Three new choreographers -- Julie Collins, Sasha Soreff and Heather Harrington -- will present works-in-progress that explore symbols and metaphor in dance, in a free program with post-performance audience discussion.
Beginning in their Metaphors We Live By (1980), George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argued that such language, and metaphor in particular, was not simply a phenomenon to be studied in the domain of cognition, but actively structures much of cognition traditionally thought to be isolated from metaphor.
"Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit.
An ill-fated culinary experiment, for instance, in which Irmgard boils a cow's tongue and presses it overnight in a vise, becomes an excruciating (and blackly comic) metaphor in a section where Hugo is punished for speaking English.
And the sale cannot avoid being a performance, a Conceptual installation, an institutional critique and a loaded metaphor in a place filled with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of objects that have, at least theoretically, departed the commercial realm for good.
Yes F, using similes and metaphors in description.
While Goatly (1997) limited his study to an attempt to remedy the marginalized position of lexical metaphor in SFL, Simon-Vandenbergen (2003) principally considered the make-up and interpersonal functions of lexical metaphor in a corpus of 3000 metaphorical expressions of verbal Process collected from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
"There's a confident control of form and surprising freshness of metaphor in a poetry that bears all the signs of a new generation coming through".
And that becomes a metaphor, in a life, for devotion to the experience of oneself as a worker, rather than as a mother and a wife.
A headline on Saturday with an article about the increasing number of women who serve as chief investment officers for university endowments and foundations used a "glass ceiling" metaphor in a way that conveyed the opposite point made by the article.
