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Metaphor:"If you lay a bed of nails you will have to sleep on it". Not that this statement has anything to do with sleeping on a bed of nails. It is only in reference to the decisions that one makes in life. A good decision refers to a more comfortable life; whereas a bad decision refers to a more difficult life. Defining metaphor A metaphor turns imagination in ways that forge an equivalence or identity between separate elements of experience. Specially, metaphor creates meaning by understanding one phenomenon through another in a way that encourages [url=http://www.vivid-host.com/barbour.htm]www.vivid-host.com/barbour.htm[/url] us to understand what is common (Morgan, 1983). The idea that "one lays a bed of nails", is that one finds hardship in bad decisions made in [url=http://www.bankonco.com/hollister.php]hollister[/url] life. Though [url=http://www.bankonco.com/hollister.php]hollister france[/url] this metaphor has nothing to do with nails, one can relate to the idea of sleeping on nails to be very difficult. As stated by Morgan, (1980), metaphors are based on partial truths. He gives an example of a boxer being described as a tiger in the ring. In comparing the boxer to the tiger he is only talking about movement, strength, grace, and speed, not the actual stripes and four claws of the tiger. Metaphor is often regarded as no more than a literary and descriptive device for embellishment, but more fundamentally is a creative form which produces its effect through a crossing of images (Morgan, 1980). Metaphor has been shown to exert an important influence upon the development of language (Morgan, 1980, Muller, 1897). Metaphor has also been shown to play an important part in the use of language, cognitive development, and the general way in which humans forge conceptions about their reality (Morgan, 1980).
Metaphors in discipline The use of metaphor serves to generate an image for studying a subject (Morgan, 1980). This image can provide the basis for detailed scientific research based upon attempts to discover the extent to which features of the metaphor are found in the subject of inquiry (Morgan, 1980). Once metaphors have been introduced into the language of a discipline, they can persist for [url=http://www.1855sacramento.com/woolrich.php]woolrich bologna[/url] a number or reasons (Pinder, Bourgeois, 1982). One reason is that hypotheses stated in terms of them do not have enough clear content to be falsifiable (Pinder, Bourgeois, 1982). Pinder and Bourgeois (1982) stated the danger in using metaphors is that we may not notice that the object being metaphorically described does not share many, if any defining characteristics of the object used metaphorically. For example in my own statement regarding the bed of nails, which has nothing to do with nails, it is only in reference to bad decision made in our lives and living with those decisions. Metaphors must be eliminable, and inference made in metaphorical terms should still hold when one speaks literally, if they are to be of use in science (Pinder, Bourgeois, 1982). According to Pinder and Bourgeois (1982), pursuing metaphors can be misleading and [url=http://www.rtnagel.com/louboutin.php]louboutin pas cher[/url] inefficient because one can never be sure whether they have caused us to ask appropriate questions, whether we have asked appropriated questions appropriately, [url=http://www.materialistanyces.com]louboutin pas cher[/url] or whether we are correctly interpreting the implications for theory of results derived from metaphor-guided theorizing.
Conclusion Gareth Morgan believes metaphors [url=http://www.achbanker.com/home.php]hollister france[/url] have its place in science; however [url=http://www.1855sacramento.com/woolrich.php]woolrich parka[/url] Pinder and Bourgeois suggest that it is both possible and desirable to minimize, if not eliminate the influence of metaphor on the practice of science (Morgan, 1983). Metaphorical language is a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled communicator (Davidson, Boswood, Martinsons, 2004). In my opinion metaphors can be used in our everyday lives and our languages to help us relate to situations better and they can also be used in the academic arena to help explain a subject matter better; however [url=http://www.vivid-host.com/barbour.htm]barbour uk outlet[/url] metaphors should have limits in the academic arena. I am not [url=http://www.achbanker.com/home.php]hollister[/url] sure how much limitation should be place on metaphors in the academic arena but I am sure there should be limits.

References Davidson, R. M., Boswood, T. S., Martinsons, M. G. (2004). Metaphors to communicate strategic change. Academy of Management Proceedings, pB1, 1-6. Morgan, G. (1980). Paradigms, metaphors, and puzzle solving in organization theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 25 (4), 605-622. Morgan, G. (1983). More on metaphors: Why we cannot control tropes in administrative science. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28 (4), 601-607. Morgan, G., Smircich, L. (1980). The case for qualitative research. The Academy of Management Review, 5 (4), 491-500. Pinder, C. C., Bourgeois, V. W. (1982). Controlling tropes in administrative science. Administratively [url=http://www.mansmanifesto.com]doudoune moncler[/url] Science Quarterly, 27 (4), 641-652.

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