The title indicates a theme (the songs were reportedly written in various hotel rooms), and if you think the hotel-as-metaphor concept sounds like a rip-off of MOBY'S new CD "HOTEL" (V2), you should know that Mr. Adams got there first: his "Room Service" was released overseas last fall.
When faced with an unknown concept, data analysts and clinical researchers frequently used metaphors, (concept A is concept B), and analogies, (concept A is like B) to link fuzzy concepts to more familiar ones.
We have justified the claim that agent-based computing has the potential to provide a powerful suite of metaphors, concepts and techniques for conceptualizing, designing and implementing complex (distributed) systems.
In a similar way, Gong, Ahrens & Huang (2008) identify the most frequent collocate of a metaphor source concept in order to determine the mapping principle between that source domain and a target domain.
The revised title of Winter in America was intended to represent Scott-Heron's use of the season of winter as a metaphor and concept of his view of the issues facing society during his time.
Having revisited the history and the concepts of molecular biology with this aim in focus, I follow the path opened up by the pioneering investigators who took seriously what was (and usually still is) just perceived as a metaphor, the concept of the genetic program.
How do analogies and metaphors influence concept formation?
The original method implies comparing the metaphors and concepts in one account with the metaphors and concepts in others [ 12]; but it was unclear to us exactly how to do this.
A conceptual metaphor takes one concept and connects that to another concept in order to better understand that concept.
But he's also got a storehouse of metaphors and concepts for child-rearing and for life that he dips into without hesitation or doubt.
In short, metaphors are concepts that frame thinking and feeling.
