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| | Metaphor - Factbites |
 | | The result is that metaphor (that is, cross-domain mapping) is absolutely central to ordinary natural language semantics, and that the study of literary metaphor is an extension of the study of everyday metaphor. | | | Metaphor is one of the poet's chief means of living up to the ideal that "a poem does not talk about ideas; it enacts them" John Ciardi). | | | metaphor [Gr.,=transfer], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one class of things is referred to as if it belonged to another class. |
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http://www.factbites.com/topics/Metaphor
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| | Conceptual metaphor - definition of Conceptual metaphor in Encyclopedia |
| | This idea and detailed examination of the underlying processes was first explored in detail by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors we live by | | | Conceptual metaphor - definition of Conceptual metaphor in Encyclopedia | | | Source domain: the conceptual domain from which we draw metaphorical expressions. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Conceptual_metaphor
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| | Metaphor |
| | The more common meaning of metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to paint one concept with the attributes normally associated with another. | | | This metaphor likens a nation to a ship. | | | Many consider metaphor to be at the heart of poetry (or even to define in part what it means to be human): the figure of speech that links dissimilar objects or concepts, establishing a non-deductive relationship. |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Metaphor.html
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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. | | | The desktop metaphor is a set of unifying concepts currently used in a number of GUI-based operating systems. | | | The desktop metaphor itself has been extended and stretched with various implementations, since access to features and usability of the computer are usually more important than maintaining the "purity" of the metaphor. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/d/desktop-metaphor.html
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Topic: Metaphor