Author : James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135621551
This book brings together writers who have studied creative thinkers in different arenas--such as the various arts (poetry, fiction, visual art, music, dance, acting), sciences (psychology, mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science), and commun
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004433236
This edited volume focuses on Spanish use in education, public spaces, and social media in five macro-regions of the United States: the Southwest, the West, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the Southeast.
Author : Alexandra Bagasheva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2022-02
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ISBN : 9781527577879
The human ability to think non-literally has attracted the interest of various scholars for thousands of years. Over the centuries, they have defined and studied an extensive variety of tropes, such as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, allegory, and irony, in terms of their communicative effectiveness and stylistic aesthetics and basically interpreted these simply as figurative linguistic expressions and mere flourishes adding flavour to underlying non-figurative content. Today, figurativity is understood as constitutive of various processes of human comprehension of the world, human communicative interactions, and everyday human functioning. This volume constitutes a representative selection of studies that provide novel answers to the open questions of how non-literal thought and non-literal expression in various media and discourses (co-)exist. The book focuses on figurative cognitive operations enabling non-literal thought, language and other semiotic expressions. The unique set of viewpoints and authorsâ (TM) contributions upholds the cognitive approach to figurativity; it positions figurativity in various discursive environments, compares and contrasts figurativity in various languages and cultures, and traces the multimodal interplay of figurativity.
Author : Avrom Fleishman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,54 MB
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139481878
It is well known that George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography traces the course of that development from her initial Christian culture, through her loss of faith and working out of a humanistic and cautiously progressive world view, to the thought-provoking achievements of her novels. It focuses on her responses to her reading in her essays, reviews and letters as well as in the historical pictures of Romola, the political implications of Felix Holt, the comprehensive view of English society in Middlemarch, and the visionary account of personal inspiration in Daniel Deronda. This portrait of a major Victorian intellectual is an important addition to our understanding of Eliot's mind and works, as well as of her place in nineteenth-century British culture.
Author : John Baer
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0128002891
Recent research findings have challenged the idea that creativity is domain-general. Domain Specificity of Creativity brings together the research information on domain specificity in creativity -- both the research that supports it and answers to research arguments that might seem to challenge it. The implications for domain specificity affect how we move forward with theories of creativity, testing for creativity, and teaching for creativity. The book outlines what these changes are and how creativity research and applications of that research will change in light of these new findings. - Summarizes research regarding domain specificity in creativity - Outlines implications of these findings for creativity theory, testing, and teaching - Identifies unanswered questions and new research opportunities
Author : Erik De Corte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3642772285
Most would agree that the acquisition of problem-solving ability is a primary goal of education. The emergence of the new information technologiesin the last ten years has raised high expectations with respect to the possibilities of the computer as an instructional tool for enhancing students' problem-solving skills. This volume is the first to assemble, review, and discuss the theoretical, methodological, and developmental knowledge relating to this topical issue in a multidisciplinary confrontation of highly recommended experts in cognitive science, computer science, educational technology, and instructional psychology. Contributors describe the most recent results and the most advanced methodological approaches relating to the application of the computer for encouraging knowledge construction, stimulating higher-order thinking and problem solving, and creating powerfullearning environments for pursuing those objectives. The computer applications relate to a variety of content domains and age levels.
Author : James C. Kaufman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1346 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108293573
Creativity is of rising interest to scholars and laypeople alike. Creativity in the arts, however, is very different from creativity in science, business, sports, cooking, or teaching. This book brings together top experts in the field from around the world to discuss creativity across many different domains. Each chapter includes clear definitions, intriguing research, potential measures, and suggestions for development or future directions. After a broad discussion of creativity across different domains, subsequent chapters look deeper into those individual domains (traditional arts, sciences, business, newer domains, and everyday life) to explore how creativity varies when expressed in different ways. Ultimately, the book offers a future-looking perspective integrating the different variations of creativity across domains.
Author : Aronsson-Storrier, Marie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 1839100303
This timely book unpacks the idea of ‘disaster’ from a variety of approaches, broadening understanding and improving the usability of this complex and often contested concept. Including multidisciplinary perspectives from leading and emerging scholars, it offers reflections on how the concept of disaster has been shaped by and within various fields of research, providing complementary and thought-provoking comparisons across many domains.
Author : Harry Witzthum
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783039109784
Evolutionary psychology's goal is to understand the design of the human mind. This book examines the arguments put forth by evolutionary psychologists and the objections levelled against them by their critics.
Author : Marta Dynel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027256144
Brings together a range of contributions on the linguistics of humour. This title elucidates the whole gamut of humorous forms and mechanisms, such as surrealist irony, incongruity in register humour, mechanisms of pun formation, as well as interpersonal functions of conversational humour
