The Role of Metaphorical Thinking in the Creativity of Scientific Discourse

This article critically reviews the extant literature on scientific creativity and metaphorical thinking. Metaphorical thinking is based on a conceptual transfer of relationships or mapping, from a well-known source domain to a poorly known target domain, which could result in creative outcomes in s...

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Main Author: Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-José (author)
Other Authors: Santos, Manuela Romo (author), Jiménez, Juan Jiménez (author)
Format: article
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/3587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2013.843316
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10400419.2013.843316
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