Sentence examples for spatial metaphor from inspiring English sources

The second represents social links between people for which a spatial metaphor is not apparent.

This term uses a spatial metaphor to express a divide between the "inner" world of thought and the "external" world.

A strong main effect is found in which the spatial metaphor produces higher performance under all conditions.

She criticizes Harding's explication of feminist standpoint theory as being too individualist, identifying the spatial metaphor of social location as the source of this problem.

In conclusion, it is argued that the concept of the spatial metaphor has not served the designers and students of hypertext and hypermedia environments well.

The task of identifying and exploring the field is concerned with how social relations are positioned within a spatial metaphor that leads to a conceptual vision of a social reality (Harquinet et al., 2012).

Spatialization is defined as a data transformation method based on spatial metaphors, with the aim of generating a cognitively adequate graphic representation for data exploration and knowledge discovery in multi-dimensional databases.

Most of us are not very good at thinking about abstractions or spiritual states, so we rely on concrete or spatial metaphors to (imperfectly) do the job.

For instance, the weepy James Horner score is not part of the diegesis in "Titanic": it happens (or oozes) on top of the diegesis (or next to it, if you prefer egalitarian spatial metaphors).

"When we talk about time, we often use spatial metaphors like 'I'm looking forward to seeing you' or 'I'm reflecting back on the past,' " said Lynden K. Miles, who conducted the study with his colleagues Louise K. Nind and C. Neil Macrae.

Dialogical self theory makes explicit use of spatial metaphors.