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Binders full of women with mighty pens: What is metonymy | Metaphor Hacker
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Binders full of women with mighty pens: What is metonymy. December 14, 2013. Listen to this Post. Metonymy in the wild. Things were not going well for Mitt Romney in early autumn of last year. And then he responded to a query about gender equality with this sentence:. 8220;I had the chance to pull together a cabinet, and all the applicants seemed to be men I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks? This became a very funny. Metonymy vs. synechdoche. Where something stands...
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Gender | Metaphor Hacker
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What does it mean when words ‘really’ mean something: Dismiss the Miss. May 17, 2014. Listen to this Post. A few days ago, I tweeted a link to an article in TES. What Miss really means It’s always worthwhile re-examining ingrained inequalities http:/ t.co/GKhjc4VgUP. Dominik Lukes (@techczech) May 17, 2014. Today, I got the following response back:. 8216;really means’ talks about origins. It doesn’t mean that to me now. Elizabeth Hayton (@lizzielh) May 17, 2014. And even before, people have been trying t...
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What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action | Metaphor Hacker
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What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action. March 4, 2014. Listen to this Post. The role of metaphor in science debate (Background). What is not a metaphor? Brute facts of tiny ontology. Metaphor as model (or What is metaphor). Action as an example of modelling. The languages of metaphor: Or how a metaphor do. The role of metaphor in science debate (Background). In particular, I liked Felicity Mellor and Richard Bronk. What is not a metaphor? Was much more s...
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What does it mean when words ‘really’ mean something: Dismiss the Miss | Metaphor Hacker
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What does it mean when words ‘really’ mean something: Dismiss the Miss. May 17, 2014. Listen to this Post. A few days ago, I tweeted a link to an article in TES. What Miss really means It’s always worthwhile re-examining ingrained inequalities http:/ t.co/GKhjc4VgUP. Dominik Lukes (@techczech) May 17, 2014. Today, I got the following response back:. 8216;really means’ talks about origins. It doesn’t mean that to me now. Elizabeth Hayton (@lizzielh) May 17, 2014. And even before, people have been trying t...
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Philosophy of Science | Metaphor Hacker
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Category Archives: Philosophy of Science. What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action. March 4, 2014. Listen to this Post. The role of metaphor in science debate (Background). Recently, the LSE podcast an interesting panel on the subject of “Metaphors and Science”. In particular, I liked Felicity Mellor and Richard Bronk. Who adopted the same perspective that underlies this blog and which I most recently articulated in writing about obliging metaphors. Was mu...
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What language looks like: Dictionary and grammar are to language what standing on one foot is to running | Metaphor Hacker
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What language looks like: Dictionary and grammar are to language what standing on one foot is to running. November 5, 2014. Listen to this Post. Why is this relevant to language? Why grammars and dictionaries seem like a good portrait of language. What does language really look like. Where does the metaphor break. This happened to me this morning when reading the Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists blog. And the post on Do people really not know what running looks like? Do it the wrong way round....
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Blending | Metaphor Hacker
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What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or action. March 4, 2014. Listen to this Post. The role of metaphor in science debate (Background). Recently, the LSE podcast an interesting panel on the subject of “Metaphors and Science”. In particular, I liked Felicity Mellor and Richard Bronk. Who adopted the same perspective that underlies this blog and which I most recently articulated in writing about obliging metaphors. Put it especially eloquently when she said:.
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Pervasiveness of Obliging Metaphors in Thought and Deed | Metaphor Hacker
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Pervasiveness of Obliging Metaphors in Thought and Deed. October 27, 2013. Listen to this Post. History is at its most obliging, the history-writer needs be. At his most wary.” ( China by John Keay. I came across this nugget of wisdom when I was re-reading the Introduction to John Keay’s history of China. And it struck me that in some way this quote could be a part of the motto of this blog. The whole thing might then read something like this:. Else For instance, electricity. Electrons are useful to ...
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Education | Metaphor Hacker
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What does it mean when words ‘really’ mean something: Dismiss the Miss. May 17, 2014. Listen to this Post. A few days ago, I tweeted a link to an article in TES. What Miss really means It’s always worthwhile re-examining ingrained inequalities http:/ t.co/GKhjc4VgUP. Dominik Lukes (@techczech) May 17, 2014. Today, I got the following response back:. 8216;really means’ talks about origins. It doesn’t mean that to me now. Elizabeth Hayton (@lizzielh) May 17, 2014. And even before, people have been trying t...
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Cliches, information and metaphors: Overcoming prejudice with metahor hacking and getting it back again | Metaphor Hacker
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Cliches, information and metaphors: Overcoming prejudice with metahor hacking and getting it back again. August 26, 2012. Listen to this Post. Professor Abhijit Banerjee (Photo credit: kalyan3). 8220;We have to use cliches. 8221; said professor Abhijit Banerjee. At the start of his LSE lecture on Poor Economics. 8220;The world is just too complicated.” He continued. “Which is why it is all the more important, we choose the right cliches.” [I'm paraphrasing here.]. Or blending.) But we don’t jus...We also...