according to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. this article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...

Effects of meaningfulness of structurally similar CVCs on stimulus generalization of eyelid closure." (1963).

The present article argues for what is essentially a return to the functionalist approach to investigation of memory. Two experiments demonstrate that the effects of level of processing depend on scaled meaningfulness of the material and study time. Data from those experiments along with data currently in the literature are then reanalyzed to examine the effect of repetitions. Of particular int...

Kielhofner's A Model of Human Occupation was used to guide a study on the effect of occupational behavior (defined as the type, amount, and meaningfulness of one's activities) on life satisfaction in retirees. Seventy-nine volunteers from a variety of settings for the elderly completed a questionnaire about the amount and types of their activities, the meaningfulness of their activities (i.e., ...

discourse analysis attempts as methodology to discover the interactions of language with intellectual-social structures within written and oral texts, as well as to study the meaning formation in relation to intralingistic and cross-linguistic factors. in other words, the conditions of meaningfulness are called discourse. this method has been achieved as the outcome of studies conducted by scho...