Metaphor Hacker
Dominik Lukeš
How we use metaphors
I was reminded by this blog post on LousyLinguist that many people still see metaphor as an unproblematic homogeneous concept leading to much circular thinking about them. I wrote about that quite a few years ago in: Lukeš, D., 2005. Towards a classification of metaphor use in text: Issues in conceptual discourse analysis of a [...]
Do we need a gaming literacy: Literacy metaphor hack
I am a gaming semi-literate! I was listening to the discussion of the latest BioShock game on the latest TWiT podcast when I realized that I am in fact game illiterate. I am hearing these stories and descriptions of experiences but I know I can’t access them directly without a major investment in knowledge and [...]
Framing and constructions as a bridge between cognition and culture: Two Abstracts for Cognitive Futures
I just found out that both abstracts I submitted to the Cognitive Futures of the Humanities Conference were accepted. I was really only expecting one to get through but I’m looking forward to talking about the ideas in both. The first first talk has foundations in a paper I wrote almost 5 years ago now about [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-14
Trying to "call things by their name" is stupid. Things don't have names for people. People have names for things. http://t.co/jUkt68uA # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-10-07
Wow, what deep seated fear must #WSJ have to criticise slave rebels for use of terror 250 years later! http://t.co/t6Z6y8dY #racism # What is it about reality shifting films like Looper, Matrix or Inception that make people call them "smart"? http://t.co/855nu5y5 # The Sinister Sausage Machine http://t.co/NQqzgKQY #metaphor negotiation of market place and uniformity in [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-30
New on http://t.co/fghK93KI: The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics http://t.co/emqUvR4e # Powered by Twitter Tools
The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics [updated]
Update Part of this post was incorporated into an article I wrote with Brian Kelly and Alistair McNaught that appeared in the December issue of Ariadne. As part of that work and feedback from Alistair and Brian, I expanded the final section from a simple list of bullets into a more detailed research programme. You [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-23
Remix as Milk to Chocolate | iterating toward openness http://t.co/EtdBEymr #metaphor #oer # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-16
Amazon Doesn’t Want To Be More Like Apple, It Wants To Be More Like Amazon . com http://t.co/LYqoHSQm #metaphor # Powered by Twitter Tools
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-09-02
One person's reality is another person's metaphor. #metaphor #analogy # Philosophical realism is either obviously boring tautology or knot-tying maze of personal delusions. So what's the point. # Was dreading listening to this on #Wittgenstein & Heidegger but really enjoyed the discussion on #science & #philosophy http://t.co/E3mVYlrH # MetaphorHacker: Cliches, information and metaphors: Overcoming prejudice [...]
