This paper introduces human breathing as a metaphor for thinking about individual contributing to organizational coordination. It extends the information processing view commonly found in structure and process based social cognition theories. These theories need extension, as they cannot adequately explain current phenomena like organizational improvisation and breakdowns. Following the canons ...

Connectivism is a new learning theory introduced by George Siemens in 2004 in order to cope with the increasing complexity and fast-paced change of the new knowledge era. This paper addresses the network metaphor of learning, which explains learning in terms of networks. We begin by introducing the connectivism approach to learning based on Siemens’ work, and then provide an account of our view...

The paper presents an analysis of metaphors used to describe flavor in the 21st century English-speaking culture. is based on modern theories taste developed within Humanities and most relevant ideas Metaphor Studies. Among latter J.Zinken’s Discourse Theory. According it, metaphor can serve as a framing device, setting conceptual landmarks for oral written narratives. research was conducted ba...

Within immunology, new theories are constantly being proposed that challenge current ways of thinking. These include new theories regarding how the immune system responds to pathogenic material. This conceptual paper takes one relatively new such theory: the Danger theory, and explores the relevance of this theory to the application domain of web mining. Central to the idea of Danger theory is ...

The use of the computer as a model, metaphor, and modelling tool has tended to privilege the ‘cognitive’ over the ‘affective’ by engendering theories in which thinking and learning are viewed as information processing and affect is ignored or marginalised. In the last decade there has been an accelerated flow of findings in multiple disciplines supporting a view of affect as complexly intertwin...

This paper investigates the conceptualization of emotional release from a cognitive linguistics perspective (Cognitive Metaphor Theory). The metaphor weeping is a means of liberating contained emotions is grounded in universal embodied cognition and is reflected in linguistic expressions in English and Spanish. Lexicalization patterns which encapsulate this conceptualization i...

In metaphorical terms, some might characterize psychologists as “blind mutes trying to understand the elephant,” with each set of scholars (the blind mutes) understanding only a portion of the problem (the elephant) and unable to communicate their understanding to other scholars. Both individually and collectively, the articles in this special issue, which is devoted to theories of autobiograph...

We lack scientiic theories that can support the design of virtual worlds, which we construe in a broad to include user interfaces, as well as text-based systems. Semiotics would seem a natural choice, but it (1) lacks mathematical precision, (2) considers single signs (e.g. a novel or a lm), not systems of signs, and (3) doesn't address interaction, or (4) social issues , such as arise in colla...

This paper employs the innovative method of Elicited Metaphor Analysis to present original research in Malaysia into students’ metaphors for ‘language’. We summarize reasons why language and first/ second learning are centrally important education, show patterned features proverbs teacher talk about literacy. These may be one strand student socialization language-literacy conceptions. then repo...