Sentence examples for process metaphor from inspiring English sources

So the idea here in the Chinese restaurant process metaphor, we have tables.

The platform follows a general process metaphor with specialised modules for specific parts, i.e. it starts with defining the problem to be addressed and through a sequence of steps concludes with a proposed solution.

This affective power of metaphors is consistent with the module model that we automatically process metaphors and that their initial processing is not open to willful alteration.

Glucksberg's experiments suggest that humans immediately process metaphors.

Examples can be found throughout the third canticle, often overlapping with the mental-process metaphors, and in them lies the pathos of the Paradiso.

Scientists have disagreed for decades about how the brain processes metaphors, those figures of speech that liken one thing to another without using "like" or "as".

During the second season, I recruited a teenager who was struggling considerably with her mental illness at the time to plant a bunch of sunflower seeds with me and used the process as metaphor.

The brain is not a logically structured organ; these processes of connection resemble the processes of metaphor more than those of logic.

But "dead" metaphors (as opposed to "dying" ones, in Orwell's classification) are barely processed as metaphor, which is why people don't even notice them.

Lacan argues that we rely upon the linguistic processes of metaphor and metonymy in the symbolic order to attempt to satisfy desire (an attempt doomed to fail because we can never satisfy our most primordial desire to be one with the wholeness of the maternal body nor will we ever achieve total mastery).

Without invoking Lakoff's notational formalisms, we examine the factors that may discourage people from recognizing their automatic processing of metaphors, primary processes which are as much a part of our evolved psychological features as our ability to analyze metaphors.