scholarly journals An ambiguous toolof demos accountability: taking the metaphorical concept of majoritarian tyranny seriously

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Schedler
Keyword(s):  
Metaphorical Concept

scholarly journals METAPHORICAL CONCEPT “BODY” IN THE SACRED PENTATEUCH TEXTS OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE

10.23856/4305 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Ganna Izyumtseva
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cognitive Levels ◽  
Fresh Insight ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

The aim of the paper is to determine the content and structure of a basic metaphorical concept BODY identified in the Pentateuch texts of the English Bible. The nature and mechanism of the metaphorical concept is considered in the light of recent linguo-metaphorological investigations with the emphasis on distinction between the notions of “metaphorical concept” and “conceptual metaphor”. The method used in the research includes procedures of the analysis of metaphorical concepts elaborated by Yu.V. Kravtsova within the semantic- cognitive approach to study of metaphors and modelling of metaphorization. As a result, first, the composition of the content of the metaphorical concept at the semantic and cognitive levels of its stratification was established; second, the identified cognitive features were structurized according to their significance within a given ethno-culture; the third, the hierarchy of senses relevant for the concept bearers was revealed. Overall, the conducted analysis has offered a fresh insight into the author-specific conception of reality as a human body, in its various forms and manifestations.

scholarly journals Un mismo concepto metafórico. Fraseología e interculturalidad en las aulas / The same metaphorical concept. Phraseology and interculturality in the classroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (27) ◽  
pp. 297-304
Author(s):  
Umida Dushayeva
Keyword(s):  
Metaphorical Concept ◽  
Sobre Todo

Desarrollar instrumentos que permitan contribuir a una educación intercultural, se vuelve cada vez más importante, sobre todo por los flujos migratorios que se experimentan en el mundo globalizado del siglo XXI. Históricamente las sociedades, sobre todo latinoamericanas, no han sido capaces de incluir al otro, al contrario, los migrantes han sido objeto del rechazo mayoritario, de ahí la necesidad de construir sociedades incluyentes, tolerantes. Como cada vez es más común encontrar aulas en las que comparten clases estudiantes procedentes de distintos países y regiones, este artículo se propone destacar a la enseñanza de la fraseología como recurso integrador en los procesos migratorios en la región andina, sobre todo en Ecuador. Se encuentra que la fraseodidáctica puede ayudar a desarrollar otras competencias no lingüísticas, como la conciencia y expresiones culturales de quienes comparten un aula de clases.

scholarly journals Deleuzian Dragons: Thinking Chinese Strategic Spatial Planning with Gilles Deleuze

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Hillier ◽  
Kang Cao
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Scholars ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

As symbols of adaptability and transformation, together with qualities of vigilance and intelligence, we argue the relevance of dragons for spatial planning in China. We develop a metaphorical concept – the green dragon – for grasping the condition of contemporary Chinese societies and for facilitating the development of theories and practices of spatial planning which are able to face the challenges of rapid change. We ask Chinese scholars and spatial planners to liberate Deleuzian potential for strategic spatial planning in a ‘becoming-between, coming-together’ of concepts which can effectively make a difference in the world. Having outlined what we regard as key transversals or diagonals between our reading of Gilles Deleuze and aspects of Chinese philosophy, we then offer the metaphor of strategic spatial planning as Chinese literati landscape painting. This is a form of painting which rejects the idea of the world being supremely organised from a particular point of view, preferring to paint immanence and transformation. Chinese literati landscape paintings, like philosophy and strategic spatial planning, ‘look only at the movements’. We conclude that connections between what concepts of Chinese philosophy and those of Gilles Deleuze can do, suggest that in China, a conception of strategic spatial planning as metaphorical green dragon may offer academics and planning practitioners a transverse way to relate the legacies of past philosophies and current thinking.

scholarly journals Frame of Act of “Infidelity in Love” and Its Euphemistic Representations in Russian and English Linguocultures

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 45-59
Author(s):  
L. A. Bushuyeva
Keyword(s):  
Love Relationships ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Frame Model ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

Euphemisms that act as means of linguistic representation of the act of “infidelity in love relationships” in the Russian and the English are examined in the article. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the situation of the act of “infidelity in love” is presented in the form of a frame model, in the structure of which slots are allocated that actualize various aspects of the situation under consideration. It is shown that in Russian linguoculture the slots “Agent of an act and its properties”, “Counterparty of an act”, “Patient of an act”, “Action as a manifestation of an act”, “Evaluation of an act, an agent of an act”, “Place of the act” are objectified. It was revealed that in the English linguistic culture, in addition to the indicated slots, the “Motive of Action” slot is also updated. Comparison of the semantics of the euphemistic units of the two languages showed that the euphemization of the act of “infidelity in love” is based on similar techniques: the mechanism of linguistic generalization, replacement of direct nomination with a foreign lexeme, pronominalization, meiosis, metonymic / metaphoric transfer. It is shown that the actualization of infidelity is carried out on the basis of similar metaphorical concepts MOVEMENT, RELATIONSHIP, ENTERTAINMENT / RECREATION, POLLUTION, which are identified both in Russian and in English, and the metaphorical concept of SPORT is found only in English. 

scholarly journals Challenging career models in higher education: the influence of internal career scripts and the rise of the “concertina” career

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celia Whitchurch ◽  
William Locke ◽  
Giulio Marini
Keyword(s):  
Academic Staff ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Spatial Parameters ◽  
Metaphorical Concept ◽  
Boundaryless Careers

AbstractThe paper develops the metaphorical concept of the “concertina” career to describe ways in which academic staff, across a diversifying workforce, modulate their interactions with institutional career frameworks, which tend to be unilinear and to be characterised by detailed progression criteria and milestones. In doing this, they are guided by Internal career scripts, providing an additional dimension to the dichotomy of boundaried and boundaryless careers found in the literature. Drawing on a longitudinal study between 2017 and 2020, of forty-nine mid-career academic staff across eight UK universities, consideration is given to individuals’ spatial movements, for instance, between academic activities, and professional and personal commitments; and the manipulation of timescales to accelerate or decelerate career progress in relation to opportunities and constraints. The study shows ways in which the spatial parameters of a career are being stretched in order to accommodate new forms of academic work supplementing disciplinary activity, such as online learning, employability initiatives and public engagement, as well as work-life considerations. In addition, individuals are adapting timescales to accommodate professional activities such as health practice or community outreach, as well as personal commitments such as caring responsibilities. Thus, in the concertina career, individuals expand and contract activity, as well as extending and compressing timescales. As a result, it is concluded that institutional career models do not entirely reflect the reality of career-making by individuals, which is likely to involve detours (therefore a spatial dimension) and a disruption of assumed timelines (therefore a temporal dimension).

scholarly journals Journalists’ vision of the evolution of the (metaphorical) ecosystem of communication on health and biomedicine

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gema Revuelta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

This article analyses specialist journalists’ perception of transformations in public communication on health and biomedicine in Spain over the last two decades. A total of 20 semi-structured interviews were carried out. The analysis uses the metaphorical concept of “ecosystem”. According to the interviewees, the main “environmental” changes are technological (stressing the expansion and diversity of online information and the impact of social media). They perceive a multiplication and diversification among “information source-species”. Among these, the visibility of specialist sources (researchers and healthcare professionals) and civil associations (patients and consumers) has increased, but “opportunistic species”, such as promoters of fake news and pseudo-medicine, have also emerged. Health journalists rate their profession satisfactorily, while recognising that their working “environment” has deteriorated and perceiving a threat in the dependence on clickbait and social media positioning.

scholarly journals METAPHORICAL CONCEPT – THE BEDROCK OF HUMAN BEING

10.23856/4002 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Olesya Cherkhava ◽  
Maria Homyak ◽  
Władysław Majkowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

scholarly journals Metaphoric Nature of Views on Digital Transformation of Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Yu.A. Alyabysheva ◽  
A.A. Veryaev ◽  
B.B. Ermakov
Keyword(s):  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Metaphorical Concept

The article considers one of the current directions in the development of pedagogical knowledge that affects pedagogical practice and is based on the use of metaphors. Metaphors in pedagogy are quite widespread. This statement is illustrated by several examples. Often metaphors are hidden and are clearly not recognized. The article attempts to detect and describe some patterns of the process of pedagogical signifying and comprehension of metaphorical concepts. In the text of the article, the authors focused primarily on the metaphors of numbers, digital transformation and the route or individual trajectory in education. It is shown that the most contradictory definitions of metaphorical views are associated with the complex and multidimensional nature of pedagogical concepts, in particular, the larger the time/duration scales implicitly inherent in a pedagogical concept, the more diverse the content attributed to a metaphorical concept can be, the more values are generated, the more discrepancies are present in definitions given by pedagogical researchers to metaphorical concepts. It is concluded that it is necessary to take into account the definitions of the multivalent nature of concepts and ideas used in pedagogy.

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