Plant biologists widely accept plants demonstrate capacities for intelligence. However, they disagree over the interpretive, ethical and nomenclatural questions arising from these findings: how to frame issue signify implications. Through trope of 'plant neurobiology' describing plant root systems as analogous animal brains nervous systems, intelligence is mobilised raise status plants. In doin...

The “crossroads” is a recurring trope in popular and academic writing on the South Caucasus. This can conjure simplistic explanatory frameworks of timeless “silk road” connectivity, or region as meeting point East West, democracy authoritarianism, Christianity Islam. However, it also evocative powerful ways that movement people, goods, ideas across have shaped its past present. In this contribu...

The article characterizes metaphors and comparisons as a means of rethinking the phenomena surrounding world; two directions are named within which studied: 1) linguo-classification direction combines several classifications comparisons, basically focused on comparing denotations through meanings word forms that part trope; 2) theoretical conceptual is associated with concept displacement basis...

Psychological causes of social distance were examined from the perspective of Construal Level Theory (CLT; Liberman, Trope, & Stephan, 2007), which predicts that temporal distance from and abstract construal of a social target would create perception of social distance. Our studies demonstrate that expectations for temporally remote (versus proximal) social interaction produce greater social di...