نتایج جستجو برای: beautiful metaphors

تعداد نتایج: 12027  

Background: Researchers have shown that children with autism have difficulty with non-literal language, such as irony, sarcasm, deception, humor, and metaphors. To date, few studies have attempted to remediate these deficits, and no studies of which we are aware have attempted to teach children with autism to understand metaphors. Metaphorical reasoning consists of complex verbal behavior, invol...

2013
Bart Cammaerts

On 9 December 2011 a new Belgian government was sworn in after a record breaking 541 days of negotiations between all democratic political forces with the aim to alter the constitution and provide more autonomy to the different regions that make up Belgium. In this article, the frequent use of political metaphors by North-Belgian politicians and journalists is analysed through a critical metaph...

2004
Rilla Khaled Pippin Barr James Noble Robert Biddle

System Metaphor is one of the core practices of the software development process known as “Extreme Programming” (XP). Unfortunately, the System Metaphor practice is poorly understood, and is the practice XP teams most commonly choose to ignore. We provide a simple, structural model of system metaphors, based upon Peircean semiotics, giving a fundamental account of the way metaphors can contribu...

2002
IINA HELLSTEN

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Väliverronen, Hellsten / THE ROLE OF METAPHORS In public discourse on the environment, scientific knowledge is often mediated by metaphors. In this article, the authors are concerned with the role of metaphors in the communication of biodiversity loss. More specifically, their examination focuses on such popular metaphors as “the library of life,” “biotic holocaust,” and “...

2013
Lisa Gandy Nadji Allan Mark Atallah Ophir Frieder Newton Howard Sergey Kanareykin Moshe Koppel Mark Last Yair Neuman Shlomo Argamon

Full natural language understanding requires identifying and analyzing the meanings of metaphors, which are ubiquitous in both text and speech. Over the last thirty years, linguistic metaphors have been shown to be based on more general conceptual metaphors, partial semantic mappings between disparate conceptual domains. Though some achievements have been made in identifying linguistic metaphor...

Journal: :Medical teacher 2008
Paul Hager

All thought and talk about learning involves the use of metaphors. Whilst metaphors aid our understanding of things by suggesting novel insights, they can also mislead if too much is read into the supposed likenesses. Acquisition and transfer are easily the most popular metaphors used to understand learning. This article argues that these metaphors commonly mislead when we take them to mean tha...

Journal: :Revista Brasileira de Horticultura Ornamental 2013

2017
Alexander M. Rapp Anne K. Felsenheimer Karin Langohr Magdalena Klupp

Miscomprehension of nonliteral ("figurative") language like metaphors, proverbs, idioms, and ironic expressions by patients with schizophrenia is a phenomenon mentioned already in historical psychiatric descriptions. However, it was only recently that studies did differentiate between novel and conventional metaphors, a factor that is known to influence the difficulty of comprehension in health...

Aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. This study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...

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