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Drunkenmölle, Tomas – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2012
In current literature, metaphor is treated as either an instance of implicit comparison or as a nonliteral class-inclusion statement. I will argue that, contrary to these positions, the notions of comparison and class-inclusion are not mutually exclusive in character but rather complementary cognitive concepts which entail one another. While…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis, Semantics, Teaching Methods
Della Chiesa, Bruno – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2010
For potential consideration by the Mind, Brain, and Education community, here is a modest but provocative hypothesis regarding the relationships between acquisition of languages, awareness of cultures, and development of ethics in human beings. Starting from the basic idea according to which "a fish does not know what water is," and using both…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Ethics