The Metaphorical Analysis of Color Aesthetics in Parasite

The purpose of this study is to describe female students’ experiences in an engineering living-learning program using metaphorical analysis through a constructivist theoretical perspective. Extant literature uses metaphors from a negative viewpoint or a deficit model to describe the experiences of female undergraduates in engineering; however, new metaphors have not been used to describe the experience. This study aims to fill existing gaps in LLP literature using qualitative methods. Data from 13 semi-structured individual interviews (7 initial interviews and 6 follow-up interviews) serve as the primary data source. After conducting metaphorical analysis, I found five interpretive metaphors emerging: LLP as a Starting Point, LLP as a Neighborhood, Engineering Classes as Challenges, Different as Normal, and Female Engineers as a Support System. Two significant findings were found: advantage-based metaphors are used to provide a positive description of women in engineering and metaphorical analysis is an appropriate method for conducting research under the constructivist theoretical perspective.

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The Persuasive Power of Religious Metaphor in Selected Qur’anic and Biblical Verses

Al-Adab Journal ◽

10.31973/aj.v2i135.816 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (135) ◽

pp. 11-32

Author(s):

Hayder Sadeq Naser ◽

Ali Badeen Mohammed

Keyword(s):

Human Life ◽

Target Language ◽

Religious Texts ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Persuasive Power ◽

Living Dead ◽

Symbolic Meanings ◽

Intensive Investigation ◽

Metaphorical Analysis

The issue of identifying metaphors is not clear-cut in most religious texts (Charteris-Black, 2005). For metaphors that are dealt with by religious texts such as human life as a journey or as a game, a prayer as a flowing river, the living martyrs (the living dead), a taste of death, the journey of the dead and “die, yet shall he live” are mostly spiritual matters for which academic appraisal is essential (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Gibbs, 2008). That is, the quality of the explanations that are presented by such metaphors need an intensive investigation, because these are the key function of metaphor in religious texts. Moreover, metaphors in sacred texts may be misjudged due to: the absence of the image in the target language and the different symbolic meanings of metaphor in the source text. Therefore, we aim to tackle such a problem via analysing the different forms and functions of metaphors in selected Qur’anic and Biblical verses. To operate such metaphorical analysis, a two-dimensional model is adapted from two different discourse analysts: aI-Sakaaki (2000) and Lakoff & Johnson (1980). The study reveals how the persuasive power of metaphor in the Qur’anic and Biblical verses related are regulated around the diversity of ontological, structural and orientational forms, and how every correlation between two domains of metaphors can shape its functions.

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Insight into color aesthetics from probabilistic perception modeling

Color Research & Application ◽

10.1002/col.22216 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 527-543 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael S. Bittermann

Keyword(s):

Color Aesthetics ◽

Insight Into

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From Virtual Organization to E-Business

Transformations in E-Business Technologies and Commerce ◽

10.4018/978-1-61350-462-8.ch010 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 163-175

Author(s):

James J. Lee ◽

Bandula Jayatilaka ◽

Ben B. Kim ◽

Ted E. Lee ◽

Pairin Katerattanakul ◽

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Keyword(s):

Grounded Theory ◽

Social Structure ◽

21St Century ◽

Power Distribution ◽

Virtual Organization ◽

Structuration Theory ◽

Business Organizations ◽

The Social ◽

Metaphorical Analysis ◽

Analytical Power

This article shows how the technical hype of 1990s has been transformed into the e-business organizations at the beginning of the 21st century. The authors took an interpretive stance in this study, grounded theory, and investigated the ontology of virtual organization by the metaphorical analysis. The metaphorical analysis adopted in this study provides the analytical power to conceptualize the social structure of virtual organization in the context of structuration theory with the process of grounded theory. As the e-business structuration indicates in this study, virtualization, the metaphor of virtual organization is interpreted as flexible domination, where the rational relationships in power distribution with other e-business characterized temporal (virtual) bond with low switching costs.

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