This volume gathers international, bilingual contributions on Metaphor and Translation. It explores themes from theory to literature and culture, offering useful conclusions on how metaphor is translated. An essential read for scholars, students, and professional translators.
Metaphor in Focus
This philosophical guide on metaphor use bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical research. It analyses the role of metaphor across diverse domains, presenting interdisciplinary connections with linguistics, cognitive science, economics, and more.
This book explores metaphor in legal discourse. Linguists and law professionals from six countries investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon through actual linguistic contexts, from court proceedings to judges’ argumentation.
Before Shakespeare, prefigurement and echo were not unknown. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in his tragedies was rare. Through metaphoric resonance, he revealed meanings lost without it. Who, even now, does this?
Metaphorical Imagination
Abdullah tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor in this book. He revisits the epistemology and ontology of evidence and challenges the dualist norms of social research, points to the failings, and flags up directions for researchers who take evidence seriously.
This book explores metaphors as instruments for describing, understanding, and inspiring education research. Authors show how metaphors provide new perspectives on the philosophical assumptions and methodological issues of research.
Honoring the work of Gyula Klima, this volume explores key issues in medieval logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. Contributions offer significant new insights on Ockham’s semantics, intentionality, Aquinas on genus and species, and Aristotle on demonstration.
This book opposes the dominant materialist view of the universe, which cannot adequately explain conscious phenomena. Taking the primacy of consciousness as a basic postulate, it argues for a metaphysical idealism where human nature is more spiritual than material.
Metaphysical Themes, Medieval and Modern (Volume 11
These essays engage the metaphysics of substance over eight centuries, shedding light on contemporary disputes and their historical roots. Topics range from the substance ontology of Thomas Aquinas to modern debates on hylomorphism and natural theology.
Metaphysics and ontology are fundamental philosophical concerns, yet history has revealed flawed conclusions built on dogma. The essays in this volume tackle this secular debate in fresh and original ways, providing tools for clearing the field of unpalatable items.
Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony
These essays argue for the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation. Delving into thinkers from Hegel to Wittgenstein, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being—a concept at odds with the mechanistic doxa under which modern science is compelled to operate.
This volume demonstrates how Chinese speakers use meta-level expressions to manage meaning, relationships, and discourse. It sheds light on how they monitor their speech, providing an important reference for researchers conducting cross-linguistic metapragmatic research.
Meteors that Enlighten the Earth
Napoleon blended Roman and French traditions to honor great men, comparing himself to Caesar and Charlemagne. This book analyzes his ever-changing personal cult of “great men” and his recognition of contemporaries who contributed to human civilization.
In his Meditations, Descartes sought the first principles of human knowledge, rejecting the senses for intuition and meditation. This book explains his reasoning and provides textual support, while a final critical chapter shows the failures of his approach.
This book addresses the changing nature of research methodologies in mathematics, science, health and environmental education. It has a singular focus on methodology as something worth considering in itself, bringing methodology to the forefront of educational research.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education research. This book maps key challenges and opportunities for a post-COVID world where method and methodology are as vital as findings. It explores issues from STEM research and design to analysis, complexity, and ethics.
The crises of the Anthropocene pressure us to rethink education. This volume responds to these challenges, casting fresh light on contemporary research methodologies fit for the future, exploring post-qualitative inquiry, arts-based methods, and co-design with teachers.
This book explores how research practices have profound implications for education. Authors think critically about research design, covering topics from co-design with teachers to system change, in a robust discussion that will inform and shape education systems for the future.
This volume promotes innovation in research methodologies for science, mathematics, health, and environmental education. Chapters present new methods to address global challenges like climate change, exploring queer theory, AI, arts-based studies, and socioscientific approaches.
This book presents new trends in teaching Spanish, focusing on Interaction and Grammar. It uses Cognitive Linguistics to clarify complex structures like the subjunctive and offers methodologies for dynamic, cooperative classroom interaction.
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