Metaphorical Sense Research Articles

A Beast to Be Slain: The Tiger and the Unquenched Desire of Man

Abstract: Ever since the British colonists blessed tiger hunting as the cardinal "royal" sport of the Haut monde , a surge of interest took place among the leisure class to travel to the British Raj in order to re-practice their ancestral fox hunting on foreign hunting grounds—this time with a more fearsome quarry. Since tigers were considered exotic and fierce creatures, overpowering these beasts secured a certain cachet for the victor, signifying his virility and manliness. As a result, the encounter between man and the tiger—both in the metaphoric and non-metaphoric sense—provided a literary trope for the twentieth-century writers who associated the animal with the erotic hunger of the male protagonists. By studying the traditional beliefs surrounding these mystical creatures, the present article reads some of the notable literary fictions of the twentieth century that use the tiger as a central animal motif— The Beast in the Jungle (1903), Death in Venice (1912), and The Remains of the Day (1989)—in light of each other.

Ecocritical review of the nature essays of university students: a translation and metaphor study

The nature of man to understand his ecology is relative linguistically and psychologically. When describing the ecology, a man conveys message using metaphors. This study reviews the essays of students about nature metaphors. The essays were from 75 students. The collected metaphors were translated into English from Filipino. Descriptive method was used. In the study, the majority of the students have the sense of landscape metaphor. The nature is personified as general metaphor. It is like a man who have these senses. There seems to have battle for struggles about exploitation, modification, and destroying. On the other hand, their works also revealed the appreciation of the beauty of nature, its aestheticism. Based on this, theories used in the translation and metaphor study have construed a more sophisticated update on the language studies. Commonalities grouping of metaphors could be different from contexts. It gives more space for analysis and recalibrate the study into wider discussions. Indeed, the use of metaphor in the daily communication helps man to be certain and the gravity of meanings of expressions used. Man is naturally metaphorical which reveal their ability to connect things, concretize abstract forms of meaning, and produce new concepts of semantic terms.

Has The English NHS Shattered, Metaphorically and Physically? Is it a reflection of a Global Healthcare Crisis?

The English National Health Service (NHS) is one of the largest employers in the world with a global reputation of being at the forefront of medical research and high standards of treatment. Despite this, it is currently in a state of crisis with nurses going on strike for the first time in its history, paramedics also striking, and junior doctors experiencing burnout like never before. Working as a tutor, lecturer, and mentor on healthcare leadership programs in the UK, the author is hearing first-hand how exhausted so many of the English NHS workforce are and they have had enough of not being heard by the leaders of the organization. This critical review explores some of the serious considerations as to why this world-renowned health service is shattered – both in the metaphorical sense, but also physically.

Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight by Shannon Gibney (review)

Reviewed by: Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight by Shannon Gibney Kate Quealy-Gainer, Editor Gibney, Shannon Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight; illus. by Charly Palmer. University of Minnesota Press, 2023 [48p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781517909659 $17.95 E-book ed. ISBN 9781452968957 $17.95 Reviewed from digital galleys R 4-7 yrs The dinner table has become a battleground in Sam's house, with Mom prepping and serving standard American food, like pizza, and his aunt prepping and serving traditional Liberian food, like torbogee soup, and both women expecting him to choose their individual dish. Picking one meal over another, however, always leaves Sam feeling guilty, and while he tries to eat both dishes, his tummy "had only so much space." Things get so bad that one night Sam opts out of dinner altogether, but that obviously can't be a permanent solution; will he be able to negotiate a truce between the two sides of his family and bring peace to mealtime? In both the literal and metaphorical sense, Sam is being asked to choose between an American and Liberian identity, "stuck in-between'' with his younger sister when he wants to feel connected with all his loved ones; the joy of sitting down together to a delicious meal has been unfairly stripped away as he's used as a proxy for an adult argument. Palmer's illustrations artfully convey the stalemate, placing Mom and Auntie on opposite pages with a long table yawning between them. Painterly swoops, smudgy textures, and bold, rich colors lend the art a needed buoyancy, and the dishes offered by both parties look delectable. Any kid forced to take sides in an adult argument will recognize Sam's feelings of helplessness and guilt, and they'll be relieved when his efforts at peacemaking result in a communal victory. Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

The Result of the Declaration in the sense of Metaphor For Abd al-Rahman ibn Mustafa al-Aidarous (d. 1192 AH): An Investigation and Reference

The nature of research and investigation required that the researcher presents to the reader something about the author’s life and writings in a preface that preceded the verified text. So the researcher had dealt with the text as is well-known among the investigators, and had explained this in a special paragraph in (The Investigation Method).

White working-class youth, rural disadvantage, sense of belonging and bonded social capital

The paper critically reflects on data derived from prolonged periods of ethnographic study in an economically disadvantaged white workingclass rural community in the North East of England. A central aim the study was to understand the culture of the village and to capture and penetrate the social relationships and meanings within that culture as understood by its inhabitants and their relationship with the local school (see Bagley and Hillyard, 2013, 2015, 2019; Hillyard and Bagley, 2013, 2015). The research employed participant observation inside the village and included semi-structured interviews with residents individually and collectively in a host of formal and informal settings. For the purposes of this paper, the research draws on those interviews conducted with white working-class young people aged 16-21 years old (N= 25), born in the village who were in neither education, employment nor training. The findings suggest the experiences of rural disadvantage for these young people results in them holding a strong relational metaphorical sense of belonging (Cuervo and Wyn, 2014) that draws on bonded social capital (Putnam, 1995) to help them survive.

Visibility in Dilemma: Institutional Work in the Regulatory Practices of Protestant Churches in Wenzhou, China

Although scholars have explored the regulatory governance of Christianity at the local level, less attention has been paid to the ambiguity, tension, and inconsistency of the religious policies imposed by the central government and its challenges to local bureaucrats’ regulatory practices. Offering insight into the theory of institutional work, this article intends to address this gap, revealing how local bureaucrats in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, employ contextual solutions (e.g., discursive work, selective implementation, and operational work) to repair the top-down policy problems they encounter. In the post-Mao era, the visibility of local Protestant organisations, in a physical and metaphorical sense, has been entangled with contradictions in religious regulations and the central-local discrepancy.

Auditory Steering in Haptic Cinema

The expressive force of sound culture plays a vital role in cinematic narrative and representation, and haptic cinema with unique aesthetic features has particular superiority in terms of sound expression. Currently, an increasing number of art films showcase innovative explorations of haptic auditory, bringing about fantastic voyages of perception. The major purpose of this essay is to elaborate on the audio practice and aural turn in haptic cinema, in order to comprehend the significance of sound culture. The sub-objective of the case study is to compare the different audio-visiogenic effects and manifold audio-visual concomitance based on the textual analysis of Drive My Car, Memoria, and blind theme films. I intend to apply the soundscape and audio-vision theories and investigate the haptic cinema pathway. At this stage in this research, the aesthetic qualities and cultural connotations of haptic auditory will be examined through three dimensions: perception, narrative, and metaphor. According to the certain functions of sound, the framework is divided into the following main parts. First, I will start with the subjectivity and materiality of sound to illustrate how films achieve haptic auditory expression; Next, I will demonstrate the way sounds are exerted as narrative motives in these cases, focusing on the issue of the sound source; Finally, I will analyse sound in the metaphoric sense, showing the two sample movies’ similar routes from rupture to recovery.

Addis Ababa’s sefer, iddir, and gebbi

This research is motivated by the scholarly calls for new concepts and analytic tools for documenting, analysing, and theorizing complex urban territories such as those of cities in Africa. With implicit comparative intent, it takes the case of Addis Ababa city and its old and typifying places—the sefer, to develop and test a new architectural transdisciplinary research methodology referred to as the trinocular. By way of this methodology, it unearths and introduces sefer, iddir, and gebbi of Addis Ababa as not only socio-spatial phenomena but concepts and vocabulary for a located and nuanced reading of the city itself. Sefer are introduced as flexible boundary conditions that are primarily cognized by their dwellers—results of indigenous and autochthonous foundation and continued processes of self-actualization by communities that construct them. Iddir is unearthed as a form of social capital embedded in sefer that appears in the structures of relations among residents. And the gebbi as an urban spatial typology that constitutes the sefer’s morphology—the last frontier of communality just prior domestic spaces which, in many cases, can be a single multi-functional room. These concepts and vocabulary, it is argued, in both practical and metaphoric sense, should be the starting point of new urban imaginaries for Addis Ababa. Urban planning and housing projections thus, should draw inspiration from these notions, elements, and phenomena. Furthermore, lessons learnt from the trinocular and the findings are presented as new avenues for architectural research in similar, less-known, and complex urban conditions as the sefer of Addis Ababa.

The Invisible Enemy: From Metaphor to Concept

The problem, the solution of which this article is devoted to, is related to the lack of special studies of the concept of “invisible enemy” in political philosophy. Existing theoretical works do not pay enough attention to this concept. Its metaphorical use fails to make explicit all of its potential and importance for political philosophy. As “invisible enemies” only in the metaphorical sense of this term can be regarded objects that have a non-anthropogenic nature (viruses, bacteria, sources of disease), as well as extraneous elements of the political body that have destructive potential. The analysis carried out revealed two semantic areas of using the concept of “invisible enemies”, relevant to political philosophy, and namely physical and symbolic invisibility. The physical invisibility, which is regarded in the works by Сarl von Clausewitz, Сarl Schmitt, Zygmunt Bauman, Grégoire Chamayou and others, belongs to enemies on the battlefield or to remote warfare. Russian philosophers look at this concept from an ethical perspective (Vladimir Solovyov, Lev Karsavin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Fyodor Stepun). The author of the article substantiates the thesis about the situational and relative nature of the phenomenon of the invisible enemy, associated with reaching the limit of perceptual indistinguishability. The physical invisibility of the enemy is caused by the appropriation of new war spaces in which vertical dimensions are established. Arguing with the ideas of Carl Schmitt, the author uses this concept not only in relation to the irregular fighters (partisans), but also in relation to modern combatants. The ways of acquisition of the symbolic invisibility are revealed in the works of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt. It is based on the transfer of the war actor to a different semantic field, in which it is depoliticized and re-symbolized as a civilian object.

STAGES OF KARTING FORMATION AS ONE OF THE POPULAR AUTOSPORT

Autosport appeared at the end of the 19th century and over time conquered the entire world by giving interested persons a race in the literal and metaphorical sense to develop and transform technical ideas that are based on wheels. Autosport (in English "autosport"), motor sports, also in English "motorsport" — is a category of technical types of sports in which participants compete with each other behind the wheel of cars (prototype, car, truck, SUV, and so on). As of today, there are many different subtypes of motorsport, each of which has its own rules and regulations. Competitions can be for track speed, efficiency, reliability, maneuverability, and so on. Kart racing - a small car consisting of a frame, a motorcycle engine and a seat. Karts cost less than any racing car and are relatively safe. Karting is therefore the ideal sport for beginners and car enthusiasts.

What is digital transformation? Investigating the metaphorical meaning of digital transformation and why it matters

PurposeThis study used a visual research approach to investigate how small business (SB) entrepreneurs in Nigeria, a low-income country, perceive digital transformation (DT). The study aims to improve and broaden the understanding of DT by uncovering its metaphors. Making metaphorical sense of DT will increase its knowledge among populations who are unfamiliar with digital technology concepts, as well as communicating and collaborating with them to develop future research and strategies on the subject of DT. This study is significant because scholars have paid little attention to social imaginations of DT depicted through metaphors, more so when considered from a worldview of SBs in low-income countries.Design/methodology/approachThe uniqueness of the research objective motivated the use of social theory to frame the research approach, and picture-elicitation techniques to drive data collection through in-depth interviews with 17 SB entrepreneurs and business owners in Nigeria. Data were analyzed using a content analysis procedure known as metaphor analysis.FindingsThe study revealed three metaphors of DT: a drama, a war and a pregnant elephant. A triangulation of the metaphors with English lexicon, extant literature and interview excerpts supported the war and drama perceptions of DT but opposed “DT as a pregnant elephant.”Practical implicationsIt argued that the social perception of DT can improve the sustainable, purposeful and successful execution of DT strategies for SB DT. As a result, this study pushes the boundaries of DT, particularly for SB entrepreneurs in low-income countries.Social implicationsMetaphors pervade our daily lives, not only in our language and communications, but also in how we think and act; as such, they can play an important role in understanding and implementing DT, a concept that has received little attention in the SB settings.Originality/valueThis is one of the first empirical studies to figuratively explain DT and its implications for literature and practice in SB entrepreneurship and information systems domains.

Construction of Identity/World and ‘Symbolic Death’: A Lacanian Approach to William Golding’s Pincher Martin

Abstract William Golding’s Pincher Martin is about the problem of maintaining one’s identity in the face of death/non-existence. To give himself an illusion of being alive, Martin, who died at the beginning of the novel, creates a fictitious world of a rock, to which he clings for metaphysical survival. The rock where his survival is staged is, in a metaphorical sense, Lacanian symbolic order which is created to give Martin a sense of identity, while protecting him against Lacanian real, his non-existence. Martin, however, would not admit the fictionality of his world which also implies the fictitiousness of his own identity. At the end of the novel, the black lightening, Lacanian real as “unquestionable nothingness” (Golding 1956/2013: 95), reveals the fictionality of Martin’s symbolic order, and erases the rock as well as Martin himself whose identity is constructed on his fictional world, as if they were words written on the paper. This is Martin’s second death as the Žižekian ‘symbolic death’ which exposes the fictionality of the symbolic order and human identity.

Klein, Ula Lukszo. Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Klein, Ula Lukszo. <i>Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature</i>

The Big Short's Incoherence, Documentary Aesthetics, and Use of Direct Address

<i>The Big Short</i>'s Incoherence, Documentary Aesthetics, and Use of Direct Address

Fluid Horizons

Abstract This article revisits Sinophone literature from the archipelagic region of the western Pacific to understand how thinking with and through the ocean shapes patterns of place-making and identity formation. Scrutinizing stories by Syaman Rapongan and Ng Kim Chew, the article shows how the ocean figures on several distinct registers: as the locale where these works unfold, as the object toward which their characters' yearnings and reflections are directed, and as a condition of being. Alternatively, the ocean can be read in the metaphorical and allegorical sense, as a device that allows their authors to critique (neo)colonial violence, the irruption of modernity, and especially the rigors of land-based and supposedly stable epistemologies. Against these, Rapongan and Ng posit what I call oceanic epistemologies, that is, systems and methods of knowledge drawn from and intertwined with the ocean as a condition of being on a terraqueous globe. The oceanic epistemologies in Sinophone literatures from littoral East and Southeast Asia allow us to rethink fundamental questions of being, identity, and history. They build upon, but methodologically move beyond, the critical apparatus offered by Sinophone literature.

Metaphor and the Portrayal of the Cause(s) of Sin and Evil in the Gospel of Matthew by Judith V. Stackr

Reviewed by: Metaphor and the Portrayal of the Cause(s) of Sin and Evil in the Gospel of Matthew by Judith V. Stackr J. R. C. Cousland judith v. stack, Metaphor and the Portrayal of the Cause(s) of Sin and Evil in the Gospel of Matthew (BIS 182; Leiden: Brill, 2020). Pp. x + 219. €105/ $126. Matthew's Gospel offers a rich harvest for those wishing to glean insights into how Jesus and the Gospel make use of metaphor, and Judith Stack's monograph on metaphors for sin and evil in Matthew offers a fruitful rumination on that topic. Her volume is particularly welcome because, despite the prominent role that metaphor assumes in the Gospel of Matthew, it has still not received the scholarly attention that it merits. Moreover, even though the book's ostensible focus is on metaphors for sin, S. engages with a surprising number of the features that characterize Jesus's (and Matthew's) distinctive voice. The volume opens with an introductory chapter devoted to defining metaphor, which is then followed by a selective but substantial assessment of how sin and evil are characterized in various Second Temple texts, including 1 Enoch, Jubilees, 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, Sirach, and selected passages from Qumran. She concludes that these writings cumulatively offer "a wide variety of perspectives and metaphors for understanding and portraying the source or sources of sin in humans" (p. 103). The second half of the book addresses the metaphors associated with sin and evil in Matthew. S. begins with a brief review of the earlier monographs by Benno Przybylski (Righteousness in Matthew and His World of Thought [SNTSMS 41; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980]) and Roger Mohrlang (Matthew and Paul: A Comparison of Ethical Perspectives [SNTSMS 48; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980]), [End Page 511] before moving to an exegesis of the terminology associated with sin (the hamart- root, planaō, skandalizō, and skandalon). S. determines that hamartia and hamartanō adhere to the conventional usage of the LXX and further notes that hamartia's metaphorical sense of "missing the mark" is absent here: instead of being unintentional, the word(s) connote a deliberate act. By contrast, planaō and skandalizō tend to signify instances where sin is not deliberate or where the source of sin lies outside the sinner. Somewhat controversially, S. affirms that, when individuals reject Jesus, it is Jesus who is the cause of their stumbling. Stack then embarks on an examination of the various metaphors relating to the causes of sin. They involve (1) body parts (e.g., "If your right hand causes you to sin …" [5:30]); (2) metaphors of illness ("those who are well have no need of a physician" [9:12]); and (3) the heart ("adultery … in his heart" [5:28]). These three groups of metaphors describe increasing levels of sin at work within individuals—moving from a sinful body part working against the whole, to a morbid state of sin in the body, to a sinful heart, connoting the person as a whole, especially in relation to their decision-making faculties. The following chapter considers genetic and familial metaphors for sin, which include metaphors of (1) trees and fruit ("every sound tree bears good fruit" [7:17]); (2) animals ("brood of vipers" [12:34]); and (3) family ("an evil and adulterous generation" [12:39; 16:4]). S. sees these various metaphors as expressive of the ontological dualism of good and evil—a feature that is prominent also in Second Temple literature. The final chapter deals with satanic activity, which provides the Gospel's most explicit etiology for sin in the interpretation of the parable of the wheat and the tares. Based on these assessments, S. concludes that sin and evil in Matthew are expressed in terms of metaphor. The wide-ranging metaphors exhibit "a diversity that spans a spectrum from those that indicate essentially external causes to those that … [are] inherent to who the person is" (p. 201). This diversity, moreover, is consistent with the wealth of images to be found in the Second Temple literature examined in the first half of the book. For those interested in metaphor, S.'s initial chapter provides a helpful treatment of the question...

‘Who in This World Knows Anything of Any Other Heart?’: Ford Madox Ford and the New Cardiology

The Good Soldier (1915) is a novel famously preoccupied by disorders of the heart, whether real, invented, or misdiagnosed. This essay examines Ford Madox Ford's magnum opus in light of his own experiences of medical treatment (including in the spa town of Nauheim where the novel is set), showing just how directly it reflects contemporary innovations in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. These innovations were a result of the advent of ‘the new cardiology,’ a movement that sought to disaggregate cardiac and psychiatric diagnoses, bringing to an end a period in which doctors might consider emotions and desires ‘matters of the heart’ in a more than metaphorical sense. The essay aims, firstly, to illustrate how The Good Soldier captures a crucial moment in heart medicine, and secondly, to model an interdisciplinary approach to representations of affect and the body in modernist fiction that emphasises their enmeshment with early twentieth century medical culture.

A SCHOLASTIC REVIEW OF THE INJUNCTIONS RELATING TO COVERING ONESELF IN LIGHT OF SURAH AHZAB

Islamic teachings explained us everything related to our lives in the light of Quran and Sunnah. Some of them are specified for Muslim women like feeding baby, abortion, Iddah and veiling etc. Veil is the most important part for Muslim women in their lives. It protects them from bad eyes and stays them away from sins. There are many terms used for veiling like Hijab, Jilbab that are identical to the meaning of veil.Hijab is a test for the Muslim woman. It is clear from the Quran and the Hadiths that hijab is a religious obligation, which a woman has to undertake. There is no scholarly difference on this point and the Muslim Ummah has applied it for over 14 centuries. When a Muslim woman wears hijab, she is obeying and submitting to Allah. A woman who wears hijab liberates herself from the vain and selfish desire to show off her beauty and to compete with other women around her. In the Quran, the term hijab refers to a partition or curtain in the literal or metaphorical sense. The verse where it is used literally is commonly understood to refer to the curtain separating visitors to Muhammads(ï·º) house from his wives lodgings. This leads Muslim women that hijab is mandatory and to wear hijab is applied to every Muslim woman as many quranic verses denote on it. Muslim woman should cover her all body with curtain when she goes outside of the house as well as cover her face from unknown person whereas it is allowed to her to show her face, hands and legs to her relatives.In this article, the researcher conducted the research in the term of Islamic teachings of veiling and hijab for Muslim women in the light of Surah Ahzab and analyzed six verses of the concerned surah that described veiling. The researcher explained everything with some hadiths and some books and references. This article especially helps those women who are totally confused about face and body hijab as well as those who dont accept hijab as the sharia verdict of Allah and His prophet ï·º. This also helps those students who are newly doing research on hijab and veil. In fact, this article is very informative at all.

Merleau-Ponty’s Embodied Ontology and Literature: Gesture, Metaphor, Flesh, and Sensible Ideas

This essay traces out the importance of the poetic and creative use of language to Merleau-Ponty’s ontology. Why Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment inevitably had to turn towards a poetic use of language and to see the overlap between literature and philosophy in articulating an ontology is examined. The tie between a deeper sense of metaphor and the structure of the flesh of the world is explored. The attempt to articulate the latent background of perception leads to the essential role of what will be called the “physiognomic imagination”, which is a different use of imagination than “make-believe” and is key to the unfolding of the depths of perceptual sense. Understanding the efficacy of the literary use of language to the manifestation of further sense also requires an understanding of the temporality of the institution and the ongoing becoming of the real in Merleau-Ponty’s ontology. This essay argues that Merleau-Ponty’s turn to poetic language was both a source of his insights for ontology and the way that he came to express his own philosophy as a necessary outcome of fidelity to the phenomenology of perception. Given the parallel structure of the flesh of the world and metaphor, the dialogical nature of the perceptual encounter with the “voice of silence”, and the increasing importance of physiognomic imaginations, the temporality of institution and “sensible ideas” to his indirect ontology, the literary and poetic use of language had to assume a central role in the articulation of the flesh ontology as well as to the further manifestation of sense. This assertion is meant to rectify the reading and commentaries that fail to see this necessity and instead interpret Merleau-Ponty’s increasing use of poetic language as merely a residue of his evolving writing style and not as the necessary outcome of his ontological insights. This essay is also meant to address phenomenologists who fail to turn to literature and the poetic expression of embodied ontology as failing to carry forth Merleau-Ponty’s revisioning of philosophy and centrality of perception and embodiment.