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Author : Andrew S. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108837286
Introduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.
Author : Elena Semino,Zsófia Demjén,Andrew Hardie,Sheila Payne,Paul Rayson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317245216
This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at the end of life) in the UK. It focuses on metaphor as a central linguistic and cognitive tool that is frequently used to talk and think about sensitive and subjective experiences, such as illness, emotions, death, and dying, and that can both help and hinder communication and well-being, depending on how it is used. The book centers on a combination of qualitative analyses and innovative corpus linguistic methods. This methodological assemblage was applied to the systematic study of the metaphors used in a 1.5-million-word corpus. The corpus consists of interviews with, and online forum posts written by, members of three stakeholder groups, namely: patients diagnosed with advanced cancer; unpaid carers looking after a relative with a diagnosis of advanced cancer; and healthcare professionals. The book presents a range of qualitative and quantitative findings that have implications for: metaphor theory and analysis; corpus linguistic and computational approaches to metaphor; and training and practice in cancer care and hospice, palliative and end-of-life care.
Author : James Geary
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0061710296
From President Obama’s political rhetoric to the bursting of the housing bubble, from conversations to commercials, James Geary shows that every aspect of our day-to-day experience is molded by metaphor. Geary takes readers from Aristotle’s investigation of metaphor right up to the latest neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. Witty, persuasive, and original, I Is an Other explores metaphor’s effects on financial decision making, effective advertising, leadership, learning, and more. Romeo’s exclamation “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” may be one of the most well-known metaphors in literature, but metaphor is more than a device of love-struck poets. As Geary demonstrates, metaphor has leaped off the page and landed with a mighty splash right in the middle of the stream of consciousness.
Author : Mark Jordan Landau
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433815796
This book explores the possibility that metaphor is a cognitive tool that people routinely use to understand abstract concepts (such as morality) in terms of superficially dissimilar concepts that are relatively easier to comprehend (such as cleanliness).
Author : Neil Katz
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452574813
Life Is a Metaphor is an experiential, light-hearted look at improving the quality of life by examining thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Join in this journey from the Starting Point to the Journey Without and finally the Journey Within. Learn how to look at life in a new and exciting way that can open up new horizons for self-discovery. Enjoy thinking positively, experience emotions that feel good, and practise behaviours that are productive and proactive.
Author : James Geary
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062041777
For lovers of language and fans of Blink and Freakonomics, New York Times bestselling author James Geary offers this fascinating look at metaphors and their influence in every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market. From President Obama’s political rhetoric to the bursting of the housing bubble, from conversations to commercials, James Geary shows that every aspect of our day-to-day experience is molded by metaphor. Geary takes readers from Aristotle’s investigation of metaphor right up to the latest neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. Romeo’s exclamation “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” may be one of the most well-known metaphors in literature, but metaphor is more than a device of love-struck poets. As Geary demonstrates, metaphor has leaped off the page and landed with a mighty splash right in the middle of the stream of consciousness. Witty, persuasive, and original, I Is an Other explores metaphor’s effects on financial decision making, effective advertising, leadership, learning, and more.
Author : Mark J. Landau
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781315312002
Sex -- Commitment -- Conflict -- Loneliness and Rejection Hurt-Literally? -- Relationships as a Source -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Intergroup Relations -- Metaphors of Group Membership -- Metaphors of Intergroup Emotions -- Up/Down -- Light/Dark -- Warm/Cold -- Clean/Dirty -- Human/Not Human -- Metaphors of Society: What Is and What Could Be -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Political and Health Discourse -- Political Discourse -- Health Discourse -- What to Do? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Author : Maria Konnikova
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780525522638
The New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.
Author : Denise Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692403442
During His earthly ministry, Jesus taught people using parables, similes and metaphors. This book of devotional readings will help people today see how Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, still uses metaphors to teach us about God, sin and His everlasting kingdom. Readers will encounter Jesus speaking metaphorically in their daily lives so their understanding of God in Christ will grow deeper and their faith in the Lord will grow stronger.
Author : Raymond W. Gibbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107071148
The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. This book explores the critical role that conceptual metaphors play in language, thought, cultural and expressive actions. It evaluates the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.
Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602245135
Author : Ning Yu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902722353X
This volume aims to contribute to the theory of metaphor from the viewpoint of Chinese, in order to help place the theory into a wider cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. It focuses on metaphors of emotion, the "time as space" metaphor and the Event Structure Metaphor.
Author : Karen Reivich,Andrew Shatte, Ph.D.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780767911917
Resilience is a crucial ingredient–perhaps the crucial ingredient–to a happy, healthy life. More than anything else, it's what determines how high we rise above what threatens to wear us down, from battling an illness, to bolstering a marriage, to carrying on after a national crisis. Everyone needs resilience, and now two expert psychologists share seven proven techniques for enhancing our capacity to weather even the cruelest setbacks. The science in The Resilience Factor takes an extraordinary leap from the research introduced in the bestselling Learned Optimism a decade ago. Just as hundreds of thousands of people were transformed by "flexible optimism," readers of this book will flourish, thanks to their enhanced ability to overcome obstacles of any kind. Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté are seasoned resilience coaches and, through practical methods and vivid anecdotes, they prove that resilience is not just an ability that we're born with and need to survive, but a skill that anyone can learn and improve in order to thrive. Readers will first complete the Resilience Questionnaire to determine their own innate levels of resilience. Then, the system at the heart of The Resilience Factor will teach them to: • Cast off harsh self-criticisms and negative self-images • Navigate through the fallout of any kind of crisis • Cope with grief and anxiety • Overcome obstacles in relationships, parenting, or on the job • Achieve greater physical health • Bolster optimism, take chances, and embrace life In light of the unprecedented challenges we've recently faced, there’s never been a greater need to boost our resilience. Without resorting to feel-good pap or quick-fix clichés, The Resilience Factor is self-help at its best, destined to become a classic in the genre.
Author : George Lakoff,Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226470993
The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language.
Author : William Golding
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571290581
A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics. Now fully revised and updated, this educational edition includes chapter summaries, comprehension questions, discussion points, classroom activities, a biographical profile of Golding, historical context relevant to the novel and an essay on Lord of the Flies by William Golding entitled 'Fable'. Aimed at Key Stage 3 and 4 students, it also includes a section on literary theory for advanced or A-level students. The educational edition encourages original and independent thinking while guiding the student through the text - ideal for use in the classroom and at home.