How abstract concepts emerge from metaphorical images: The metonymic way

Bolognesi, Marianna; Vernillo, Paola

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2019.05.003

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“…In addition to the two factors, the abstract of the Biology concepts also becomes a factor contributing to the students' difficulty in learning Biology (Tabel 5). The concept is said to be abstract if the students do not have clear references presented in their thought (Bolognesi & Vernillo, 2019). In relation to this, the abstract concept and the fact that various Biology activities are hard to define is also reported as a natural characteristic of Biology material and becomes the primary factor of difficulty in learning Biology (Çimer, 2012).…”

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The difficulty index of biology topics in Indonesian Senior High School: Biology undergraduate students’ perspectives

Fauzi

Rosyida

Rohma

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Biology is a subject that contains of many difficult concepts to study. This study aimed to identify Biology topics taught in Senior High School (SHS) which were considered as difficult materials by undergraduate students. The data were gathered by means of a web-based survey from 198 Biology students of 25 universities and 51 Biology education students of nine universities in Indonesia. The biology students graduated from SHSs in 97 regions/municipality, while the biology education students were graduated from 34 regions/municipality. The data were analyzed using two formulas: 1) Biology Difficulty Index (BDI) to determine the difficulty index of Biology subject, and 2) Topic Difficulty Index (TDI) to examine the difficulty index of each Biology topics. The results showed that the highest value of TDI was Genetics. There was no significant difference of BDI between Biology students and Biology education students. The lower of the students’ BDI, the higher the level of their interest in Biology subject. The primary cause of difficulty encountered by the students in studying various topics of Biology was the complicated characteristics of the materials. The findings of this study can be followed up by designing diagnostic tests and instructional designs in biology topics which consider students’ difficulty.

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The difficulty index of biology topics in Indonesian Senior High School: Biology undergraduate students’ perspectives

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Rosyida

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“…For instance, Bolognesi and Vernillo (2019) proposed 'Abstraction by Metonymy' as a novel grounding mechanism for abstract concepts in the pictorial mode, where they use verbo-pictorial metaphors to investigate people's ability to illustrate abstract concepts [55]. According to their hypothesis, this abstraction process allows for an inferential mechanism that moves from concretely depicted entities to more abstract ones.…”

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Intangible features extraction in the processing of abstract concepts: Evidence from picture-word priming

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Over the last decade, hypotheses ranging from linguistic symbol processing to embodiment have been formulated to account for the content and mechanisms responsible for the representation of abstract concepts. Results of recent studies have suggested that abstract concepts, just like concrete ones, can benefit from knowledge of real-world situational context, but that they can also be processed based on abstract pictures devoid of such situational features. This paper presents two semantic priming experiments to explore such mechanisms further. The first experiment replicates Kuipers, Jones, and Thierry (2018) in a cross-linguistic setting which shows that abstract concepts can be processed from abstract pictures devoid of tangible features. In the second experiment, we studied extraction mechanisms that come into play when participants are presented with abstract and concrete pictures that provide situational information to illustrate target abstract concepts. We expected this facilitatory effect to be limited to concrete picture primes. Our data analysed with both Bayesian and Frequentist tests showed however that even when presented with tangible situational information, the extraction of features still occurred for abstract pictures. We discuss the implications of this with respect to future avenues for studying the processing of abstract concepts.

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“…M. Bolognesi and P. Vernillo research the role of metonymy in the representation of abstract concepts in the analysis of verbal and visual metaphors of the language. Such deep analysis helps students to go deeper into the understanding of underneath meanings and hidden context in the dialogue with a native speaker [1]. S. Leher & K. S. See study different methods of language learning based on the proportion of quantity and quality of language material presented [7].…”

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The Technology of the Development of Dialogical Speech Skills of the Students Based on Foreign Language Communicative Online Training

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The topic of the article is quite acute as there exists a need to search for new online educational technologies that will further increase the efficiency of foreign language educational process at modern universities in Russia. The purpose of the article is to present the methodological foundations of foreign language communicative preparation and analyze the quality of the influence of foreign language communicative online training on the development of dialogical speech skills of the students. The leading method of studying this issue is an experimental teaching method. The study was carried out among bachelor's degree students majoring in 44.03.01 «Pedagogical education» with a minor of «English as a foreign language» at Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and allowed to reveal the positive dynamics in the experimental groups. The article proves that foreign language communicative online training is a modern educational technology that aims at active development of students' dialogical speech skills and significantly differs from ordinary communicative training in the following features: the presence of certain stages correlated with the developed dialogical speech skills of students, ensuring active social preparation of students to further implementation of foreign language communication in the field of interpersonal and professional interaction; creation of conditions for expanding individual foreign language communicative experience. The materials presented in the article contribute to the integration of the procedural component of foreign language communicative online training in foreign language classes at the university.

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How abstract concepts emerge from metaphorical images: The metonymic way

Cited by 17 publications

References 25 publications

The difficulty index of biology topics in Indonesian Senior High School: Biology undergraduate students’ perspectives

The difficulty index of biology topics in Indonesian Senior High School: Biology undergraduate students’ perspectives

Intangible features extraction in the processing of abstract concepts: Evidence from picture-word priming

The Technology of the Development of Dialogical Speech Skills of the Students Based on Foreign Language Communicative Online Training

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