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...s, and provide the basis for evaluating the validity of analyses. The root metaphor of contextualism is the "act in context," whereby any event is interpreted ...c world view. This is because the analytic tools of contextualism—its root metaphor and truth criterion—both hinge on the purpose of the analysis, and neithe

*Jerry Weist, ''Bradbury, an Illustrated Life: A Journey to Far Metaphor'', [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow & Company]] (2002). Hardcove

...are recognized as key concepts in Cognitive Linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces, etc. A second set Aspects of language studied include, meaning (semantics), metaphor, grammar, and many other aspects of the language facility as it relates to

...once a cavalry charge starts, there's really no way to turn back. A better metaphor might be the sacrifice of the U.S. torpedo bomber squadrons at the Battle o ...nd chose to make death as meaningful as possible. If one prefers a Western metaphor, consider ''HMS Birkenhead''? Glory. No.

** ZMET ([[Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique]])

...hors that can be understood - even to a level where the metaphor is only a metaphor and not the true scientific chemical or physical description or level of un

...taking pulses at the wrists.<ref>Yi-Li Wu, ''Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China'' (Berkeley: Univ. of California Pre Many people deny qi on scientific grounds (or see it as a metaphor rather than a real force), pointing to the better explanations given by sci

...n literary manifestations of the practice (Chaucer, Bunyan, etc.), and the metaphor of pilgrimage in the modern world. == Pilgrimage as a modern metaphor ==

"Slavery" is often used as a metaphor for total political domination by outsiders, or for forced labor under hars ==Metaphor==

...r a doomed attempt to get extreme individualists to collaborate; an ironic metaphor for the well-developed discipline of [[cattle drives]]. In actuality, if th

The use of symbolism in poetry is usually in the form of a [[simile]] or a [[metaphor]], although there are other elements of literature that can be employed to

...e again, nothing can now be done for him: there are no courses in remedial metaphor." - from ''The Stubborn Structure'' by Northrop Frye (Metheun 1970)

...imals or mythical personages. It is sometimes explained as an "extended [[metaphor]]". The term is also used to refer to those literary works with an allegor

::To extend the metaphor, one of the early slides might show green off-ramp (i.e., outbound interfa

...cribe the different histories combined in individual genomes and use [the] metaphor of a net to visualize the rich exchange and cooperative effects of HGT amon

...ithesis]], [[hyperbole]], [[metonymy]], and [[simile]]; all are species of metaphor. <ref>''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) pp.653–55</ ''The Philosophy of Rhetoric'' (1936), by [[I. A. Richards]], reports that '''metaphor''' is in two parts: the '''tenor''' and the '''vehicle'''. The tenor is the

...riveters and such changing aluminium panels on an aircraft in flight, as a metaphor for upgrading software systems without stopping business.

...style. In his early career his poems contain extensive [[lyric]]ism and [[metaphor]]s.

...pedagogy and educational reform; and (4) the nature, function, and use of metaphor.

...he sides of the men,..." looks a bit odd to me, are "actresses" meant as a metaphor for something else? The sentence doesn't really make sense, did something p