Extension Research: A Metaphoric Approach

Enhancing Metaphoric Competence through the Cognitive Approach

Studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. Metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. Most textbooks in ESL/EFL avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. This article reports a study conducted at the Islamic Azad Univ...

A Metaphoric Approach to Stakeholder Theory – Exploration Identifying Reasons for the Disclosure of Environmental Information: a Research Note

A number of theoretical perspectives have been developed across time to provide an understanding of the reasons for management’s decision to report information to stakeholders. For example, some stakeholder research is normative identifying how it is believed management should act towards stakeholders, whilst other stakeholder research is positive, seeking to explain and predict how management ...

enhancing metaphoric competence through the cognitive approach

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

Research Proposal Extension

Visual Pattern Image Coding by a Morphological Approach (RESEARCH NOTE)

This paper presents an improvement of the Visual Pattern image coding (VPIC) scheme presented by Chen and Bovik in [2] and [3]. The patterns in this improved scheme are defined by morphological operations and classified by absolute error minimization. The improved scheme identifies more uniform blocks and reduces the noise effect. Therefore, it improves the compression ratio and image quality i...