Sökning: "metaphorical thinking"

Visar resultat 11 - 12 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden metaphorical thinking.

  1. 11. Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd : Contemporary urban conditions with special reference to thai homosexuality

    Författare :Sopawan Boonnimitra; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Art history; Otherness; Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd; Queer Asian cinema; Konsthistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Major Asian cities like Hong Kong, Taipei and Bangkok have been constantly on the verge of rapid transformation, whether politically, socially, and particularly sexually, due to the process of capitalisation, modernisation, and globalisation over the last decade. In response to the impact of the transformation on the historical and traditional space of the city, the region's unique cultural and historical background has produced certain conditions of urban arrangements that may have put into disarray the traditional relationship between binary oppositions, whether tradition/modernity, old/new, global/local, heterosexual/homosexual, and the like. LÄS MER

  3. 12. Technology, Language and Thought : Extensions of Meaning in the English Lexicon

    Författare :Marlene Johansson Falck; Ulf Magnusson; Dirk Geeraerts; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cognitive linguistics; cognitive tools; language; English; sense development; meaning extension; thought; metaphors; metonymies; scaffoldings; entrenchment; technology; electricity; steam engines; motor vehicles; roads; ways; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; English; engelska; Engelska med didaktiskt inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, the relationship between technological innovation and the development of language and thought is analysed. For this purpose, three different fields of technology are investigated: 1) the steam engine, 2) electricity, and 3) motor vehicles, roads and ways. LÄS MER