This paper presents GestureChords, a mapping strategy for chord selection in freehand gestural instruments. The strategy maps chord variations to a series of hand postures using the concepts of iconicity and conceptual metaphor, influenced by their use in American Sign Language (ASL), to encode meaning in gestural signs. The mapping uses the conceptual metaphors MUSICAL NOTES ARE POINTS IN SPAC...

1. Introduction The framework sometimes referred to as 'conceptual metaphor theory', with its origins in Lakoff & Johnson (1980), is one of the central areas of research in the more general field of cognitive linguistics. Within this field, the notions of 'source domains' and 'target domains', 'invariance', 'mappings', and so forth have become a common, though not universal, vocabulary for disc...

Analogical reasoning is a ubiquitous process playing a pivotal role in many disparate cognitive processes from induction, through metaphor interpretation, to creativity. We examine the role of analogy in creative reasoning highlighting the many similarities between both reasoning mechanisms. We interpret creativity as the search for some source analogue with which to reinterpret a given target ...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the conceptual framework and principles to guide knowledge mapping to foster critical and creative thinking in open content environments. We introduce knowledge mapping techniques and tools and present examples of knowledge maps applied to open learning. Then we present some principles to develop thinking skills, highlighting the importance of mapping techniq...

This study aims to explore the mapping, evolution, and application trends of co-citation analysis. To accomplish this goal, a comprehensive search was conducted using Scopus Web Science, resulting in 1298 relevant studies. Further analysis on scientific production, country, author, journal, network data. The Tree Science algorithm applied demonstrate development results make three significant c...

IRELAND Please address all correspondence (re paper and requests for reprints) to Tony Veale at the above address. Abstract Once viewed as a rhetorical and superficial language phenomenon, metaphor is now recognized to serve a fundamental role in our conceptual structuring and language comprehension processes. In particular, it is argued that certain experiential metaphors based upon intuitions...

IRELAND Please address all correspondence (re paper and requests for reprints) to Tony Veale at the above address. Abstract Once viewed as a rhetorical and superficial language phenomenon, metaphor is now recognized to serve a fundamental role in our conceptual structuring and language comprehension processes. In particular, it is argued that certain experiential metaphors based upon intuitions...

Common conceptual metaphors are used in poetry, as part of the metaphor theory, that enables poets to express their poetic images and depict world through a mixture language cultural codes. This study is an attempt show how illustrated Kurdish poems by analysing source target domains. According domain which emerges from domain, generally our common knowledge world. leads speakers listeners easi...