Creative Metaphors Research Articles

东盟中文学习者画作中的中文教师角色：基于隐喻的分析

<p>With the implementation and promotion of the "Belt and Road" initiative, economic and trade cooperation and humanistic exchanges between China and ASEAN are going deeper, and Chinese language education in ASEAN has shown a booming development. As a core participant of international Chinese language education in the region, the role of Chinese language teachers is an important conceptual source of ASEAN youth's perception of China, which has a crucial impact on Chinese language learners. Based on the creation of visual metaphors, this study uses the teacher metaphor analysis framework to summarize the ASEAN Chinese teacher role metaphor categories and explore the ASEAN Chinese teacher traits from the learners' perspective. We selected 60 graphic works created by ASEAN Chinese learners as the research material, extracted 31 Chinese teacher role metaphors, and delineated six metaphorical conceptual categories. This study aims to arouse the attention of international Chinese teacher educators, social organizations, and Chinese teachers themselves to the developmental changes of Chinese teacher roles, and to provide a reference for the professional development of international Chinese teachers.</p>

Metacognition, Metaphor, and Multimodal Meaning-Making: Giving Shape to Creative Agency in Education

ABSTRACT This paper reviews my work in the specific area of teacher creative development and highlights future directions in my own research as well as for possibilities in the field of creativity in education. I emphasize the importance of understanding and promoting creative agency as a multidimensional framework for teacher and student flourishing in school and on the key role of creative metacognition and self-regulation in that developmental process. I consider recent work on creative metaphor generation in multiple modalities, including embodiment, and consider how embodied creative teaching and learning remain understudied areas of huge potential in the field of creativity in education. Last, I present the need for more critical and transformative perspectives and approaches to the study and promotion of creativity in education.

The metaphoric perception in language and literature

The research is titled (The metaphoric perception in language and literature "Sherko Bekas's "Darbandi papula" as an example), which is a literary linguistic research. In the research, several rank forms were presented, and Sherko Bekas has marked the rank of forms by using a set of forms and giving a meaningful sign of his feelings. It is an attempt to identify and present the process of presenting hidden images of a lexical form, more commonly known as metaphor in linguistics, which mark linguistic metaphors and replace morphological form. According to the semantic theory of composition, these metaphors are expressed as a major sign, so language can be considered as a common tool of language science and literature genre, especially the research has focused on the language used in poetry, in this way The creation and analysis of metaphors is involved in both semantic and pragmatic aspects, if it is not easy to understand the metaphor.

Metaphoric visual expressions in African art: an iconographical analysis of selected artworks by contemporary visual artists

Contemporary African artworks in their diversity are rich carriers of cultural meaning and values. In African art, there is an evolution in the context of visual metaphors as artists create narratives that are cognisant of global aesthetic developments. This study examines the creation and interpretation of indigenous visual metaphors by four selected contemporary Zimbabwean visual artists. An interpretive research design was used and this informed the use of in-depth interviews with purposively selected artists, studio observations, and artwork analysis to generate data. The diversity of art genres, media, and the creation of metaphoric artworks determined the sampling of artists. Findings revealed that visual metaphoric creations were inspired by community experiences and other artists. Visual metaphors were pronounced as vehicles for transmitting community messages. This study recommends extending the creation and interpretation of indigenous visual metaphors to the art education curriculum to inform culturally relevant and diverse practices.

‘Just Like Pandemic Prevention’: The Semiotic Flow That Interweaves Multimodality, Metaphor, and Narrativity

ABSTRACT This study investigates how COVID-19 advice is creatively delivered in a one-minute video produced by the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control in February 2022. It examines metaphors in verbal, visual, and multimodal modes, and illustrates how such metaphors interact with multimodal narrativity. Drawing on the insights of studies on multimodal metaphors, this paper seeks to identify which are the most pervasive metaphors or what dominant metaphor, if any, is used in the video. It finds that the metaphorical mappings between coping with the covid pandemic and handling olympic weightlifting are represented across modes and that the creative delivery of COVID-19 advice is woven from a warp of metaphors in various modes and a weft of narrativity across modes. Such metaphorical creativity is underpinned by the semiotic flow that features four interconnected configurations: moving between metaphorization, literalization, and re-metaphorization; somehow blurring the source-target boundary; expanding the range of functions that the multimodal representation can serve; and initiating a metaphorical thought from one or more contextual factors.

The practice of metaphor in conversation: an ecological integrational approach

In this study an integrational linguistic approach to metaphor is used in the context of an ecological psychology study of novel metaphor creation by adults in a structured conversation setting. This paper forms an example of the proposed complementarity of integrational linguistics (Harris, 1981) and ecological psychology (Gibson, 1979; Jones and Read, 2023) by providing a study of novel metaphor that eschews the traditional “coded carrier of message” assumptions about language, as well as the traditional “knowledge is mental representation” assumptions of representationalist cognitive psychology. Instead, novel metaphor is presented as the sine qua non of the creation of signs in the process of communication, and that creation is proposed to be founded on the perception of invariants across different naturally occurring kinds of objects and events (cf., Read & Szokolszky, 2016). The practice of metaphor is taken as a special case of perceptually guided kinematic semiology. This study describes the practice of metaphor by adults in a structured experimental situation designed to present metaphoric resemblance and to encourage the practice of metaphor with guiding verbal instructions. Such a study allows explication of the integrational method as applied to structured conversational settings. Although the conversation and context were designed to draw attention to metaphoric resemblance and to encourage verbal metaphor, not everyone practiced metaphor, showing that the practice is not determined by context. When metaphor was created, the form often mirrored the perceptual invariants available to the perceiver, i.e., motion or stationary resemblances. No one created exactly the same metaphor even in this consistent context, which emphasizes the creative aspect of metaphor as a prototype of sign creation, with its core properties of novelty, enhanced interest and noticeableness. I make the following central points: communicating by creating and integrating signs is the foundation of language; metaphor is the prototype of the creation of signs, the creation of novel metaphor in conversation is a practice that enhances communication, even in structured experimental settings; and conversation can be studied as the ongoing process of sign integration, that is, as perceptually guided kinematic semiology. The current study shows that metaphor as a practice in conversation is closely coordinated with the perception of metaphoric resemblance and the request to talk about objects and events that are alike metaphorically. Finally, it is argued that direct perception is the best approach on which to found an account of metaphor in communication.

CORRELATION BETWEEN ENERGY METAPHOR AND EMPATHY TENDENCY

Creating a metaphor for the concept of energy can contribute to the determination of the mental structuring of the concept of energy. Pre-service teachers' metaphors about the concept of energy were classified according to traditional and scientific fields. The metaphors produced by the mathematics and science teacher candidates for the concept of energy consisted of structural and abstract concepts, approximately 60% of them were the continuity of life and 40% were science categories. While pre-service mathematics teachers mainly produce metaphors for biology, pre-service science teachers produce metaphors mainly for physics. Empathic tendency scores and levels of pre-service teachers were determined. Pre-service teachers have a high level of empathic disposition and predominantly see the other person's problem and emotion as their own. There was no quantitatively significant difference between traditional metaphor types and empathic tendencies. It is understood that the pre-service teachers have high empathic tendencies, and mostly in the sen stage, the concepts related to the continuity of life are primarily used in developing metaphors related to the concept of energy, and they tend to produce structural metaphors. Metaphor and empathy will contribute to the determination of mental models and the establishment of a connection between the fields of science. Keywords: energy metaphor creation, empathic disposition and relationship identification

Metaphor as a Means of Representing First-Hand Cancer Experience in English Teen Sick-Lit

The present paper is a contribution to the study of cancer metaphors in contemporary English. It focuses on the ways cancer is conceptualized in teen sick-lit, a relatively new genre of children's literature which presents stories of severe illnesses that afflict teenagers, cancer being the most important of them. The analysis is based on four novels that employ the first-person narrative mode. It rests upon the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, utilizing such specific research instruments as the Career of Metaphor Theory (B. Bowdle and D. Gentner) and the concept of metaphorical creativity (Z. Kövecses). The novelty of the research angle is that the paper takes a differentiated approach towards cancer metaphor analysis, first identifying thematic groups relevant to cancer experience and then tracing patterns of metaphor use within each group. The four groups presented in the study are metaphors of cancer itself, cancer patients, diagnostic procedures and treatments, and physical and emotional conditions of patients. It is proved that there are metaphors that demonstrate a strong inclination to reflect only one aspect of cancer experience. Thus, the actively promoted journey metaphor appears suitable only for conceptualizing procedures and treatments, while war metaphor proves versatile. Further on, the paper analyzes instances of the war metaphor use proving that far from being obsolete, it has a considerable conceptual and communicative potential and can be developed further.

Revisiting the binding designation between source and target domains in the creation of Javanese food names metaphors

Revisiting the binding designation between source and target domains in the creation of Javanese food names metaphors

Metaphors for Wellbeing

Metaphors for Wellbeing

Creative metaphors and non-propositional effects

Abstract Over the last decade there has been growing relevance-theoretic interest in the interpretation of creative metaphors. Much of this interest has focused on non-propositional aspects of interpretation: mental image effects/emotive effects. Central to this enquiry is the following question: are non-propositional effects essential to the metaphorical interpretation process? The implications of answering this question are important, since, if the answer is positive, then the delivery of metaphorical interpretation depends, not only on utterance processing, but also on the hearer’s formation of mental images as well as emotive experience. Relevance-theoretic studies argue that mental images do not fulfill an essential role in the metaphorical interpretation process. While the supporting evidence is solid, it requires experimental substantiation. The current paper responds to this requirement, taking on board emotive effects, too, apart from mental images. Ultimately, the current work concludes that the role of non-propositional effects in metaphorical interpretation is not essential.

"A Creative Metaphor Analysis of the Use of Fairy Tales and Superheroes in Egyptian Arabic TV Commercials"

"A Creative Metaphor Analysis of the Use of Fairy Tales and Superheroes in Egyptian Arabic TV Commercials"

Perceived benefit of yoga among adults who have practiced yoga for a long time: a qualitative study

BackgroundPrevious quantitative studies have shown many of the perceived benefits of yoga practice on the mind and body. Although there are many quantitative studies in the international literature on yoga, the number of qualitative studies showing the experience of yoga practice is insufficient. An accurate demonstration of yoga participents experiences, opinions, and judgments on this subject requires a qualitative, rather than a quantitative approach.PurposeThis study was to explore the benefit perceived by adults who have practiced yoga for a long time.Design and methodThis qualitative study is based on a hermeneutic–phenomenological approach. The research sample consisted of 18 adults who volunteered to participate in the research and regularly joined yoga practice. The study data were collected through individual and focus group interviews with the participants who practise yoga and analyzed by content analysis method.ResultsWe created five themes. Themes coded by researchers: meaning of the concept of yoga (theme 1), physical, mental, and social state before starting yoga (theme 2), reasons for practising yoga (theme 3), the participants' experiences related to their physical and mental health and social relationships (theme 4), and difficulties of doing yoga (theme 5). In addition, individuals in the study reported their perceptions of the concept of "yoga" through the creation of metaphors that completed the following sentence “yoga is like ……”. These metaphors were used to give insight into the participants deep feelings about yoga.ConclusionsBoth in their individual and focus group interviews, almost all of the participants described that doing yoga has positive benefits on the mind and body. The positive experiences of the participants in the study included decrease in pain and flexibility, increase in sleep quality, development of positive personality traits, increase in self-esteem, and coping with anxiety and stress more effectively. Because the study was qualitative and long-term, it was able to evaluate the beliefs, attitudes and behaviors of individuals in a realistic, systematic, and detailed manner.

The Metaphoric Perception in Language and Literature Sherko Bekas «Darbandi Papula» As an Example

The research is titled (The metaphoric perception in Language and Literature «Sherko Bekas›s «Darbandi papula» is an example), which is a literary linguistic research. In the research, several rank forms were presented, and Sherko Bekas marked the rank of forms by using a set of forms and giving a meaningful sign of his feelings. It is an attempt to identify and present the process of presenting hidden images of a lexical form, more commonly known as metaphor in linguistics, which mark linguistic metaphors and replace morphological form. According to the semantic theory of composition, these metaphors are expressed as a major sign, so language can be considered a common tool of language science and literature genre, especially the research has focused on the language used in poetry, this way The creation and analysis of metaphors are involved in both .semantic and pragmatic aspects if it is not easy to understand the metaphor

TOPIC-TRIGGERED METAPHORS IN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

The paper deals with metonymy based metaphors in sports newspaper headlines. These are mainly novel, unconventional metaphors, in which the choice of a metaphorical source domain is triggered by some aspects of the target domain. We deal with such metaphors where the NICKNAME of a sports club (animal- or bird-related) metonymically stands for the SPORTS CLUB, when the salient attributes of animals and birds are mapped onto the players. We show how these creative metaphors for VICTORY (eating the opponent, taming the opponent, flying, etc.) and DEFEAT (losing the wings, falling, etc.) are based on some conventional conceptual metaphors.

Translator learners' strategies in local and textual metaphors

IntroductionMetaphor is more than understanding and expressing an abstract concept in terms of a concrete one. Pre-linguistically, it is the conceptual creativity that resides in the entities yet to be expressed. Linguistically, it is the invention that expands the boundaries of words. Contextually, it is the preservation or generation of polysemy that brings about a confrontation of meanings. As such, metaphor is also a universal creative mechanism of semantic innovation and an artful discourse feature. Both Metaphor and Translation Studies, however, have mostly addressed conventional metaphors and professional translators, thereby neglecting students' behaviors when translating creative metaphors, especially at discourse level.Methods/AimThe main objective of this task-based descriptive study is therefore to investigate to what extent and how the translation strategies spontaneously adopted by 73 translator students are influenced by local, creative metaphors and by their textual patterning. The analysis of the data showed that while isolated, non-conflictual metaphors did not pose any challenges, the diverse patterns of conflictual ones hampered the translation outcome. At the micro-level, literal and explicitation strategies result in neutral, less connotative renditions. When omission prevails in correlation to metaphor clusters, the target texts appear more condensed, overtly informative, and lack the metaphorical diversity and cohesion of the source ones. As a result, the appealing linguistic jocularity deriving from exploiting metaphors and puns is toned down.DiscussionSince students tend to avoid creative solutions, these findings will serve as a preliminary discussion on how students' strategic and textual competence can benefit from cognitive-informed, conflict-based inferencing skills by exploiting the metalinguistic nature of creative metaphors and puns.

Ноцицепция и ее лингвокреативный потенциал в художественно-эстетической репрезентации

One of the perspectives in the development of linguistics is investigating the role that the sensory-perceptual system plays in the linguocreative activity of an individual. The present paper analyzes specificity of verbal conceptualization of nociception, or pain, in the artistic experimental discourse. The novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" (2005) by the contemporary American writer J.S. Foer has been selected as the research material. The plot of this book is based on the facts of several catastrophes of world significance – the terrorist attack in New York on September 11, 2001, the Second World War, and the nuclear bombing in Japan. Among its main themes are the tragic fates of people who are victims of these catastrophes and the physical and psychological pain they suffered. In this work, we apply the method of discursive-parametric analysis of linguistic creativity. The use of this method results in establishing linguistic innovations (perceptual collocations, phraseological modifications, creative metaphors, syntactic anomalies, etc.) that emerge in the artistic experimental discourse. According to the research findings, both the formation and functioning of these linguistic innovations depend on such macroparameters as "the time of publication", "the subtype of discourse", "the subject/plot", and "main characters". Of special interest are also multimodal neologisms, which are created as an integration of language signs with visual-graphic means in the novel under consideration.

Conative, Personality-based, Cognitive and Competence Approaches in the Semantic Sphere of the Individual’s Creativity

the aim of our article is to show conative, personality­based, cognitive and competence approaches in the semantic sphere of the individual’s creativity, to determine their characteristics, valuable and unique qualities.methods of the research. The following theoretical methods of the research were used to solve the tasks formulated in the article: the categorical method, structural and functional methods, the methods of the analysis, systematization, modeling, generalization. the results of the research. We think that leading to the development of the person’s creative imagination is metaphorical imagination (personal ap-proach). The latter is able to create new images of objects, ideas, meanings and emotional­sensual experiences, appealing to the imagination of the respondent who perceives. Metaphorical imagination is manifested as a person’s ability to independent creative metaphors, creatively interpret complex metaphors, cre-atively and originally apply existing metaphorical expressions depending on the context of a certain situation. Realizing the connection between the sensual and the rational, the construction of a creative metaphorical image activates the subject’s sensory­perceptual and emotional imagination on a creative level, thereby contributing to a new and deeper understanding of their essence.conclusions. We showed that psychological researches in a great degree emphasized such creative personality traits as productive ones, creative think-ing, the implementation of creative characteristics, transformative human acti­vity, the need for self­affirmation, material well­being, the transformation of the surrounding natural and social world, the implementation of doping strategies in the context of life achievements of the individual (a conative approach); in-tellectual activity, psychological flexibility, creative motivation, multivariate vi-sion of the surrounding world, originality, divergence; personal achievements (integrative approach); mental structures, mental representations, mental ex-perience, intellectual abilities – speed, originality, sensitivity, metaphoricality, formulation and original solution of a problem, actualization of the concept of a creative act (a cognitive approach); motivation to carry out creative activities, motivation to achieve success, situational self­actualization (a motivational ap-proach); a high level of professionalism, professional and creative semantics, creative explication of the situation, professional and creative social perception, creative aspects of communication (competence approach)

Metaphorical Creativity in Discourse

On the “standard” view of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980; Kövecses, 2002), metaphorical creativity arises from the cognitive processes of extending, elaboration, questioning, and combining conceptual content in the source domain (Lakoff and Turner, 1989). I will propose that such cases constitute only a part of metaphorical creativity. An equally important and common set of cases is comprised by what I call “context-induced” metaphors. I will discuss five types of these: metaphors induced by 1) the immediate linguistic context itself, 2) what we know about the major entities participating in the discourse, 3) the physical setting, 4) the social setting, and 5) the immediate cultural context. Such metaphors have not been systematically investigated so far, though they seem to form a large part of our metaphorical creativity.

A Mythic Reading of the Materialist Epiphany in Femi Osofisan’s Another Raft

This paper is a mythic reading of Another Raft written and published in 1988 by the Nigerian playwright, Femi Osofisan. The paper gives a materialist interpretation of the play and its mythic resources to illustrate Osofisan’s drama as a dispassionate critique of society. It observes that the playwright’s deployment of mythology in the play, and the play’s intertextual connection to an earlier one, The Raft (published 1964), by J. P. Clark, is revelatory. One problem any reader familiar with the two plays may find with understanding Osofisan’s version is the prominent use of supernatural beings as characters mingling with humans, which is nonexistent in the older play. This paper’s interpretation, therefore, reveals and affirms that the supernatural figures in the play are only creative metaphors deployed by the playwright to comment on the mundane social reality of the world outside the text. It also reveals that Osofisan’s response in Another Raft to Clark’s The Raft is to differ ideologically from the older play on the root causes of the decadence and sterility in Nigeria’s social and political space. Osofisan’s response demystifies the seemingly elusive solution to the cankerworms destroying the fabric of the nation. The paper concludes that Osofisan’s recourse to mythic and traditional elements is very helpful to his creative imagination and his effort to provide a panacea, through the theatre, to the obstacles impeding economic and political progress in postcolonial Nigerian society.