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| | Metaphor - Factbites |
 | | Metaphorical expressions were assumed to be mutually exclusive with the realm of ordinary everyday language: everyday language had no metaphor, and metaphor used mechanisms outside the realm of everyday conventional language. | | | Metaphor is one kind of nonliteral language under the larger blanket of figurative language: language which means more than is what literally stated. | | | These metaphors have typically been invented spontaneously by people who understood some aspect of computing in order to communicate with others, to be able to tell them about something they didn't already understand. |
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http://www.factbites.com/topics/Metaphor
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| | Metaphor |
| | Metaphor is one of the most common figures of speech and many words have their origin in metaphor. | | | Computers, and animals, do not and cannot use metaphor to communicate. | | | Originally, metaphor was a Greek word meaning "transfer". |
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http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Metaphor.html
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| | Conceptual metaphor - definition of Conceptual metaphor in Encyclopedia |
| | Selection of such metaphors tends to be directed by a subconscious or implicit purpose, in the mind of s/he who chooses them. | | | A consequence of this would be great difficulty in learning a new natural language in adult life, which does seem to be the case. | | | Such critics tend to see Lakoff and Chomsky and Jacobs as 'left wing figures', and would not accept their politics as any kind of crusade against an ontology embedded in language and culture, but rather, as an idiosyncratic pastime, not part of the science of linguistics nor of much use. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Conceptual_metaphor
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| | Encyclopedia4U - Desktop metaphor - Encyclopedia Article |
| | A more user-oriented approach is gaining favour, where the user can organise documents in a manner that facilitates his or her particular needs, rather than being forced to use a file-system view of the system. | | | The desktop metaphor is a set of unifying concepts currently used in a number of GUI-based operating systems. | | | The desktop metaphor itself has been extended and stretched with various implementations, since access to features and usability of the computer are usually more important than maintaining the "purity" of the metaphor. |
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http://www.encyclopedia4u.com/d/desktop-metaphor.html
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