Designing a Video-Mediated Collaboration System Based on a Body Metaphor

Cscl 2 ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 431-470
Keyword(s):  
Body Metaphor

Treating psychogenic somatic disorders through body metaphor

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linni J. Silberman-Deihl ◽  
Barry R. Komisaruk
Keyword(s):  
Body Metaphor ◽  
Somatic Disorders

The Malady of the Christian Body: A Theological Exposition of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, Volume 1; The Therapy of the Christian Body: A Theological Exposition of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, Volume 2

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-193
Author(s):  
Harm-Jan Inkelaar
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
Body Metaphor

SummaryFirst Corinthians is a letter that deals with many issues concerning living in a Christian community, and therefore a promising guide for matters that concern churches today. As the title of the two-volume work indicates the body metaphor is seen as characteristic for the apostle’s vision. The authors engage in a fruitful dialogue with the letter, even though its historical background could have received more attention, just like the function of the chapters on cross and resurrection. But of course the intention of the writers was a theological commentary with ecclesiology as its centre.RÉSUMÉLa première épître aux Corinthiens aborde de nombreuses questions relatives à la vie d’une communauté chrétienne et constitue donc un guide prometteur pour bien des problèmes que les Églises rencontrent aujourd’hui. Comme l’indique le titre des deux volumes, la métaphore du corps est considérée comme caractéristique de la vision de l’apôtre. Les auteurs entrent en dialogue avec la lettre de manière fructueuse, même si l’on peut regretter que l’arrière-plan historique n’ait pas reçu plus d’attention, ainsi que la fonction des chapitres sur la croix et la résurrection. Mais l’intention des auteurs était de réaliser un commentaire théologique centré sur l’ecclésiologie.ZusammenfassungDer erste Korintherbrief befasst sich mit vielen Anliegen, die das Leben in einer christlichen Gemeinschaft betreffen, und ist daher ein verheißungsvoller Leitfaden bei Fragen, die Gemeinden von heute haben. Wie dem Titel des zweibändigen Werkes zu entnehmen ist, wird die Leibmetapher als charakteristisch für die Sicht des Apostels angesehen. Die Autoren begeben sich in einen fruchtbaren Dialog mit dem Brief, auch wenn dessen historischer Hintergrund mehr Aufmerksamkeit erhalten haben könnte; dies gilt auch für die Kapitel über Kreuz und Auferstehung, Doch natürlich lag die Absicht der Autoren in einem theologischen Kommentar mit Ekklesiologie als dessen Herzstück.

‘Seeing’ is ‘trying’: The relation of visual perception to attemptive modality in the world's languages

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaly Voinov
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Related Notion ◽  
Serial Verbs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Syntactic Context

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship between the concepts of ‘seeing’ and ‘attempting/trying’ in various languages. These concepts have so far been found to be co-lexified in languages spoken in Eurasia, Papua New Guinea, India and West Africa, with an added implicature of politeness present in some languages when this lexical item is used in directives. After establishing a cross-linguistic sample, the paper proposes a specific grammaticalization mechanism as responsible for producing this semantic relationship. The explanation centers on a process involving metaphorical transfer, the loss of semantic features, generalization, and a specific syntactic context conducive to this meaning shift. First, the Mind-as-Body metaphor is applied to the mind-related notion of ‘seeing an object’ to derive the body-related notion of ‘controlling an object’, as has previously been demonstrated to be the case in the history of certain Indo-European languages. Second, semantic bleaching causes the meaning component of physical sight to be lost from the overall meaning of the morpheme, and semantic generalization allows attempted actions to be mentally treated the same as physical objects that are manipulated. Finally, the context in which this meaning shift occurs is posited as constructions involving multiverbs, such as serial verbs or converbs.

scholarly journals FROM THE MONARCHY TREE TO NATION: THE USE OF METAPHORS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Ludmila Pimenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Human Body ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Republic

The article examines three legal treatises written between the late 16th and late 18th centuries, whose authors used the language of metaphors, analyzing also the way this language was reflected in images. Both jurists and artists tried to demonstrate to their readers and spectators that society was unified and, at the same time, consisted of estates unequal in their status. For this purpose, metaphors of the human body, tree, army, and family were used. Over the period under discussion, the attitude towards metaphors changed significantly. Although the possibility of using the language of metaphors to adequately describe and know society was put into doubt more than once in the 17th and 18th centuries, contemporaries did not abandon this language. In the 18th century, many of the usual metaphors were rethought in Enlightenment literature, as well as in journalism and propaganda texts published on the eve of the French Revolution. The body metaphor received a new interpretation within the framework of the social contract concept, while the image of France as the king’s spouse was transformed into the figure of Marianne the Republic.

scholarly journals Paulus se liggaam-metafoor in 1 Korintiërs 12 in literêr-historiese konteks

2006 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Goede ◽  
Fika J. Van Rensburg
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Literary Context ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Relationship

Paul’s body metaphor in 1 Corinthians 12 in literary contextThe purpose of this article is to place and describe Paul’s use of the body metaphor in 1 Corinthians 12 in its literary context. By way of introduction, the importance of a proper understanding of Paul’s use of the body metaphor is indicated. The first part of the article deals with the origin and use of the body metaphor in ancient times, thereby establishing the literary context within which Paul used the metaphor. Greek, Roman and Jewish usage is described. In the second part of the article the focus moves to Paul’s use of the metaphor within its literary context. It is concluded that the body metaphor was well-known to Greek, Roman and Jewish readers, and was thus ideally suited to Paul’s unique communication of the relationship between Christ and his church.

THE USE OF BODY METAPHOR IN DESCRIBING THE SOCIAL IN CHRISTINE DE PIZAN’S “THE BOOK OF THE BODY POLITIC”

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Pavel Bychkov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Political ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Order Scheme ◽  
Body Metaphor

The article analyzes «The Book of the Body Politic» (1404–1407) by Christine de Pizan to show how she updated the metaphor of body politic traditional for the Middle Ages, and what were the reasons for the creation of this treatise. In it, Christine excluded the clergy from the tripartite social order scheme: in the political body the sovereign replaced the pope and the clergy. Instead of the Church playing the leading role as the ‘soul’ of society, the author introduced humanistic concepts of "good arising from the virtue" and "morals". Christine also included the third estate in the political life of a kingdom, providing its stratification and hierarchization, and giving a profound description of its role in the body politic. The metaphorical concept of " body politic" broke away from the ecclesiastical and mystical connotations and took root in the secular, political-philosophical tradition.

Online Life and Online Bodies

2011 ◽  
pp. 946-951
Author(s):  
Jonathan Marshall
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
As If

Bodies are often claimed to be irrelevant to online activity. Online space, or activity, is frequently described as if disembodied, and often this absence of visible bodies is said to contribute to freedom from social pressures around gender, race, and body type (Reid, 1996). However, without bodies, people could not access the Internet, and online there are continual references, directly and indirectly, to bodies, so the term disembodied references a particular type of “ghost” body. Therefore, rather than accepting ideas that naturalise dislocating life online from bodies, it is necessary to explore the situations in which this occurs. Another commonly used body metaphor is the cyborg: the melding of human with machine. In both cases, the body is usually taken as underlying what is happening and as a referent for authenticity.

"Can I Have Your Autograph?"

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
Gregory Fewster
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Paul's Letters ◽  
Historical Methods

Historicist authorship paradigms have reached a crisis in terms of their ability to successfully designate the authenticity or inauthenticity of Paul's letters. A thematic analysis of the body metaphor in the Pauline letters bears this out. This article proposes alternative ways of thinking about authorship by developing Derrida's author signature. The author is not a historical figure to be discovered by objective historical methods. Instead, the author is an emerging discursive figure caught in the contested space of historical imagination.

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