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| | Metaphor - Factbites |
 | | Most books give rather boring examples of metaphors such as my father is a bear or the librarian was a beast. | | | Metaphors are the Writing on the Cosmic Wall | | | Middle English methaphor, from Old French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, transference, metaphor, from metapherein, to transfer : meta-, meta- + pherein, to carry; see bher- |
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http://www.factbites.com/topics/Metaphor
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| | Metaphor |
| | The Greek etymology is from meta, implying "a change" and pherein meaning "to bear, or carry". | | | From the Latin and Greek metaphora, the transferring of the meaning of one word to another word. | | | Metaphor is one of the most common figures of speech and many words have their origin in metaphor. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Metaphor.html
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| | Conceptual metaphor - definition of Conceptual metaphor in Encyclopedia |
| | This knowledge is presumed to be largely unconscious and to emerge in language acquisition. | | | A consequence of this would be great difficulty in learning a new natural language in adult life, which does seem to be the case. | | | This 2001 Summary of the embodiment hypothesis (http://zakros.ucsd.edu/~trohrer/embodiment.pdf) within cognitive linguistics situates this theory among other theories of embodiment in fields ranging from cognitive anthropology to cognitive neuroscience |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Conceptual_metaphor
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Desktop metaphor - Encyclopedia Article |
| | A more user-oriented approach is gaining favour, where the user can organise documents in a manner that facilitates his or her particular needs, rather than being forced to use a file-system view of the system. | | | A document can be opened into a window, which represents a paper copy of the document placed on the desktop. | | | In this metaphor, the monitor of a computer represents the user's desktop, upon which documents and folders of documents can be placed. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/d/desktop-metaphor.html
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