The six metaphors analyzed in this paper unfold stepwise into an interdisciplinary systems framework based on planning …, relationships and diversity and demanding ethics in our relations. These six metaphors raise some pressing questions on the … myopia, ecological loss and the rise of violence in society. Economic implications of these metaphors are reviewed to …

investigates the extent to which metaphors are used in the translation of English to Malay technical texts the study highlights … particular challenges in translating technical texts from English to Malay with the focus on the use and translation of metaphors … a manner that is more reader-friendly.  The discussion of this paper not only centres on metaphors playing an important …

This paper deals with the way metaphors carried over from physical or biological systems condition the analysis of … economic systems. The metaphors drawn from Newtonian mechanics, or from conservative fields of force, by neoclassical … economists are discussed. Alternative metaphors which involve non-homeostasis and time irreversible processes are then outlined …

This paper considers how companies use their own mass communication media to create, with the aid of metaphors, a …