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Publication details [#13182]

Pauwels, Eleonore. 2013. "Communication: Mind the Metaphor". Nature 500 : 523–524. 2 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Macmillan Publishers Limited
ISBN
14764687

Abstract

Metaphorical language is helpful to bridge conceptual boundaries and explain one domain by means of another, but in technology sometimes can also lead to some problems, as shown by the spread of engineering talk in biology.