Coping with Metaphor. A cognitive approach to translating metaphor

The present article focuses on the translation of metaphor by expert translators, young professional translators and non-professional translators. The approach adopted here treats translation of metaphor as a conceptual rather than a purely linguistic phenomenon, based on the framework sometimes referred to as conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), which is based on Lakoff & Johnson (1980) and Lakoff & Turner (1989). The basic assumption behind this study is that translating metaphor requires translator competence, which among other things entails an awareness of the duality of the metaphor as both a mental concept and linguistic expressions. It is further assumed that translation competence is developed through extensive training and translation experience. The study starts with a qualitative analysis of the metaphorical expressions and translation strategies in the sample texts, followed by a quantitative analysis whereby the frequencies of metaphor transference across languages and across groups are counted

Making sense of the corporate philosophy:: Dialogic employee engagement, and narrative positioning

We find an increased interest in the concept of employee engagement within the area of organizational and corporate communication. Employee engagement is an umbrella term for a number of cognitive, emotional and physical aspects (Kahn, 1990) of relating positively to one’s work, and research within this area has mostly connected employee engagement to organizational productivity and effectiveness. In this paper, we suggest a new approach to employee engagement by relating it to employee communication and placing it within dialogue theory (Buber, 1970) combined with Bamberg’s (1997) positioning theory. Our case is a strategy meeting on the topic of how a corporate philosophy devised by top management and entitled “Business Kind2Mind” is interpreted by managers and what they view is the best way to implement the philosophy within subsidiaries. Theorizing engagement dialogically enables a shift from instrumental perspectives to a more interpretive approach in which true mutuality entails participants’ views being heard and incorporated in the corporate philosophy, and engagement is not purely about efficiency and outcome. A dialogical approach enables us to conceive of employee communication not as only upwardly or downwardly directed between manager and employee, but as interactional, with mutual change

Introduction

In this issue of Academic Quarter, we focus on the network approach. Throughout the past 40 years the network perspective seem to have become the go-to analytical approach that emphasizes relation-making processes and descriptions of how phenomena come into being within the social sciences and the humanities. With this issue we want to engage in a discussion of the appropriateness and relevance of the network approach, and to ask; what do we (still) gain by applying a network perspective? The call for the issue invited contributions from the humanities and the social sciences. Resultantly the issue now, fortunately, contains nine articles from a range of scholarly fields. The different approaches to the concept, theories and methodologies of network(s) inherent in this issue show how thinking in networks, infrastructures, agents and actors still function as a productive scholarly perspective that enables new insights into the interplay between humans and technology, the individual and the collective and societal reproduction and change

Maize root growth and P uptake dependency on spatial distribution of sewage sludge, sewage sludge ash, and TSP

Shoot P uptake from TSP was largely increased by the localized placement. For the ASH, the localized placement clearly decreased shoot P uptake from the ash. For Sewage Sludge, localized placement decreased P uptake from the soil whereas P uptake from the sludge was almost unaffected. • Overall, total shoot P uptake was significantly affected by the treatment (p<0.005)

Brukeransettelser. Håndbok for virksomheter som ønsker å ansette personer med egenerfaring innen psykisk helse- og rusfeltet.

Håndbok for virksomheter som ønsker å ansette personer med egenerfaring innen psykisk helse- og rusfeltetNasjonalt senter for erfaringskompetans

Kærligheden og de druknedes land – interview med Tiphanie Yanique

&nbsp;Interview af Astrid Nonbo Andersen &amp; Sine Jensen Sme

MONTAGE: MOSKUSOKSER I DELE OG HELER I KANGERLUSSUAQ, VESTGRØNLAND: En etnografisk montage

Montage: Moskusokser i dele og heler i Kangerlussuaq, Vestgrønlan

Kostnadskartlegging av fylkeskommunale fagskoler

På oppdrag fra Kunnskapsdepartementet har Deloitte og NIFU kartlagt kostnadene i de fylkeskommunale fagskolene. Hensikten har vært å skaffe oversikt over fylkeskommunenes samlede kostnader til fagskoler, hvordan kostnadene fordeler seg på ulike utdanninger og hva som forklarer kostnadsvariasjon. Kartleggingen er gjort med sikte på å skaffe til veie et faktagrunnlag for et nytt incentivbasert finansieringssystem