metaphor

Just how much of the subject matter does the photographer have to change before fact becomes fiction, or a photograph becomes metaphor?

One of the appeals of this movie to me was that there was no metaphor.

The reason the Keepers give the metaphor of a roller coaster is to make sure you think of this in terms of fun.

It may be the metaphor of that the unreligious is mortal , but I believe in nihility fatally .

Kelly: But as you note, some scientists say that this is not a metaphor: The universe we know is only information.

The "war" metaphor, incidentally, had been playing out for weeks, stoked by IBM and Jeopardy! to build public interest in the tournament.

Archimedean point is metaphor derived from Archimedes' alleged saying that if he had a fulcrum and a lever, he could move the earth.

The same metaphor, it seems to me, might apply to the G. O. P. pursuit of the White House next year.

Another cybernetician, Gerald Weinberg, supplies a fine metaphor for requisite complexity in his book On the Design of Stable Systems.

Washing your hands of a situation is a powerful metaphor. But scientists got to wondering could it be something more?

It should be careful that it doesn't also become a metaphor for trying to do too much.

The Wall, and the sense of incomprehension that goes with it, also stands as a metaphor for global investors' current worries.

I've been trying to think of a metaphor to represent Mission Blue, and this is what I came up with.

LOVE is an important component of the emotional life of human, which is usually conveyed by the measure of metaphor.

For him, the Great Wall was a metaphor for the way China's society was organised and its relationship with the rest of the world.

In the song Mayer uses the metaphor of driving away from his parents house, crying, in the dark.

He used a biblical metaphor: you only need one King David, and an army of soldiers who merely had to be able to carry out orders.

It means one of the best times is in the morning, metaphor a man should be in the morning to plan for the day.

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Don: I'm trying to write a poem to my sweetheart. Can you think of a good metaphor for love?

So if I had to think of some kind of occupation as a metaphor for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.

And it's sort of a metaphor for me for the virtual world.

This is a metaphor for how much we need love and how much we need to be needed.

He uses the word "currency" as a metaphor for an inner language to make sense of the world.

Despite the power of wind, water and fire, the garden appears as a metaphor of the weakness and vulnerability of the city and the culture.

XP uses "metaphor" in an attempt to define an overall coherent theme to which both developers and business clients can relate.

As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life.

In the tree metaphor, the leaves refer to elements that do not contain any other elements, like leaves on the end of a branch.

Implicit in this metaphor is the concept of the state as a work of art, shaped by the architect-like ruler into the proper form he desires.

In the new metaphor the whole planet and everything living and inert on it behaves "as if" it were a living organism.

There was no metaphor. Was it a database? A prototyping tool, a scripted language?

A superb teacher, with a fine grasp of the appropriate metaphor, and tailoring his teachings to the audience at hand.

Once we needed an icon for a data filter which is often portrayed using the metaphor of a funnel.

"She's just a fairy tale character others will read about. . . and metaphor for hope to me, " I replied with a wink.

She winked back, as if to prove that she wasn't just a metaphor.

It has been a metaphor for me in my adult years. Why wait to dance? Why let fear immobilize me? Why not act on intention, on desire?

Metaphor is not regarded as a rhetoric device at the early start. It takes a long time for metaphor to be changed into a rhetoric device.

The calf's battle and the herd's assist have become to me a metaphor for countless struggles taking place around the globe.

Secondly, Conceptual Metaphor Theory can be used to understand the vision metaphor in linguistic corpus of English and Chinese.

"We struggled to see in New Moon a metaphor of teen conformity and longing but found only a muddle, " sniffs the Hollywood Reporter.

That metaphor would extend to the rest of my family, too, but the little one is still in diapers - no smartphone yet.

And trying to find your boyfriend is a metaphor for you trying to find out "where he's at" psychologically.

The failure in Vietnam produced a new metaphor: Fighting a Third World country on hostile terrain was to be avoided at all costs.

Indeed, food is an excellent metaphor to explain what's wrong with the usual sort of job.

Describing the ETC is really hard, and I finally found a metaphor.

Metaphor: In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

The pictures are an integral part of Blake's artistic vision, adding further color and scope to his highly developed sense of metaphor.

The tea part is just a metaphor [on screen: a Fox News reporter pointing to boxes at one of the tea parties containing a million tea bags].

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage.

He gave an interesting metaphor example of a water pool with two pipes, one for inlet and the other for outlet.

A service resides in an abstract hosting environment known as a container and provides a specific programming metaphor.

But in fact, this metaphor of decline is often very misleading.

And the reasons for this coupling of the name Milton and of this idea or the metaphor of power, I think, are worth looking in to.

Consider the common symbolic metaphor used to describe the icon your looking to make. Sketch as much as necessary to lock down the concept.

Ah, wrong metaphor: U. S. strength derives as much from its dominion over the sea as its ability to project force over land.

But in the case of weaver ants in Africa, this description may be more than just a metaphor.

Or to use another metaphor, our inner world has a magnetic force that draws to us what we need to evolve to the next level.

Imagine that this (much longer than intended) story is a metaphor for how and where we invest our emotional dollars (emotional energy).

In a way, it's a fitting metaphor for the company's recent history: Often great at innovation, but always bad at business.

The form of the metaphor has close relation to the national culture and is an outcome of certain social culture.

I often tell startups to "skate where the puck is going" as a metaphor for thinking about where the future lies and planning for that now.

This thesis is an attempt to investigate into the relationship between metaphor and culture from the cognitive perspective.

One of the main pillars of jargon has always been metaphor, both sporting and mixed.

The sole aim of a metaphor is to call up a visual image.

Even if you've never taken a family vacation (or it's been a long time), I think you'll see the value of this cross-country trip metaphor.

"As if" operates like a simile, which is an explicit type of metaphor.

Two thousand years of invention and industrialization have only deepened the parallels of this metaphor.

The approach of cognitive description towards metaphor has highlighted the cognitive nature of metaphor itself.

The court-style poems reflect the psychological features of boudoirs by means of time image, space image and metaphor image, etc.

let's take this metaphor, blow it up and apply it to you and your life.

We make things real by first constructing them as a metaphor, an "as if" type.

That hurt more than anything else he might have said, because it reduced Amy to an ugly metaphor.

If we were to use a metaphor, we would say that you, as humanity, are on a great ocean vessel.

The essence of metaphor is thought, and language is the surface realization of thinking metaphorically .

I thought it to be like a metaphor of his fate sometimes.

Life is a great metaphor. Being or nothingness, just a modification of rhetoric.

"Light" is a proper and powerful metaphor for understanding the phenomenal nature of consciousness.

As he sipped his drink he tried out another metaphor, involving a gold panning technique he had learned about in New Zealand.

In a sense, Lam's work is simply a metaphor that personal spirituality exists whether one is aware of it or not.

The butterfly, with its otherworldly beauty and silence, is, of course, a common metaphor for the soul.

Before Qin Dynasty and in ancient Greece, taste had already been used as a kind of metaphor to discuss art.

The president delivered the joke at the White House press corps' annual shindig, but it makes an apt metaphor for the past week.

I seem to be floundering in a sea of metaphor.

My turn on the haystack metaphor has always been to say that if I dump the entire haystack on your head, does that help you find the needle?

Of course, signifying condensation, with its metaphorical effect, can be observed quite openly in any poetic metaphor.

Modern metaphor study grants it a cognitive sense and divides it into various types such as simile and implicit metaphor, etc.

What's useful to him as an expressive motion? You know, what's his metaphor for performance?

A metaphor for a carefully worded writing, which can be rendered perfect by only a slight alteration.

Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present.

To sustain the metaphor for a moment, a traditional subject of the political artist is social peace, defined as harmony, unity and comfort.

The seth believes this to be an "appropriate metaphor" and thus becomes known as Legion.

So the metaphor I'd like the use I can take from a story of a great idea that's quite recent -- a lot more recent than the 1650s.

There was part of that piece cut out in which I was stressing that every age reinterprets God with their own metaphor.

Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love.

This shows that education metaphor is one of the main characterizations of education language.

Unconsidered , yet a daily necessity - a clean pair of socks is a great metaphor for family love.

If you don't like that metaphor, try thinking of a pack of cards a mile high with an elephant perfectly balanced on the top.

The index software catches everything the spider can throw at it (yes, that's another metaphor).

What I love about this metaphor is how it works on two levels.

Using a gardening metaphor, he says our experience of life depends on which seeds we choose to water.

It is in that respect that the Borromean knot is the best metaphor of the fact that we proceed only on the basis of the One.

It's a fine metaphor for China's legal system: The hardware is impeccable, but the software is primitive.

Certain spoil-sports will claim that it's a metaphor for how dictator's use the world as their play thing, but do not be fooled.

The prostitute is a metaphor for you selling yourself short or not giving yourself enough value.

Or, to return to my musical metaphor, you will know which college is playing your tune.

The ship of state is going off the rails ' is mixed metaphor.

Also in this part the metaphor used in the IT terminology formation is discussed together with its importance.

Metaphor can be realized at various levels of linguistic organization, a word, phrase, clause or sentence, and discourse as well.

The role metaphor has proven to be very helpful in this context, bringing chaos to order.

Before a metaphor (image) is developed for an icon it is wise to see how it is done in other products.

The award, officially announced Tuesday during a news conference, appropriately paints a season that serves as a metaphor for a career.

Unsurprisingly, statements of religious doctrine activated parts of the brain that help decode metaphor and abstractness.

The "acrobat" is a metaphor for contemporary man in search of his lost humanistic identity.

Fortunately for Lehner, it wasn't just a metaphor that the Sphinx is a riddle.

She ultimately abandoned the logic she set out in "Illness as a Metaphor" (1978), which prescribed a cool acceptance of medical fact.

Metaphor. The metaphor is a simple shared story or description of how the system works.

Human body is the cognitive prototypical model of spatial metaphor, and the experience of the body is the base of metaphorical concepts.

Teachers may use conceptual metaphor theory to help students improve their reading comprehension in economics discourses.

Metaphor in traditional theories is taken only as a rhetorical device, or a figure of speech, which is only a matter of language.

The mechanisms of grammaticalization includes: metaphor, generalization, differentiation, mixture, loan-translation, analogy and automation.

Relationship between linguistic components can be properly constructed through the metaphor of chemical compounds.

The wreckage of the ship so famous it remains a metaphor nearly a century later is collapsing on itself two miles underwater.

This paper investigates into the explanatory power of conceptual metaphor theory for metaphor translation in cross cultural communication.

Say I'm contracting from you to have a certain business operation contract metaphor software performed on my behalf .

While it may fulfill a voyeuristic impulse, it was hard to make a business case for this social metaphor.

Conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual blending theory provide terms and frameworks for a cognitive analysis of the parable.

The building block metaphor is a useful way to think of a service-oriented architecture.

The system metaphor in XP is analogous to what most methodologies call architecture.

Such an inevitable conflict, together with the impracticability of Philosophical Education, is vividly illustrated in Plato's Cave-Metaphor.

A 'Memory Palace' is a metaphor for any well-known place that you're able to easily visualize.

An eloquent one, written with a skilful brush and delivered with a flower that echoed its central metaphor, would win her heart.

Like flowers built of a millefeuille of paper, Ms Peacock builds a life out of layers of metaphor.

Many saw Bob as the next advance in software after the desktop-and-folders metaphor pioneered by Apple's Macintosh a decade before.

Mouse vision is an American Indian metaphor for adopting a mind-set focused directly and completely on whatever is in front of you.

It is an attempt to use a current language and syntax and perspective and metaphor to describe an eternal thing.

Or, to use his metaphor, they are struggling to find any workable "compass" in these new, stormy waters.

One of the greatest advantages of relevance theory is that it solves the dilemma of indeterminacy and determinacy of metaphor implicature.

The facts show that the polysemy came into being by metaphor, metonymy, image schema and other cognitive models.

I mean, the metaphor I've used is . . . somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them.

In the debate he used the powerful metaphor of a thrombosis on a human body to describe the impact of lack of trust in banks on the economy.

Metaphor was an important means of expressing time in Chinese.

According to cognitive metaphor theories, a metaphor is an important means to understand an abstract concept.

For users able to accept this metaphor, this provided usable, if less than ideal support.

One day he had an experience that was a "perfect metaphor for my life at the time" .

Metcalfe saw it as an apt metaphor for a medium that would propagate information.

As far as the producing mechanism is concerned, in the cognitive perspective, through analyzing, we find out that pun is a form of metaphor.

In the process of metaphor, English thinking can be developed and the efficiency in vocabulary acquisition can be improved as well.

Sculpture is a metaphor of the human experience. Life is an enigma and my work reflects some aspects of this mystery.

Cognitive linguistics has abandoned the idea that metaphor is only a figure of speech.

And the metaphor is made flesh (or, at least cloth) in many plays and films where the baddy wears black and the goody white.

The result of the research indicates that grammatical metaphor is pervasive in the language of contact.

The apartment is one example: It's a metaphor for the woman's relationship with her boyfriend.

As we imagine a future for media, this simple basketball metaphor seems to resonate.

This thesis is trying to make an initial research on teaching metaphor in China from a theoretical perspective.

Remembering that within every man is a knight in shining armor is a powerful metaphor to help you remember a man's primary needs.

Conceptual metaphor is a primary way and a powerful tool for conceptualizing abstract and intangible categories.

During these days of serving by Rinpoche's side, I found he used to employ humorous metaphor and story to convey his meaning cleverly.

This study concludes that relevance theory is powerful and effectively an account of metaphor.

By means of metaphor, research on the nationality consciousness and social psychology of the Russian can be done.

Verbal metaphor may be defined as a special lexical and cognitional semantics phenomenon within the frames of predicate and discourse.

The metaphor can be identified and proved by the theory of free time, free activity and humans free and overall development.

Rhetorical approach also makes a large number of new words, the main rhetorical device is metaphor, metonymy, anthropomorphic.

The methodology is complicated, but can be summarized through a geographic metaphor.

The use of metaphor and imagery may help the writer give voice to emotional undertones that would otherwise be hard to put into words.

It's not just a metaphor for an emotional punch.

She is but a metaphor to help explain the polarity of our reality - the yin energies vs. the male yang energies - Adam.

Something about this detail suddenly throbbed with metaphor, I'm afraid.

This story is just a metaphor for the rest of us in our lives.

What emerged was a formula that consists, in short, in translating the formula that I gave of the metaphor.

In life, we closely linked with food, dress, movies, behavior of metaphor are always exists, and for our life a wonderful speech can.

Story metaphor violation of the objective laws of development of things, impatient for success, but a bad thing.

What is the meaning of this metaphor? In some cases, it is all too simple and clear.

The idiom "Wait by a stump for a hare" is a metaphor for wanting to obtain something without expending one's own effort.

Metaphor and metonymy, the two basic human cognitive means, play an important role in the formation of these cyber new words.

And its meaning is to use the evergreen as the metaphor of the emotion between brothers.

It is important to remember that having everyone understand how the system fits together is critical, not a beautiful metaphor.

Like the metaphor, although every time netting fish only cost one mesh, but if you want to net fish, it is a must to weaving a fish net.

A train journey seemed not only a perfect metaphor for the experience, but it also gave us time to sort out some of our new moves.

Like the Windows registry, the Preferences API uses a hierarchical tree metaphor to store data.

As a matter of fact, the interaction between auditory sensations and non-auditory experience brings about synesthetic metaphor.

"Seven head of cattle, " "seven stalks of rice, " Pharaoh "Seven" like a dream, it is a metaphor of the human life cycle.

When used to pin down abstract concepts or unusual design details, design by metaphor or simile bridges a major gap of understanding.

Metaphor is highlighted as a way of cognition in the foreign language teaching field throughout the world.

The novel seems to the world of justice in this metaphor and evil is a fight to how weak, but it is the reality!

But, in the 2010 State of the Union address, President Obama adopted exactly the same metaphor and began using it incessantly.

Besides, they also point out image schemas do not say very much about things, and structural metaphor may be provided to help do more.

The same metaphor of the money changer is found in the Stoics and in early Christian literature but with different meanings.

It seemed like an apt metaphor, so she asked her blog's readers to fund the request.

Metaphor, as an artistic technique of expression, usually makes the modern literature arts richer in structure and deeper in significance.

Judy in orphanages to care for children, do desk, accounting, I suddenly thought of this metaphor a women's traditional role.

It seemed an apt metaphor for the confusion of the push-and-pull between the Army and the protesters on the Square over the past months.

Can you think of a good metaphor for love?

Finally, combining the metaphor of these two works, the thesis reveals the human concern under the veil of political interest.

but it cemented his reputation as a writer who could use the American landscape as a metaphor to tremendous effect.

Metaphors should suggest a use for a particular element, but that use doesn't have to limit the implementation of the metaphor.

The biological metaphor illustrates one of the fundamental properties of classes in Java.

Nevertheless, "bi" to be discussed in this chapter mainly refers to such ways of imagery thinking as metaphor, analogy and contrast.

When a source domain is construed in the same way in two language environments, the metaphor meaning is universal.

Conceptual metaphor, reflection of our thinking and behavior, pervasively exists in various cultures and language systems.

Blindman's bluff being courtship, and the rhythmic rocking of the seesaw would clearly be a metaphor for the act of lovemaking itself.

The independent and dependent variables are metaphor awareness enhancing teaching approaches and vocabulary acquisition respectively.

But the question now is whether "containment" is also the right metaphor for Afghanistan, and for the threat of Islamic extremism.

Poem is a unique linguistic form with metaphor, so it is called "metaphorical language" .

We give Chinese animal's metaphor a interpretation to the theory of using Lakoff: Understand and experience people through the animal.

the problems in the emotional and cultural furniture design can be settled through the methods of metaphor and contextual.

This is not to say that Tim's walking is some clunky metaphor. Mr Ferris is wise enough not to teach a lesson.

Besides, metaphor is an important means of man's understanding of the world.

Sidebar: the metaphor that I often use to explain Aristotle's ideas is that of planting a tree.

More vivid metaphor, with the seeds of tolerance, must quote rates for the United States and Germany flowers.

Therefore there is form of ontology, Yu and the three components of the word metaphor.

Ghosd is written in part as a library of functions to help your applications use the on-screen display design metaphor.

The comprehension of metaphor to a large extent depends on the mastery of the target language's culture.

Teachers usually have rich metaphor expressions in different vocational speech settings, which are of great educational value.

On a piece of A4 paper, choose a metaphor from the list or one of your.

After all, when you go for broke in business, it isn't just a metaphor: it could well be the reality.

But I think the point is that this is metaphor with teeth.

By stating that "refinement" is an aesthetic metaphor, the counteraction of aesthetic modernity to social modernity is unfolded.

A common metaphor used in this regard is that of mountains and molehills.

Metaphor, as a creative thinking ability, is an important way for human beings to recognize the world, especially abstract things.

Study on metaphor could be traced back to Aristotle in Ancient Greek and witnessed multi schools with different viewpoints until today.

In Zola's L'Argent, the rise and fall of a bank provides a metaphor for the rottenness of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire.

Considering the metaphor of gaming with respect to IT career development can help you maximize your opportunities.

Speaking customers' language through metaphor offers a means of communicating with them more deeply.

Therefore, Chinese English learners can learn vocabulary through metaphor and organize their retention in a systematic and vivid way.

Thirdly, such a diffuse discussion in our perspective on the objectivity of the metaphor, it can be said of everywhere in the exhibition.

Mine is a simulacrum for life, a reflection on experience and a metaphor for understanding my existence.

And all these conversations followed the same arc: They began with a bad metaphor and ended with the revelation of ulterior motives.

Because a man can't live on bread and water alone (which in this metaphor stand for naked women of your own race).

Dead metaphor, being a special kind of metaphor, has not been taken into systematic research.

I saw his goal as a perfect metaphor for the big dreams many college kids have for life after graduation.

The word, 'space' in literary works functions as a symbol, or a metaphor.

In the hands of any but the subtlest writer, this is so obvious a metaphor as to be unworkable.

Cohesion is an important factor of discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor in discourse can help to guarantee discourse cohesion.

THE humble but industrious ant has long served as a metaphor for the economic virtues of simplicity, parsimony and diligence.

In her lyrics green light is a metaphor for happiness people look forward to and seek bravely for.

In the Playroom is a metaphor for the impossibility of a protective space safe from the reach of modern media.

Cognitive metaphor replenishes cultural contents, hands down cultural information and enriches cultural implication.

And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and rolling, long after Elvis has left the building.

Comparatively speaking, Conceptual Metaphor Theory advanced by Lakoff and Johnson is a systematic and complete theory of metaphor.

And the content of the relationship includes reflection vs. experience, observation vs. behavior, metaphor vs. cognition and subconscious.

This paper aims to analyze and interpret the Yao epic Mi LuoTuo in terms of the embodied view, the metaphor view and the prominent view.

Through statistics, the author finds that interpersonal grammatical metaphor is amply employed in American presidents? inaugural addresses.

These serially published paper works, emerging in the electronic world where letters have elapsed, are a delicate metaphor by themselves.

Through your coaching, a team may create their own metaphor to help guide them through turbulent or exciting times.

The paper discusses metaphor theory of cognitive linguistics as well as its guidance for English words teaching.

For reasons not very obscure, we always prefer in practice what might be called the cash-value expression to the 'indirect' metaphor.

Based on this viewpoint, it argues that there is no clear-cut distinction between metaphor and metonymy regarding "activation" .

A contemporary observer described the king as being 'married to his army' and the metaphor was, in this case, not overblown.

With this metaphor, it could be logically asserted that lightning is the weather system equivalent of communication among clouds.

In the case of design, the metaphor intentionally misrepresents the science so as to make a doctrinal point.