Recognizing the stories behind people’s concerns with vaccines can help public health advocates build a more inclusive approach to healthcare.
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The language of burnout turns up in agricultural records from more than 200 years ago, long before the term entered popular use.
Two communication scholars explain how what Americans eat became shorthand for who they are.
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to breach: the poem.
Artificial brains, humanoid robots and ‘assistants’ are misleading myths – and they directly affect how we use AI.
Metaphors help us understand complexity, but they can also be dangerous, or even misleading.
Generations of sportswriters have been inspired by Rice’s penchant for drama and flair. But the spectacular can obfuscate the real, more interesting stories taking place on and off the field.
Americans might have to wait for days, weeks or months to get an accurate determination of the winner of the presidency.
How politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
Languages don’t have a beginning that can be compared to the birth of a living being.
Swift, like all writers, draws from her literary forebears to craft new works.
Because they help to create a shared understanding, metaphors can play a critical role in navigating the gap between the knowledge patients and health-care providers bring.
The danger in these metaphors is they can subconsciously discourage reinterpretation, which can further contribute to sexist, racist and colonial influence in historical writing.
The metaphor of a collective “carpet of immunity” invites us to imagine immunity as a collaborative project, spreading out to protect those for whom the end of mandates means increased vulnerability.
Gardening provides a helpful metaphor to help us understand how individual and platform approaches to misinformation need to be accompanied by policy and cultural reforms.
Metaphors are not used for their own sake in politics, but as part of a strategy to persuade a particular audience to accept a point of view, and act accordingly
Media outlets used visual metaphors to explain to the public how election results would emerge.
Those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia may be more likely to interpret metaphorical thoughts literally.
For Germans, this is not a battle, it’s a ‘long distance run’.
Compared to other politicians who tend to be indirect and evasive, Nkrumah was direct, explicit and assertive.
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