Sentences with phrase «social use of metaphor»

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Rather, it is a model, which does not derive from images and reality.107 As part of language, metaphor is not only used in a textual context, but also in an oral context, providing a social context for both.

They thus came naturally to him to be used as metaphors in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom of God, to an audience predominantly consisting of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were in constant relationship with nature in their daily activities on the farm, with its experience of pathos and joy.

The social and spiritual processes of a community's response to change drive Ammerman to use the biological metaphor of ecology.»

William Jones, in «Process Theology: Guardian of the Oppressor or Goad to the Oppressed: An Interim Assessment,» uses the medical metaphor, «toxin - anti-toxin» to refer to economic, social, and political, oppression and its eradication.

I recently heard this playful metaphor of a puppy getting loose for the first time to describe how people should use social media.

In the Abstract uses stacks of bunk beds, lines of hanging clothes, and canvases encrusted with sawdust to examine the systemic abstraction of the world we live in, and its role as a metaphor for social and political reality.

Photographers may consider this theme in several ways: as the formal use of light in photography, as a metaphor (personal, spiritual, psychological, etc.), or as a representation of cultural concerns (social and political).

He continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally, with individual and social class relations being the dominant focus of his art, using materials as metaphors for these issues.

Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within ordinary and the mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.

Panopticon, meaning to observe -LRB-- opticon) all (pan --RRB-, is a metaphor encapsulating the numerous forms of surveillance used to watch and normalize social behavior.

Linked by a common subject matter, the work gathered here examines the state of race and social class in America while using the very nature of sight and the medium of photography as metaphors for inequality, invisibility, and the ways photographs inflect our perceptions of the world.

She works in the liminal region between sculpture and glassmaking to explore the possibility of creating multi-layered messages and metaphors through the use of material, drawing on her doctoral research on the legacy of Joseph Beuys and his ideas on social sculpture.

London - based Argentine artist Amalia Pica uses sculpture, performance art, photography, installation, slide projections, and drawing to create works that explore forms of communication, metaphor, and social engagement, with a particular interest in moments of failure, slippage, and mistranslation.

Given the often invoked rationale underlying the use of the living tree metaphor, it is ironic indeed that in constitutionalizing these political and social issues, the courts have «frozen» those issues in time, and thereby immunized those issues from future and evolving civic engagement, discussion and debate.

The features of Aboriginal science which give it a firm ecological grounding are the ongoing negotiation of knowledge, and the extensive use of a large range of metaphor to interpret scientific data within a social, political and economic context.

Using therapeutic metaphor to provide a holding environment: the inner edge of possibility, Clinical Social Work Journal, V29, no. 1:21 - 33.

He is the co-author with Jill Freedman of Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities, Symbol, Story, and Ceremony: Using Metaphor in Individual and Family Therapy, and Narrative Therapy with Couples... and a whole lot more: A collection of papers, essays and exercises.