Introduction: Cognitive linguists believe that metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon, and that what appears in language is just the aspect of cognitive phenomenon Metaphor is one of the basic interdisciplinary concepts that has been paid more attention to its fundamental role in various aspects of psychology, medicine, including cancer in recent years. Methods:. From the point of view of cognitiv...

The verbo-visual metaphor is widely used in messages of a persuasive nature. It also educational materials, where it serves to better explain and fix the presented material memory recipient. Metaphor based on an incongruity that recipient must notice then read mapping - what presence supposed convey. Researchers involved identifying metaphors describe two types can occur this type message: topi...

there have been two custom views on the relation of metaphor and philosophy.some philosophers (esp.analytical philosophers)take metaphor dispensable,and tend to philosophical texts without metaphor,constituted on proper usage of words. others take metaphor indispensable as the foundation of philosophical concepts.this attitude usually implies reducing philosophy to mythological discourse and in...

This conference provides a unique opportunity to capture a snapshot in time of where we are in the educational technology landscape. Landscape denotes static, a snapshot in time. However, the educational technology environment is dynamic and constantly changing. While at times the technological change and demands for technological change can be overwhelming, change needs to become an accepted, ...

1. introduction metaphor definition in islamic rhetoric has similarities with the theories of metaphor in the west. these similarities do not mean that the traditional definition still works so that rethinking of definition and providing new definitions is not necessary anymore. such an approach certainly will not be promising. the result of these efforts will enclose metaphor in the realm of r...

The current emphasis on rising educational standards in Australian society (eg A Commonwealth Government Quality Teacher Initiative, 2000) has stimulated a growing interest in Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory widely renowned for its profound understanding of teaching and learning. The metaphor of scaffolding commonly viewed as underpinned by socio-cultural theory and the zone of proximal develo...

Community colleges — institutions that serve disproportionate numbers of poor, working-class, first-generation, nontraditional, and minority students — are uniquely positioned to provide liberating educational experiences to a diverse spectrum of society. Cross (2000) aptly describes the current interest in cooperative and/or collaborative learning with a metaphor: “a swelling river of interest...

Intelligent Student Systems are a class of Intelligent Learning Environments that place the learner in the role of a tutor rather than a student. In an analogy with the educational practice of peer tutoring users learn by teaching the computer – inverting the predominant ‘computer as tutor’ metaphor. Intelligent Student Systems emphasize the learner’s viewpoint in educational interactions in pr...