Conceptual Metaphors and Mathematical Practice: On Cognitive Studies of Historical Developments in Mathematics

As Monika Fludernik (2011) points out, creative metaphors receive less attention than conceptual metaphors in cognitive studies. The complex role of metaphor in literature and its narrative function needs to be further explored. Realistic novellas do not display a predilection towards elaborate creative metaphors. They contain other figures of speech and more conventional figurative forms such as symbols, allegories and similes – the latter to approximate an experience or perception. My hypothesis is, however, that in realistic texts metaphorical agency is often contained and instigated by virtual micronarratives (digression, memory, association, imagination and dream). How does metaphoricity relate to virtual parts of the storyworld? In order to investigate this question I use Wilhelm Raabe’s poetic realist novella Keltische Knochen ( Celtic Bones, published 1864) as a case study. Raabe’s travel account shows how virtual passages can receive and entail a metaphorical dimension. In Raabe’s novella the narrator witness claims that it does not manipulate reality by rhetorical tricks and metaphorical transformations, and therefore makes a clear distinction between the virtual and real parts of the storyworld. At the same time this distinction is undermined because the virtual events interfere with the real events and transform them into metaphorical sequences. The metaphorical sequences open up alternative segments of the storyworld that can be coined as paranarratives. The case study exposes the negotiability and the co-text dependence of literary metaphoricity and contributes to the exploration of the narrative potential of figurativeness in literary texts.

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The New Zombie Apocalypse and Social Crisis in South Korean Cinema (translation into Russian)

Corpus Mundi ◽

10.46539/cmj.v2i4.53 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 40-59

Author(s):

Sung-Ae Lee

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Popular Culture ◽

Korean Cinema ◽

Conceptual Metaphors ◽

Social Crisis ◽

South Korean ◽

Cognitive Studies ◽

Costume Drama ◽

Korean Film

The popular culture version of the zombie, developed over the latter half of the twentieth century, made only sporadic appearances in South Korean film, which may in part be attributed to the restrictions on the distribution of American and Japanese films before 1988. Thus the first zombie film Monstrous Corpse (Goeshi 1980, directed by Gang Beom-Gu), was a loose remake of the Spanish-Italian Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (1974). Monstrous Corpse was largely forgotten until given a screening by KBS in 2011. Zombies don’t appear again for a quarter of a century. This article examines four zombie films released between 2012 and 2018: “Ambulance”, the fourth film in Horror Stories (2012), a popular horror portmanteau film; Train to Busan (2016) (directed by Yeon Sang-Ho), the first South Korean blockbuster film in the “zombie apocalypse” sub-genre; Seoul Station (2016), an animation prequel to Train to Busan (also directed by Yeon Sang-Ho); and Rampant (2018, directed by Kim Seong-Hun ), a costume drama set in Korea’s Joseon era. Based on a cognitive studies approach, this article examines two conceptual metaphors which underlie these films: the very common metaphor, LIFE IS A JOURNEY, and the endemically Korean metaphor THE NATION IS A FAMILY.

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Making and Breaking Mathematical Sense

10.23943/princeton/9780691171715.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Roi Wagner

Keyword(s):

Philosophy Of Mathematics ◽

Mathematical Practice ◽

Social Constraints ◽

Cognitive Studies ◽

Human Endeavor ◽

Institutional Contexts ◽

Underlying Reality ◽

Fixed Ideal ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Mathematical Signs

In line with the emerging field of philosophy of mathematical practice, this book pushes the philosophy of mathematics away from questions about the reality and truth of mathematical entities and statements and toward a focus on what mathematicians actually do—and how that evolves and changes over time. How do new mathematical entities come to be? What internal, natural, cognitive, and social constraints shape mathematical cultures? How do mathematical signs form and reform their meanings? How can we model the cognitive processes at play in mathematical evolution? And how does mathematics tie together ideas, reality, and applications? This book combines philosophical, historical, and cognitive studies to paint a fully rounded image of mathematics not as an absolute ideal but as a human endeavor that takes shape in specific social and institutional contexts. The book builds on case studies to confront philosophical reconstructions and cutting-edge cognitive theories. It focuses on the contingent semiotic and interpretive dimensions of mathematical practice, rather than on mathematics' claim to universal or fundamental truths, in order to explore not only what mathematics is, but also what it could be. Along the way, the book challenges conventional views that mathematical signs represent fixed, ideal entities; that mathematical cognition is a rigid transfer of inferences between formal domains; and that mathematics' exceptional consensus is due to the subject's underlying reality. The result is a revisionist account of mathematical philosophy that will interest mathematicians, philosophers, and historians of science alike.

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Toward a neuroscope: An application of high-performance computing for real-time evaluation of brain function using MRI

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100172346 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 922-923

Author(s):

C. S. Potter ◽

C. D. Gregory ◽

H. D. Morris ◽

Z.-P. Liang ◽

P. C. Lauterbur

Keyword(s):

Human Brain ◽

Brain Function ◽

High Performance ◽

Complex Signal ◽

Time Step ◽

Brain Organization ◽

Cognitive Studies ◽

Positron Emission ◽

Imaging And Spectroscopy ◽

3D Anatomy

Over the past few years, several laboratories have demonstrated that changes in local neuronal activity associated with human brain function can be detected by magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. Using these methods, the effects of sensory and motor stimulation have been observed and cognitive studies have begun. These new methods promise to make possible even more rapid and extensive studies of brain organization and responses than those now in use, such as positron emission tomography.Human brain studies are enormously complex. Signal changes on the order of a few percent must be detected against the background of the complex 3D anatomy of the human brain. Today, most functional MR experiments are performed using several 2D slice images acquired at each time step or stimulation condition of the experimental protocol. It is generally believed that true 3D experiments must be performed for many cognitive experiments. To provide adequate resolution, this requires that data must be acquired faster and/or more efficiently to support 3D functional analysis.

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Comparison of Alcohol Use Disorders in DSM and ICD

SUCHT - Zeitschrift für Wissenschaft und Praxis / Journal of Addiction Research and Practice ◽

10.1024/0939-5911/a000663 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 143-153

Author(s):

Jessica W. M. Wong ◽

Friedrich M. Wurst ◽

Ulrich W. Preuss

Keyword(s):

Alcohol Use Disorders ◽

International Classification Of Diseases ◽

Clinical Use ◽

Diagnostic Systems ◽

Statistical Manual ◽

Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽

Dsm 5 ◽

Classification Of Diseases ◽

Historical Developments

Abstract. Introduction: With advances in medicine, our understanding of diseases has deepened and diagnostic criteria have evolved. Currently, the most frequently used diagnostic systems are the ICD (International Classification of Diseases) and the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to diagnose alcohol-related disorders. Results: In this narrative review, we follow the historical developments in ICD and DSM with their corresponding milestones reflecting the scientific research and medical considerations of their time. The current diagnostic concepts of DSM-5 and ICD-11 and their development are presented. Lastly, we compare these two diagnostic systems and evaluate their practicability in clinical use.

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British foreign policy towards the Palestinian cause since 2003

Tikrit Journal For Political Science ◽

10.25130/poltic.v3i11.103 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (11) ◽

pp. 150

Author(s):

Mustafa Ibrahim Salman Al - Shammari ◽

Dhari Sarhan Hammadi Al-Hamdani

Keyword(s):

Foreign Policy ◽

Peace Process ◽

The Political ◽

Topic Area ◽

British Foreign Policy ◽

Settlement Policy ◽

Historical Developments ◽

Palestinian Question ◽

Theresa May

The topic area of that’s paper dealing with role of Britain in established of Israel, so the paper argued the historical developments of Palestinian question and Role of Britain Government toward peace process since 1992, and then its insight toward plan of Palestinian State. That’s paper also argued the British Policy toward Israeli violations toward Palestinians people, and increased with settlement policy by many procedures like demolition of houses, or lands confiscation, the researcher argued the Britain position toward that’s violations beside the political developments which happens in Britain after Theresa May took over the power in Ten Downing Street

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Complete the Process of Decolonization!

10.31132/2412-5717-2020-53-4-5-17 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 5-17

Author(s):

Leonid Fituni

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

60Th Anniversary ◽

Economic Exploitation ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

Un General Assembly ◽

New Interpretation ◽

Extraterritorial Jurisdiction ◽

Historical Developments ◽

External Dependence

December 14, 1960 marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption on the initiative of the USSR of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples by the XV Session of the UN General Assembly (GA). The author analyzes the significance of this act for the subsequent process of liberation of peoples from colonial rule from the perspective of the historical developments of the next six decades. The author comes up with a new interpretation of the diplomatic tactics chosen by the Soviet Union at the UN as well as in the confronting imperialist countries elsewhere on the timing of granting independence, ensuring the territorial integrity of the emerging young states, the presence of foreign bases and zones of extraterritorial jurisdiction on their land. The article provides a comparative analysis of the texts of the declaration proposed for consideration by the GA by the Soviet Union and the adopted version of the Declaration of the UN GA Resolution 1415 (XV). The author analyzes the situation in the world after the dismemberment of the USSR, from the perspective of the degree of completion of the decolonization process. He comes to the conclusion that in place of traditional colonialism, a project of a new global coloniality is being introduced, which preserves the fundamental and essential characteristics of actual colonial rule: external dependence and economic exploitation.

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A Glance Portrayal of Science Education in Indonesia

10.31219/osf.io/egy2n ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Adib Rifqi Setiawan

Keyword(s):

Science Education ◽

General Education ◽

Science Teachers ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Science Teacher Education ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

Professional Organizations ◽

Curriculum Innovation ◽

Global Science ◽

Historical Developments

The goal of this work is to describe pre- and in-service science teacher education and science education research in Indonesia in an effort to better inform the global science education community about historical developments and present challenges. We begin by providing an historical overview of the general education system to provide readers with context needed to understand current reform initiatives. Next we describe the current-day process for preparing and certifying science teachers and we describe some of the challenges facing teachers, students, and researchers in Indonesia’s science education context today. We follow this discussion with an introduction to some existing professional organizations for teachers and researchers in Indonesia that are working to develop important channels for disseminating current research on teacher practice, curriculum innovation, and student learning that have the potential to positively influence on teaching and learning in the future. We conclude by highlighting some areas that would benefit from additional research and by inviting more international collaborative research initiatives with colleagues in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

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