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1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue; Acknowledgements; Part I; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Epilogue; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book tells the story of an intellectual journey with metaphor. It questions the basis of evidence in social research, especially the 21st century fallacies surrounding it. Metaphor itself serves as the story-teller here.As the book shows, social research evidence is hidden deep inside metaphor, and is uncovered by the use of the social research method. Through research we make methodological compromises to ensure our intellectual survival. It also highlights that all truth-values are embodied, paradoxical, metaphorical, and postdisciplinary, and that ethically responsible research is poss. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Methodology.
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Social sciences -- Methodology. |
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Social sciences -- Research.
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Social sciences -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Abdullah, Muhammad Tanweer. Metaphorical imagination. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443899852 (OCoLC)964293346 |
| ISBN |
9781443855563 (electronic book) |
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1443855561 (electronic book) |
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1443899852 |
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9781443899857 |
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