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Figurative language and multicultural education: metaphors of language acquisition and retention
2015
Linguistics has long recognised that figurative language in the form of metaphorical expressions structures and communicates attitudes towards the ideas and concepts being expressed and that multilingual students also employ linguistic figures frequently in their writing. In this study, multilingual students use figurative language to both critique and describe experiences related to language acquisition and retention. Faced with the task of using three or more languages, the L3 English language students studied often turn to metaphor to describe the relationships between their languages and the different contexts in which they use the linguistic resources available to them. The following a…
Four Potential Meanings of Double Negation
2016
The figurative use of double negations (not uninteresting, not unhappy) has been described by linguists and rhetoricians with regards to the rhetorical figure litotes. Both mitigation and strengthening have been proposed as aims of litotes (Horn, 1989; Krifka, 2007; van der Wouden, 1996). An analysis of the construction nicht un-adjective (not un-adj.) on the basis of German corpora leads to a coherent system of pragmatic functions for this sort of double negations. The construction can function as denial, potential presumption denial, mitigation or understatement. Nevertheless, litotes exemplifies the “indeterminate nature of figurative meaning” as suggested by Colston/Gibbs (2012: 259) in…
Metaphors in the mirror: The influence of teaching metaphors in a medical education programme
2016
Medical students often face problems in using and understanding metaphors when communicating with a patient or reading a scientific paper. These figures of speech constitute an interpretative problem and students need key strategies to facilitate metaphor comprehension and disambiguation of meaning. This article examines how medical students' strategies of metaphor comprehension could be improved by specific teaching on metaphors using a Cognitive Linguistics approach. Medical students' ability to comprehend mirror neuron metaphors was assessed comparing the performance of students who did not receive any instruction about metaphoric extension strategies after a lesson on mirror neurons wit…
4-5 gadus vecu bērnu priekšstatu par ģeometriskām figūrām veidošanās pirmsskolas izglītības iestādē
2020
Darba nosaukums: 4–5 gadus vecu bērnu vecu bērnu priekšstatu par ģeometriskām figūrām veidošanās pirmsskolas izglītības iestādē. Autore– Natālija Švidjuka Darba apjoms- 40 lpp, 5 nodaļas, 4pielikumi, izmantoti 27 literatūras avoti. Pētījuma mērķis: izpētīt 4–5gadus vecu bērnu priekšstatu par ģeometriskām figūrām veidošanos pirmsskolas izglītības iestādē. Pirmajā nodaļā teorētiski analizēta priekšstatu par ģeometriskām figūrām, veidošanās pirmsskolā. Otrajā nodaļā veikta teorētiskā analīze vēsturiskā, mūsdienu skatījumā. Trešajā nodaļā aprakstīts 4 – 5 gadus vecu bērnu vecuma posma raksturojums. Ceturtajā nodaļā analizēta bērnu priekšstatu par ģeometriskām figūrām veidošanās sekmēšanas pedag…
Family home rights in divorce
2021
El ensayo ofrece un ?mapa? de los intereses en conflicto en la asignación de la vivienda familiar después de la separación o el divorcio y sus reglas de gobierno. La revisión crítica de la doctrina judicial, que considera la preservación del ?hábitat? doméstico como criterio exclusivo, lleva al autor a redefinir el fundamento axiológico de la legislación vigente, para proponer una interpretación diferente capaz de optimizar la promoción del interés superior del menor, sin afectar los intereses en competencia de una manera irracional y desproporcionada.
Genesi geometrica delle volte centriche
1996
Un'analisi completa degli organismi voltati comporta lo studio delle molteplici componenti necessarie alla loro definizione: configurazione geometrica, sistema costruttivo, area storico-geografica di appartenenza, interpretazioni Stilistiche. L’obiettivo di questo studio è indirizzato all' analisi delle volte continue su pianta centrica definibili attraverso le leggi della geometria euclidea. L’indagine si pone all'interno dei confini relativi alla loro configurazione geometrica e il criterio adottato, svincolato da classificazioni di carattere tipologico o stilistico, propone l'identificazione di famiglie geometriche in base alla figura del poligono di base dell'impianto. Si può identifica…
Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls. 2010, Nr. 1 (74)
2010
Valsts Kultūrkapitāla fonds
Forest Road Planning, Construction and Maintenance to Improve Forest Fire Fighting: a Review
2019
Forest roads play a key-role in fire fighting activities. In fact, all ground-based activities are strictly related to the presence of forest roads as access to fire edge. In spite of this important role, forest roads are often planned and built without considering their use in fire fighting, and this also occurs in literature, where few studies are dedicated to the importance of forest roads in fire fighting. A well-developed and well-maintained forest road network is the answer to different needs in fire management. The objective of this review is to clarify basic principles for obtaining efficient road network also for fire fighting, collecting, defining and resuming the main roles, the …
Adozione in casi particolari e rapporti di parentela tra adottato e famiglia dell'adottante secondo la Corte costituzionale
2022
Il contributo considera le ricadute della sentenza n. 79/2022 della Corte costituzionale sulle due figure dell'adozione piena e dell'adozione in casi particolari dei minori di età con particolare riferimento alla posizione del bambino adottato in casi particolari e dei legami con la famiglia di origine e con quella del/gli adottante/i. Evidenziate talune aporie del ragionamento della Consulta, riflette criticamente sulla bontà del ricorso all'adozione in casi particolari per dare copertura giuridica al legame tra il genitore d'intenzione non biologico e il nato da gestazione per altri, specie in caso di omogenitorialità, in vista del perseguimento del migliore interesse del minore.
How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm
2014
The involvement of the sensorimotor system in language understanding has been widely demonstrated. However, the role of context in these studies has only recently started to be addressed. Though words are bearers of a semantic potential, meaning is the product of a pragmatic process. It needs to be situated in a context to be disambiguated. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that embodied simulation occurring during linguistic processing is contextually modulated to the extent that the same sentence, depending on the context of utterance, leads to the activation of different effector-specific brain motor areas. In order to test this hypothesis, we asked subjects to give a moto…