une philosophie féconde de l'absurde." Thesis, Paris 1, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA010697.

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La fiction, bien plutôt que de relever d'une illusion, stérile et dangereuse, engendrée par une imagination trop souvent réduite à n'être que la « folle du logis» par la tradition rationaliste de la philosophie, ne montre-t-elle pas toute sa pertinence et sa fécondité dans le double domaine de l'esthétique et de l'épistémologie, que ce soit, par exemple, dans le jeu paradoxal du comédien ou dans la métaphorisation du réel par le chercheur scientifique, qui s'alimentent, tous deux, à la source d'une mimésis où s'originent toute connaissance comme toute action humaines ? Mais la fiction ne trouv

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Nath, Kiran Pamela. "The effect of gendered metaphor on scientific research, an empirical test." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0018/MQ37600.pdf.

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Montuschi, Eleonora. "Scientific metaphor and theoretical explanation : an inquiry into the constructive language of postulation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304916.

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Cox, Donna J. "Astral projection : theories of metaphor, philosophies of science, and the art of scientific visualization." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1634.

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This thesis provides an intellectual context for my work in computational scientific visualization for large-scale public outreach in venues such as digitaldome planetarium shows and high-definition public television documentaries. In my associated practicum, a DVD that provides video excerpts, 1 focus especially on work I have created with my Advanced Visualization Laboratory team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (Champaign, Illinois) from 2002-2007. 1 make three main contributions to knowledge within the field of computational scientific visualization. Firstly, I share

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Willison, John W. "Classroom factors affecting student scientific literacy: tales and their interpretation using a metaphoric framework." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 2000. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12881.

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The scientific literacy of four students in Year 8 was the main focus of one year of participant observer research. An interpretive research methodology was employed to generate tales about each student, in order to provide rich descriptions of the participation of these students in Science classes and in non-Science classes.A major theme was the complementarity of epistemological referents for scientific literacy. Objectivism, personal constructivism and social constructivism were identified as major referents for scientific literacy, and therefore as underpinning factors for the diversity of

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Willison, John William. "Classroom factors affecting student scientific literacy : tales and their interpretation using a metaphoric framework /." Full text available, 2000. http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20030702.104943.

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Zacharias, Sebastian. "The Darwinian revolution as a knowledge reorganization." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät I, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17145.

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Die Dissertation leistet drei Beiträge zur Forschung: (1) Sie entwickelt ein neuartiges vierstufiges Modell wissenschaftlicher Theorien. Dieses Modell kombiniert logisch-empiristische Ansätze (Carnap, Popper, Frege) mit Konzepten von Metaphern & Narrativen (Wittgenstein, Burke, Morgan), erlaubt so deutlich präzisiere Beschreibungen wissenschaftlicher Theorien bereit und löst/mildert Widersprüche in logisch-empiristischen Modellen. (Realismus vs. Empirismus, analytische vs. synthetische Aussagen, Unterdeterminiertheit/ Holismus, wissenschaftliche Erklärungen, Demarkation) (2) Mit diesem Mode

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Bolander, Alisa Curtis. "Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd422.pdf.

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Lillkung, Lilianna. "À la recherche de la métaphore scientifique - termes médicaux en traduction." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-37626.

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From a general point of view, the aim of this thesis is to study the appearance and the translation of the metaphor in a context that involves specialized texts. Our purpose is also to examine the historical expression of metaphor within aspects connected to its importance for creation of scientific terms. More precisely, the main object is to explore how metaphors have been used in the field of medical terminology and by which methods they have been translated across the languages. Our approach is based on the definition of conceptual metaphor conceived by Lakoff & Johnson as a product of

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Elkins, Mark. "Religious directives of health, sickness and death : Church teachings on how to be well, how to be ill, and how to die in early modern England." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16396.

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In broad terms, this thesis is a study of what Protestant theologians in early modern England taught regarding the interdependence between physical health and spirituality. More precisely, it examines the specific and complex doctrines taught regarding health-related issues in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and evaluates the consistency of these messages over time. A component of the controversial Protestant-science hypothesis introduced in the early twentieth century is that advancements in science were driven by the Protestant ethic of needing to control nature and every aspect the

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TANG, Shan-Lung, and 湯善龍. "The Effect on Applying Metaphors in Comprehension of Scientific Texts- Based on Electrolyte." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57031629839003512306.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>科學教育研究所<br>91<br>What science tends to discover is usually something that cannot be sensed by human sensory organs. People can make use of what they have already known to new things by making analogies. Besides, there is, probably no other ways to imagine or describe. In these recent years, cognitive psychology has gradually to pay more attention to the effects of what metaphors do to human intelligence. It thinks that metaphor is a technique of getting to know or introducing something new through something was known. It is a mode of conception transition, and this plays a ve

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Cross, Saskia. "A Study of the effects of social variables on technological conceptualisation in light of the desktop metaphor." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20153.

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In this dissertation, I investigate whether the conceptualisation of computerised technological phenomena is influenced by social variables, in particular exposure to the computer. The conceptualisation and behaviour of a group of students majoring in technology-related fields were studied. Through the application of Conceptual Blending Theory, the multi-modal desktop metaphorical blend (DMMB) (as an electronic representation of an actual office desktop) was focused on. The participants were provided with tasks with the aim of determining whether they conceptualise the electronic desktop as a

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Mazancová, Zuzana. "Rétorické figury v překladu neliterárních textů." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312962.

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The present thesis deals with figures of speech in non-literary texts and with the problems connected to their translation. The first part is dedicated to the theoretical description of figures of speech. First we deal with their definition according to the Czech and Spanish terminology and next we proceed to the figures that can be expected in popular science texts. We deal mainly with metaphors, their classification and opinions of translation scientists about the possibilities of their translation; but we mention also simile, metonymy and synecdoche. The second chapter is dedicated to popul

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Ferch, Kirsti. "Nominalisierungen in medizinischen Fachtexten : Eine schwedisch-deutsche Übersetzungsanalyse." Thesis, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96406.

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Scientific language, in contrast to general language, is characterised by its abstract and implicit style of expression, known as nominal style. A typical feature of this style is the frequent use of nominalizations which tend to be more common in German than in Swedish. This study will investigate whether these differences are also present in highly specialized medical texts. The quantitative and qualitative analysis is based on the translation of two medical articles from Swedish to German. The aim is to find out how often a nominalization in the source text corresponds to a nominalization i

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Albalaa, Pierre Youssef. "Exploring the Johannine spirituality: the experience of God in the fourth Gospel perceived from the perspective of its Familia Dei." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25940.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-313) : illustrations<br>This thesis examines the Experience of God in the Fourth Gospel (in this research, it is also called the Johannine Experience of God) by perceiving it from the perspective of the metaphoric Familia Dei, found in this Gospel. This examination is done in a three-step process: The first step consists of a literary review and a presentation of the methodology and approach employed in this research. It intends to set the thesis within the Johannine studies. The second step involves the articulation of essential considerati

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Kaiser, Elizabeth Hendrica. "`n Sosiaal-wetenskaplike benadering tot die eerste-eeuse mediterreense persoonlikheid van Jesus soos gevind in die Johannesevangelie." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1069.

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This study deals with the character of Jesus in the Gospel of John and follows the social-scientific approach and aims to correct the traditional views regarding the personality of Jesus. The aim is not a personality analysis but to situate Jesus as a typical person who was a part of and functioned in the first Mediterranean world. The pivotal values of the ancient world such as honor/shame; collectivistic/dyadic personality; family and group orientation; kinship; the patronage system with the patron/broker/client relationship and the purity system are applied to reach the aim of my thesis.

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Rathnam, Anbananthan. "Whole Teachers: A Holistic Education Perspective on Krishnamurti‘s Educational Philosophy." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/35936.

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The purpose of this qualitative research study, which utilizes a phenomenological inquiry method, is to inquire into the awareness of what it means to be a whole teacher from the perspective of the philosophy of Jiddu Krishnamurti, a philosopher/spiritual teacher. Four participants (teachers) were interviewed from the Oak Grove School, an alternative, holistic school founded by Krishnamurti in 1974. This inquiry probed into teachers’ thinking, teachers’ lives, teachers’ inner lives, teachers’ contemplative practices, teachers’ calling/vocation and teachers’ pedagogy. The findings of this inqu

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