Metaphor is viewed in a broad sense in this paper, which is no longer a mere rhetorical device but a mode of thinking. This violation against the traditional concept of metaphor will definitely result in great changes in both the cognition and translation of metaphor. Firstly, this paper aims at casting off the conventional idea of metaphor and widening the cognition scope of it. Secondly, this...

The paper is devoted to problems of computer metaphors,, such as Interface metaphor and Visualization metaphor. Interface metaphor is considered as the basic idea of likening between interactive objects and model objects of the application domain. A visualization metaphor is defined as a map establishing the correspondence between concepts and objects of the application domain under modeling an...

Children encounter metaphor in all aspects of their daily lives, including the spoken and written discourse of school, and metaphor can be one of the routes through which socio-cultural norms are appropriated. The use of metaphor seems to be a basic human skill, which develops in interaction with developing world knowledge and linguistic skills. Both use of metaphor and the development of metap...

This article analyses Jamaica Kincaid’s autobiographical novel See Now Then through the metaphor of palimpsest with aim exploring frictions between different generic and thematic layers that make up text. It argues despite novel’s openness, its concerns, most notably treatment time narrative temporality, encourage a backward-looking stance reasserts past. The theories Sarah Dillon Lene Johannes...

This essay explores evolutionary and competence-based theories of the firm. " Evolutionary " approaches to the theory of the firm often invoke the biological metaphor of natural selection[1]. The classic example here is the seminal work by Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter: An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982). Exponents of evolutionary approaches argue that they provide better theor...

Although there is a growing understanding of theory building in the information systems (IS) field, what constitutes IS remains subject intense debate. Following Weick recommendation to focus on products theorizing rather than theories are, we assemble and analyze 12 (question, paradigm, law, framework, myth, analogy, metaphor, model, concept, construct, statement, hypothesis) that are rarely d...