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metaphor

A high-level similarity between different things or processes. Metaphors can reflect a deep structural resonance or merely a superficial resemblance; cultural assumptions often rest on metaphors, which can be both incisive and misleading, valuable and dangerous.

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The frequency of metaphoric use and their potential for richer understanding of human behavior merits study within a managerial realm.

CEO Tweet Behavior: The Use of Metaphors and Gendered Communication Style

The ricorso, the re-turning from demotic to metaphoric language, will "open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds, [...] and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild" (OFS 6768).

The name of the ring: or, there and back again

Allegory, while typically considered a symbol, is also a metaphoric form in that it too entails replacing one phenomenon to represent another.

Incorporating the metaphors of daily life into the English/language arts curriculum

There are other recent examples in the Department of Defense of the creative use of metaphoric extensions and replacements.

Learning to swim in the ocean: creativity as a zone of analogy

The concept of metaphoric analogy that I am proposing is not derived directly from Rahner.

Interpreting Rahner's metaphoric logic

Gerhart and Russell described how the metaphoric process effects such cognitive changes within a person's Weltanschauung, which is an interconnected network of one's known concepts (nodes).

New maps for the journey: metaphoric process in ecumenical theology

Metaphoric statements can be developed only after basic language rules have been learned (Gentner, 1977, p.

Experience, instruction, and social environment: fourth and fifth grade students' use of metaphor

In their review of the supervision literature, Bernard and Goodyear recognized the potential of metaphor to facilitate supervisee development; however, they also noted that many supervisors are not accustomed to introducing metaphors or metaphoric activities into the supervision session.

The use of metaphor in clinical supervision

And while the metaphoric rudder will do the trick, the metaphoric golf club outlined his vision.

Aiming for Matt finish

Yes, I know that Fields was being metaphoric. While I've not been in his office, I am sure that it is a nice one.

Sell the furniture

For this study we relied on previous studies in news messages, metaphoric analysis, and election coverage.

The never-ending election of 2000: metaphoric expression by the press in the service of public political understanding of an uncertain election result

The origin of Morgan's model of metaphoric thinking is traced in his early epistemological preoccupations, in particular his need for a device to link the levels of paradigm and theory in his model.

Using metaphors to understand and to change organizations: a critique of Gareth Morgan's approach