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In this reflective narrative, the author ponders the abstract nature of knowledge and knowing. The peeling of an onion while she sits in her father's garden recounting her funds of knowledge serves as an ontological and epistemological metaphor for her learning. (TD)

The objective is to problematize analogies and metaphors used to refer to artifacts, phenomena, practices and subjects linked to Latin American interstate borders, on different timescales. It seeks to describe and analyze the different expressive and argumentative uses of these resources valued for their usefulness to focus attention on certain attributes or features of the object of knowledge that is being constructed, granting familiarity and proximity. However, these are subterfuges that often contribute to crystallize stereotyped, stigmatizing images and reduce the critical potential of investigations. Through its use, a potential risk of analytical simplification and transfer of meanings associated with ideological biases is generated. To develop the work, a corpus made up of press articles, reports and academic papers, referring to Latin American interstate borders, is systematized, where the focus is on the use given to three words: mules, coyotes, ants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Obesity surgery is a medical technique that modifies the digestive tract to enforce weight loss. This normalisation process provides an experience of bodily, symbolic and socio-political transformation. The aim of this article is to analyse the transformation experience of people who undergo an obesity surgery through the metaphors embedded in their narratives. A multi-sited ethnographic study was carried out between 2017 and 2020, involving participant observation in a bariatric surgery clinic, interviews with people who had undergone the process and an analysis of public discourse. The study results reveal how obesity surgery is presented as a mediator that enables individuals to leave behind their overweight condition and the meanings forged around it, in order to establish practical and symbolic relationships with modern and individualistic subjectivities. In the narratives, the metaphors of "ugly duckling" and "modern hero" encapsulate the corporal, social, political and moral dimensions of the transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ignorance has been seen as a negative issue for human kind. Nevertheless, under certain contexts ignorance can be an impulse for the develop of knowledge, not only because it is a motivation for the researcher but also because a classification for the unknown makes ignorance as relevant as knowledge. On that lane, scientific models, as representations, are fictions or possibilities because they expose something that is unknown or known just in a partial way, making them a form of specific ignorance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Polarization has become a popular word in recent years, as its meaning has been extended beyond the political field to any situation of conflict in other contexts. This work presents a detailed study of the frequency, contexts and meaning extension of the word in a corpus of news from the two main Spanish newspapers, El País and El Mundo, in 2021. For this, methodologies from both Corpus Linguistics and Critical Socio-cognitive Discourse Analysis have been combined, by analyzing frequencies, collocations, syntactic constructions as well as contexts, image schemas and the conceptual metaphors that shape its meaning. Results point to a possible abuse of the term in the media and the confirmation of polarization as a keyword, playing an essential role in political and media discourse, defining the current socio-cultural context in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper constitutes a reflective article arising from the research project entitled Learning two figurative uses in early childhood. Challenges and implications for education, funded by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana between 2015 and 2020. It analyzes the need for early childhood and primary school teachers to make a conscious and explicit use of metaphors and idioms in their classroom pedagogical practices, taking into account the linguistic particularities that characterize these expressions and their relevance for learning from early ages. Likewise, a proposal is offered that allows the incorporation of metaphors and idioms in the classrooms of these educational levels, in a gradual and increasing way, taking into account the pragmatic comprehension skills of the children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Argumentative discussions are commonly described in adversarial terms, but it is not obvious that argumentation is necessarily adversarial. Here I argue that adversariality is not an essential element in argumentation and in fact it must be avoided because it discourages reasonable behaviour. Reasonableness, characterised here as willingness to modify one's own beliefs in the light of good arguments, is jeopardised by adversarial goals. That gives us a reason to reject adversariality in argumentation, since reasonableness contributes to some of the greatest goods that argumentation can provide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I further explore the theoretical proposal of what I call transnational care plots. I do so based on an approximately decade-long research agenda on migration and care, using over a hundred stories and nearly fifty body mappings derived from a multi-sited and collaborative ethnography conducted in Colombia and Spain (Cali, Medellin, Cartagena, Bogota, Barcelona, and Madrid). I draw on the notion of global care chains, as coined by Arlie Hochschild, to provide a metaphor that leads to a more fluid and acute mental picture of the number and complexity of the intertwining trajectories of those who migrate and care in a world that does not yet give fair recognition to the implications of the transnationalized care regime on life in general, and on the lives of migrants in particular. Drawing on Stuart Hall's dissertations on the usefulness of metaphors in the domain of theorizing -- what he calls "wrestling with angels" -- and on narratives constructed from multisite ethnography and a reflexive approach, I develop the image of transnational care plots as a metaphor with discursive, somatic, political, aesthetic and affective dimensions. Little has been written about Colombia's place in these chains or plots, despite the fact that it is one of the central countries in the operation of the transnationalized care regime. At the same time, I develop a complexification of the so far little explored notion of global care chains, which is essential to envisioning and shaping the narratives of migrant care workers and to understand the politics of dispossession involved there. This, in turn allows us to imagine possible futures that go against the tide and which "wrestle with the angels.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over recent years, internet TV series have grown in popularity to become one of the audiovisual products with the highest audiences worldwide. The Covid-19 crisis, with long quarantines and other limitations on movement, has further increased their success during 2020-21. English is by far the most common language for such series, which are typically offered to nonanglophone viewers in translated format, with either subtitles or dubbing. One of the main challenges in translation here concerns the use of IDIOMS, since these do not always have a fixed equivalent in the target language. Taking as a starting point a corpus of four drama series from Netflix and Amazon Prime, this study considers the metaphorical dimension of the idioms in original TV series in English and subtitles of these in Spanish and Portuguese. The aim is to analyze the strategies used in the translation process, and to look at the differences between the original dialogues and the translated subtitles from a metaphorical and idiomatic point of view. In the case of both Spanish and Portuguese, the analysis will consider both European and American varieties of the languages. The data are described from a cognitive and contrastive perspective, according to the methodology developed by Labarta Postigo (2020). The results of the analysis show a general trend towards the reduction of metaphorical expressions in the translated subtitles. Contrastive analysis reveals that there are fewer differences between translations to the two languages, Spanish and Portuguese, than between varieties of the same language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Essay's aim is to examine, through the symbolism of writing and the metaphors of Amalia Guglielminetti, the liminal condition of female figures and their capacity to transform, indicative of the difficulties experienced by women writers in the first half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the context of various reforms to the Chilean educational system and the demonstrations that it has provoked, the objective of this investigation is to analyse the metaphorical concepts about the figure of the teacher. In the study we used a qualitative approach and a phenomenological design. 168 Chilean English Teaching students who were in the final years of their undergraduate degree answered an eliciting metaphor questionnaire. The analysis of the metaphorical expressions obtained from the questionnaire was carried out through semantic content analysis. From this analysis, three major categories were defined: metaphors focused on the teacher, metaphors focused on the students and metaphors focused on the teacher's social recognition. The results show that, even though the subjects are aware of the difficulties of their practice, they have a positive impression of the teaching practice. In parallel, the prevailing idea was that of the teacher as a medium for the learning of his or her students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Studies on metaphor and models have been receiving wider attention and getting a deeper understanding of the role these resources play in scientific theories. From Mary Hesse and Max Black's seminal works in 1960's a wellspring of metaphor and models accounts has raised in the fields of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Cognitive Sciences and Science Teaching. History of science has played an important role in showing the ubiquity of metaphorical process in science. This paper aims to clarify how metaphor play that major role in the context of discovery by being one of the most reliable thought tools for scientists in "knitting" the plausible and unobservable into the previous accepted world of the theory and by generating trustworthy access to theoretical entities and fertile explanatory hypotheses. We tent to show how this was possible through a philosophical demystification of its power and function and how to a certain extent, metaphors are synthetic models and models are systematic metaphors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the use of euphemisms in discourses of the National Institute of Migration (INM) regarding its policy on migration in irregular transit through Mexican territory. To achieve this, a qualitative analysis of euphemisms is performed as conceptual metaphors in press releases of the INM and its purposes. We conclude that the use of euphemisms in the discourses of the INM implies the concealment and the misrepresentation of reality that constitute its migratory control actions to the detriment of migrants in transit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to develop a linguistic analysis focused on conceptual metaphors related to the sea (or other bodies of water) in order to understand how traditional gender roles are constructed through such metaphors in the movie The Yacht Isabel Arrived This Afternoon. Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) is applied, in particular the concepts of structural and ontological metaphors, as well as the notions of discursive power (van Dijk, 2004) and ideology (van Dijk, 2008). The analysis shows that structural and ontological metaphors throughout the film portray the man as the captain, the protector, and the woman's victim. On the other hand, metaphors representing the woman are the sea, the yacht and the shipwreck. The conclusion is that a feedback process contributes to the dissemination and perpetuation of ideologies of gender roles. The concept of «linguistic obedience» (Komska, Moyd & Gramling, 2019) is key to explain the linguistic behavior of the characters in the film. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text presents a research work about the dominant metaphors of diseases in Western society, from the end of the 20th century to the present; we start from the study of the visual artistic practices that have approached this problem. For this, we have developed a critical and comparative analysis of a selection of artistic strategies, and we contrast them with the theoretical contributions of the main experts in the matter. This has allowed us to locate and systematize the main processes of metaphorization in this period; all of them will be defined and encompassed from the otherness. The results achieved have been possible to prove a further strengthening of negative metaphors of the diseases; they are enhanced by the rise of the cult of the healthy body in our society. In addition, we verify the capacity of visual artistic practices as tools of resignification of the diseases; they favor other less stigmatizing conceptualizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze metaphors and their persuasive function in journalistic discourses in favor of migrants in irregular transit through Mexico. To do this, conceptual metaphors used in texts on Central American transit migration in the Mexican national press of 2014 will be analyzed. Likewise, the metaphor is discussed as a mechanism of persuasion through the appeal to emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Gonzalo Portocarrero constructed three metaphors to explain the dynamics of racism in Peru, that is, to try to describe its mode of operation and the particular way in which it had been produced (and established) in social practices and in the social imaginary. The three metaphors were the following: the invisible foundation, the ghost of the patron and the utopia of whitening or «blanqueamiento». This essay explains each of them and brings them into dialogue with some of the main contributions that, in order to understand it, have been proposed in Peru and in current critical theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to analyze the relationship between daily life and sociological reclassifications in the "meaning turn" proposed by Giddens, Bourdieu, Habermas and Luhmann. From the methodology of the "problematic approach", it traces their uses of spatial metaphors of "horizon" and "background", which explicit the characteristics of meaning as the condition of possibility of the social. Among the results, it is detected that Giddens, Bourdieu and Habermas find in the everyday life the metaphorical space of observation of meaning, whereas Luhmann does it in a formal world. So, the article approaches the ways in which sociology reclassifies the general social (re)classifications, which also reclassify the sociological ones. As a conclusion, an interplay of transformation, disruption or disconnection emerges, in which the importance or not of everyday life allows to establish a space of transformation between sociological and social reclassifications or limits and closes that possibility understood as irritation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Online support forums focused on health and illness represent geographies of social action in which rules of behavior, stances, roles, identities and discourses are negotiated, thus overcoming the stigma associated with some pathologies. The aim of the present qualitative study was to identify the functions accomplished by metaphors in the interactions taking place in a recovery forum for eating disorders. The sample included 488 messages published in 30 threads. The metaphors were identified applying the Pragglejaz method. The analysis revealed that the forum members used metaphors to fulfill three specific functions: to explain a complex meaning in more concrete terms collaboratively (ideational function); to build the coherence and the cohesion in the interactive discourse of the forum; and to sustain the speech acts of asking and giving advice, qualifying the content of the dispreferred responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the basis of conceptual metaphor theory and from the perspective of conversation analysis, this paper focuses on conceptual metaphors, metaphorical expressions, and the formulation efforts carried out by doctors and patients to communicate different aspects of cardiac crises. The main questions articulated in this study are: How do interactants describe and reconstruct cardiac crises and associated events? What role and relevance do metaphorical procedures have in those conversational tasks? According to the discursive roles, is it possible to identify specificities in the selection of metaphor type, in the chosen procedures and formulation resources, and in the functions metaphors acquire in the exchanges?. The analysis is based on a corpus of conversations among cardiologists and patients that took place in different healthcare services institutions in Argentina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present article analyzes the relationship between the interpretative repertoire of romantic love and gender violence. We conducted eight life stories with young people between 25 and 35 years old (3 boys and 5 girls), focused on their relationships. We have resorted to discourse analysis, specifically the analysis of interpretative repertoires. This approach has allowed us to identify, characterize and analyze the interpretative repertoire of romantic love. The results show how romantic love's interpretative repertoire guides to appropriate ways of feeling, helping heterosexual, romantic, monogamous and long lasting relationships that are the basis for patriarchy, generating the conditions of possibility for the emergence and maintenance of gender violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Enric Miralles won his first International competition with the Bremerhaven port (1993). Diving through the original artwork of his files 1, they are first presented here some of his preparatory sketches. This is the project that shows the architect way of doing, as well as the embryo of his works at EMBT studio 2. The article regards a previous work, the study for the Osthafen fluvial zone (Frankfurt, 1992); relating it to the other. Miralles would invent extremely experimental ways of working that would make an inflection point on his career. Both the depth of the documents and the techniques used for thinking of them -related indissolubly to the project- some allegories, metaphors, icons, fragments... could be perceived. A reading of his most narrative aspect is done. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]