Coppice Woods and Pollard Trees in the Visual Arts

the role of visual aids and translation in teaching vocabulary in est

the present study investigated the effect of the two vocabulary teaching techniques in est, namely the use of translation and the use of visual aids as two separate vocabulary teaching techniques. to answer the question of the study, a pretest (michigan test) was administered to the 58 randomly selected est students at khajeh nasiredin tusi university, faculty of mechanics. after the homogeneit...

Fears for the woods and the trees

Two hundred years ago, when the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected folk legends and fairy tales (first published in two volumes in 82 and 85), central European forests were still seen as dark and dangerous places, with threats ranging from wolves to criminal gangs. Many of the tales, along with other literature of the Romantic era, reflect this fearful perception of the woods. However, ...

Trees outside woods

Metaphorical Discourse – How to Tell the Woods from the Trees

The purpose of this article is to present theoretical and empirical arguments for an analytic distinction between metaphorical discourse and conventional metaphor. Traditionally, in linguistics and anthropology, the formal approach to metaphors is to decompose them into conventional units of meaning, e.g., analytic predications. However, when dealing with everyday discourse, an analyst confront...

The Visual Arts in the Civilization Classroom

Although the visual arts have long been a feature of civilization courses, instructors do not always exploit their full potential. This paper presents a checklist to help teachers identify the relevant aspects of the arts for study. Its goal is to facilitate comprehensive treatment of works of art by focusing on three areas: the aesthetic dimension, the social context, and the artist’s own expe...