How metaphors guide, teach and popularize science
"Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential functions of conceptual metaphor in the conduct of science, teaching of...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company
2020.
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| Colección: | Figurative thought and language ;
Volume 6. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009762726906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social metaphors in cellular and molecular biology / Theodore L. Brown
- Coordinating metaphors in science, learning and instruction : The case of energy / Tamer G. Amin
- Metaphor and the popularization of contested technologies / Bettina Bock von Wülfingen
- To be or not to be : reconsidering the metaphors of apoptosis in press popularisation articles / Julia T. Williams Camus
- Non-verbal and multimodal metaphors bring biology into the picture / José Manuel Ureña Gómez-Moreno
- Three metaphors in social science : use patterns and usefulness, separately and together / Thomas H. Smith
- The brain is a computer and the mind is its program : following a metaphor's path from its birth to teaching philosophy decades later / Anke Beger
- Conclusion: When metaphors serve scientific ends / Thomas H. Smith and Anke Beger.
