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Melinda Lanius – PRIMUS, 2024
In this paper, I analyze the impact of culture and metaphor on cryptology education. I will compare and contrast the historically grounded metaphors of cryptology-is-warfare and encryption-is-security to a set of counter-metaphors: cryptology-is-privacy and encryption-is-communication. Using this explicit understanding of conceptual metaphor, I…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Technology, Coding, Information Security
Nathan, Mitchell J.; Jackson, Kristi – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2006
The prominent role of Boolean classes in qualitative data analysis software is viewed by some as an encroachment of logical positivism on qualitative research methodology. The authors articulate an embodiment perspective, in which Boolean classes are viewed as conceptual metaphors for apprehending and manipulating data, concepts, and categories in…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Data Analysis, Qualitative Research, Coding
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Hino, Yasushi; Pexman, Penny M.; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2006
According to parallel distributed processing (PDP) models of visual word recognition, the speed of semantic coding is modulated by the nature of the orthographic-to-semantic mappings. Consistent with this idea, an ambiguity disadvantage and a relatedness-of-meaning (ROM) advantage have been reported in some word recognition tasks in which semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Word Recognition, Classification