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A Study of Teaching Methods Using Metaphor in Mathematics (은유를 활용한 수학 학습 지도 방안 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Youn
    • School Mathematics
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.563-580
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    • 2011
  • This study is centered on the application of metaphor theory to math education from the cognitive-linguistic view. This study, at first, introduced what metaphor is, and looked into it from the math-educational view. Furthermore, on the basis of that, this study examined the significance of metaphor to math education, and dealt with its relevance to math education, focusing on the functions that metaphor has. This study says that metaphor has the function of explanation, elaboration and representation. In addition, this study examplifies that using metaphor can be an effective math learning strategy for mathematical concept explanation, mathematical connection and mathematical representation learning.

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Study on the present condition of cognition of metaphor icon and the plan to improve it is cognition (메타포어 아이콘(Metaphor Icon)의 인지현황과 인지향상 방안에 관한 연구 - 웹 사이트(Web Site)에서 행해지는 아이콘 인지를 중심으로 -)

  • 전성복;정수연
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2003
  • In web environment, we accept most of useful information visually. Icon is a channel through which we explore information, and we need icon design to deliver information clearly and quickly to users who accept information visually. Studies on icon have been carried out vigorously according to system environment, styles and characteristics of users. This study is on the metaphor icon, and judging from the characteristics of metaphor icon, it is by the phenomena of user's association of ideas. Divide metaphor and simile and analyzed metaphor icon that is searched in World Wide Web to distinguish similarity in metaphor icon special qualify, And I clarified the present condition of cognition by questionnaires asking people if they recognize the function. I also clarified if elements of icon design influence the level of user's cognition by visually comparing icons. The result of comparative analysis showed that different elements make different level of user's cognition, and to objectify it more, I made up questionnaires about elements of icon design and proved it again. To summarize the result of this study, the similarity between function and elements of design increases the level of recognition of metaphor icon proportionally. To improve user's cognition, I suggest designing with elements which materialize functions.

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Consideration of Metaphors Appeared on Shaun Tan's 3D Short Animation, (숀 탠 (Shaun Tan)의 3D 애니메이션 에 나타난 은유적 표현에 대한 고찰)

  • Jang, Eun-Young
    • Cartoon and Animation Studies
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    • s.23
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    • pp.1-17
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    • 2011
  • The paper analyzed the metaphoric expressions appeared in whose cinematic quality has been subjectively recognized on the global stage by winning the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. Many contents and visual effects of the film were expressed with metaphor. Story and sequence were analyzed through the language system-based 'Conceptual Metaphor Analysis Framework'. In addition, characters have been analyzed through the 'Visual Metaphor Analysis Framework'. The framework is to analyze visual dimensions which are derived when concepts are structuredin animation. This paper has attempted to investigate and reveal patterns how animation self-organizes or how animation self-realizes through linguistic objectives. That is, it is to reveal how animation communicates with the audience from the metaphoric perspective among many conventional ones. In an animated film, metaphor is a fundamental means to connect fragmented images, produce a holistic view and therefore induce creative communication with the audience. The essential motive of metaphor which is expressed in various styles in is modern people's feeling of loss and sense of missing something. Train, bottle top, food, lost-and-found center, in-between space and lost items have significance across the movie. According to an analysis, metaphor offers simplicity and freshness as an aesthetic function. In addition, the metaphor expresses lengthy contents and various meanings implicitly, delivering an economic function. With a creative function, metaphor is a tool to generate new meanings. In other words, an animated film is a medium to inspire and move the general public as a means of communication and thinking, not just an entertainment for young generations. After all, metaphoric expressions have been used to deliver diverse and deep meanings in animated films.

A Cognitive Analysis on the Polysemous Perception Verbs (영어 지각동사의 인지적 연구)

  • 지인영
    • Lingua Humanitatis
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    • v.5
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    • pp.265-289
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    • 2003
  • This paper deals with the polysemous phenomenon of perception verbs in terms of metaphor and metonymy and suggest a model of cognitive semantic structure for them. English perception verbs are often used for representing a mental, cognitive activity as well as representing a physical, perceptive activity. This paper looks for a basis for the polysemous use in the creative system of metaphor and metonymy, especially in the meaning extension function of mind-as-body metaphor. English perception verbs show a good example of a metaphor of domain transfer from physical domain to mental or cognitive domain. This paper suggests the conceptual chain and the semantic structure for the perception verb to show the possibility of polysemy and contextual modulation.

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A study on difficulties in conceptualizing fractions from the perspective of metaphor (은유의 관점에서 본 분수 개념화의 어려움)

  • Hwang, Hyun Mi;Hong, Jin-Kon
    • Education of Primary School Mathematics
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.321-331
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    • 2024
  • This study aims to analyze the difficulties encountered in the process of conceptualizing fractions from the perspective of metaphor. To achieve this, metaphors in mathematics education were examined by dividing them into natural conceptualizations through metaphor and their extension to educational metaphors. Subsequently, the difficulties in learning fractions through metaphorical conceptualization were analyzed from three aspects: the integration of multiple metaphors, interference from previously formed grounding metaphors, and the paradoxes of metaphor. Through this analysis, the study highlights the need for careful attention to how metaphors function during fraction learning and aims to provide insights for devising instructional strategies for teaching fractions.

A Study on the Metaphor "Liver is the Admiral from which Strategic Planning is derived" in 『Suwen Linglanmidianlun』 -Focusing on its Association with Liver Function- (『소문(素問)·영란비전론(靈蘭秘典論)』의 "간자(肝者), 장군지관(將軍之官), 모려출언(謀慮出焉)."에 대한 고찰 -간(肝)의 기능과의 연관성을 중심으로-)

  • Ahn, Jinhee;Shin, Sang-won;Yoon, Eunkyung
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.159-178
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    • 2020
  • Objectives : The purpose of this paper is to study the metaphor that the liver is the admiral from which strategic planning is derived in 『Suwen Linglanmidianlun』 in relation to Liver function. Methods : Annotations to the verse along with descriptions of strategic planning in classical texts and their relation were examined. Results : Previous annotators described the Admiral organ and Strategic Planning separately, in which it is difficult to fully explain the totality the two. They cannot be separated from each other, and only when they are in dependence of each other can they become complete. Liver function as described in classical texts and contemporary text books such as detoxification and sterilization all embody this meaning of strategic planning of an admiral. Conclusions : Reinterpretation of the Liver function based on an integrated understanding of the Liver as described in 『Suwen Linglanmidianlun』 is required. This will allow for better understanding of what the metaphor means, and to better connect this description to Liver physiology for an integrated understanding of the Liver itself in Korean Medicine.

Metaphor and Design Methods of 'Forest' in Sou Fujimoto's Design (소우 후지모토의 공간에 나타난 '숲'의 은유와 디자인 방법)

  • Ji, Yi Cheng;Shim, Eun Ju
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.119-127
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    • 2015
  • Sou Fujimoto is well known as the 3rd Japanese architect to participate in the Serpentine Pavilion project, especially youngest of all architects. His projects seem very experimental yet inviting, modern yet comforting and these feeling may be resulted in his metaphor of 'Forest' that is very often mentioned in his writings which originally comes from his personal experience of the city and nature. The purpose of this paper is to understand the Fujimoto's metaphor of 'Forest' and design language he uses to express this very idea. The researchers have analyzed Fujimoto's writings and interviews in order to understand his general design ideas and process, then extracted wordings describing 'Forest' in his works. Four main concepts were found and categorized as follows: blurring territorial boundaries, proliferation of parts, manipulating spatial relationships, and ambiguity in function. Then two or three projects were selected and analyzed in each category to understand design methods used. The results show that Fujimoto enjoys using gradation of density to blur territorial boundaries in order to express ambiguous outline of forest, and fractal reproductions in proliferation of parts to uses express wavering whole and modifying angles in manipulating spatial relationships to show hidden order.

A Semantic Analysis of Human Body Russian Slang (사람의 신체에 대한 러시아어 슬랭의 의미론적 분석)

  • Kim, Sung Wan
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.31
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    • pp.241-262
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    • 2013
  • In this study, we select and analyze the slang that is represented in Elistratov's "Dictionary of Russian slang". Through the above analysis, some conclusions were drawn as follows: First, as a social and psychological phenomenon appears universal in all languages, the study of slang generates strict criteria for the analysis. Unlike literary language, listed in the dictionary slang expressions can become obsolete for their short period of usage by native speakers. Therefore, in the following research of the actual data, we have to validate words targeted for analysis. Second, as the result of the analysis it is metaphor for the most part studied rather than metonymy. The semantic derivations as a result of metonymy are used very frequently in real life. But in this study we mainly analyze words, therefore the number of words was less in metonymy than was expected. Third, the basic types of metaphor are appeared as similarity by form, function, and location, and there are varieties of intervening of subjectivity in similarity of emotional impression. Fourth, the metonymy is divided into three cases: the part meaning the whole, the whole meaning the part, and some thing meaning the reality of where it exists. Fifth, not only literary language, but also slang as the 'transitional process' is the most active way of development of new meanings, and there are two methods to transfer main meaning to second meaning.

Unconscious Signs in Visual Signification of Lacan's Metaphor (라캉 은유의 시각적 의미작용을 통한 무의식적 기호 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Hyeok
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.88-96
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    • 2015
  • The universe of discourse presented in the visual image is bound up with the experience and culture of parties; its sender and recipient. Signification of visual message is revealed through the mutual independent process. The mechanism where production of signifiant by sender and reception of metaphoric signifiant function unconsciously can be applied to Lacan's theory;"The unconscious is structured like a language". By applying Lacan's metaphoric formula which takes linguistic approach to visual image it is suggested that analysis of signification is possible. This analysis can be a base for seeking varied level of signifiant presented in visual metaphor logically and practically. Metaphoric structure of the signifiant and the matrix analysis can develop a creative idea and propose a practical way for the visual image production. Thus empirical study about nastic response and the future analysis result is expected to be possible.

A Study on the Characterization of Post-Modernism Interior Design inAttri Language bute (언어성에서 본 포스트모더니즘 실내디자인의 특성연구)

  • 이춘섭
    • Archives of design research
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    • no.18
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 1996
  • Interior is composed of void spaces decided by many substances and the function of the spaces which creat its valuation. Accordingly interior space makes peculiar forms by synthesizing each interior elements and its abstractness. Therefore characteristic of the expressed word and symbolic system become interior wholeness. The focus of this paper is to analyze interior words and the symbolic systems scientifically. The content is composed of 5 major parts. The 1st and 2nd chapter deal with Introduction and the Characterization of Interior Design. Linguistic symbol and metaphor which decide Post-Modern interior style were studied in the 3rd chapter. In the 4th chapter. this paper analysed linguistic character of interior words which need to express character of tradition. decoration, and publicity, expccially through code and metaphor. Finally Thematic I-louse library interior space designed by Charles Jencks was linguistically researched as a study model.

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