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Bierschenk, Bernhard; Bierschenk, Inger – 2002
The Agent-action-Objective (AaO) axiom and the theory of rotational dynamics constitute the frame of reference for the study of the metaphor as instrument for the direct perception of events. The major hypothesis of this frame of reference refers to the event structure embedded in the ground of a metaphor. Since the ground is implicit in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Linguistic Performance, Metaphors, Perception
Bierschenk, Bernhard; Bierschenk, Inger – 2003
This paper describes an experiment in which 30 students, classified according to high and low analytical performance, were given a reading and text production test to determine their sensibility to the structure of an Icelandic saga. This material was used because of its extreme simplicity on the textual surface level, a property suited for…
Descriptors: Competence, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Bierschenk, Bernhard; Bierschenk, Inger – 2003
This paper presents the second study in a series that has been designed to manifest the emergence of consciousness and to measure developed competence. Its major aim has been to demonstrate that an invariant formulation of the Agent-action-Objective model and an analysis of it's a-O kinematics have the capacity to reproduce contour similarity over…
Descriptors: Competence, Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools
Bierschenk, Bernhard; Bierschenk, Inger – 1985
The empirical study of knowledge representation is the focus of this paper, which observes that language as the cognitive instrument in the communication of phenomena must be capable of expressing relations of the observer-observation kind. The paper points out that this implies a coopeartive process at work in the production of a text, of which…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Epistemology