Images in Language
Metaphors and Metamorphoses
Published on 16. November 2011
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-3-631-62046-5 (ISBN)
Description
Learning and teaching are faced with radically new challenges in today's rapidly changing world and its deeply transformed communicational environment. We are living in an era of images. Contemporary visual technology - film, video, interactive digital media - is promoting but also demanding a new approach to education: the age of visual learning has begun. This is especially true for tertiary-level education, for it is here that, on the one hand, teachers for the entire school system are trained, and on the other hand, education and research meet. Visual learning is not merely an option, it is a necessary correlate of the way in which science and scholarship today develop.
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Persons
András Benedek is Professor and Head of the Department of Technical Education at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has published several papers on human resource development issues.
Kristóf Nyíri is Professor of Philosophy at the same Department. His main fields of research are the philosophy of images and the philosophy of time.
Content
Contents: Andras Benedek: Preface - Biljana Radic-Bojanic: Imagery As a Metaphorical Vocabulary Learning Strategy - Franz Dotter/ Marlene Hilzensauer: <<SignOnOne>>: Visual Language Learning for the Deaf Only or for All Others Also? - Jean-Remi Lapaire: Visuo-Kinetic Explorations of Grammar - Kristof Nyiri: Time As a Figure of Thought and As Reality - Zoltan Koevecses: Contextual Images As Visual Metaphors - Mikkel Haaheim: Metaphor Is a Constellation - Petra Aczel: Enchanting Bewilderment: Concerns for Visual Rhetoric - Gabriella Nemeth: The Visual Rhetorical Figures of the Giant Billboard <<ARC>> (Face) Exhibition - Anna Szlavi: The Image of Women. A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Billboards - Agnes Veszelszki: Image and Self-representation - Gabor Bencsik: The Image As a Historical Source - Zsuzsanna Kondor: <<World Picture>> and Beyond - Representation Revisited - John Mullarkey: Temple Grandin's Animal Thoughts: On Non-Human Thinking in Pictures, Films, and Diagrams - Dieter Mersch: Aspects of Visual Epistemology: On the <<Logic>> of the Iconic.