By Keola Donaghy Abstract: This article examines how the elements and interactions of the natural world can used as metaphors for the formative processes of Hawaiian language composition and vocal performance. It will examine the composition Ka Wai A K?ne (“The Water of K?ne”) and its depiction of the movement of water through the ahupua?a (a pre-contact land division) to present a conceptual m...

We present a conceptual model that describes the effect of pixel size on target acquisition. We demonstrate the use of our conceptual model by applying it to predict and explain the results of an experiment to evaluate users’ performance in a target acquisition task involving three distinct display sizes: standard desktop, small and large displays. The results indicate that users are fastest on...

Despite the increased salience of metaphor in organization theory, there is still very little conceptual machinery for capturing and explaining how metaphor creates and/or reorders knowledge within organization theory. Moreover, prior work on metaphor has insufficiently accounted for the context of interpreting a metaphor. Many metaphors in organization theory, including the ‘organizational ide...

Nowadays the omnipresence of advertisements, and necessity conscious subconscious mental interpretation their hidden messages, can hardly be overlooked. In present article, authors attempt to provide additional evidence for role multimodal metaphor, metonymy, conceptual blending in cognitive mechanisms involved understanding and/or correct printed non-commercial advertisements overall communica...