Search for dissertations about: "metaphors"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 84 swedish dissertations containing the word metaphors.
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21. Grapes in the Desert : Metaphors, Models, and Themes in Hosea 4-14
Abstract : This study explores the textual world of Hosea 4-14. To this end it uses a melhod informed by modern metaphor theory. At the outset, the hypothesis that chapters 4-14 in the book of Hosea constitute a coherent literary composition is submitted. The perspectival theory advanced by Eva F. READ MORE
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22. Metaphors Cicero lived by : The Role of Metaphor and Simile in De senectute
Abstract : Abstract This dissertation examines the function of metaphor and simile in Cicero’s dialogue De senectute. For this purpose, it employs Lakoff-Johnsonian metaphor theory and compares the metaphorical concepts that the scholars of that tradition have found in English with the metaphors found in Cicero’s text. READ MORE
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23. Making sense of adsorption : Attempting to explain the adsorption of histatin 5 with models, metaphors, and machines
Abstract : This thesis summarises two studies in which the main purpose was to find out how and why the amount of the protein histatin 5 that adsorbs to negatively charged surfaces changes with pH and ionic strength. Histatin 5 is an intrinsically disordered saliva protein, and in the oral environment it adsorbs to tooth enamel. READ MORE
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24. Making Sense of Negative Numbers
Abstract : Numbers are abstract objects that we conceptualize and make sense of through metaphors. When negative numbers appear in school mathematics, some properties of number sense related to natural numbers become contradictory. The metaphors seem to break down, making a transition from intuitive to formal mathematics necessary. READ MORE
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25. Knowing and the Art of IT Management. An inquiry into work practices in one-stop shops
Abstract : New information technology is developing faster than the models, metaphors and methods in use for conceptualizing the sharing and managing of information in organizations, in communities and in society in general. The way we utilize information technology today does not seem to succeed in supporting the everyday work practices through which organizations accomplish their work. READ MORE