This paper proposes a corpora-based approach in comparing the Mapping Principles for economy metaphors in English and Chinese. The Mapping Principles are validated using an upper ontology (SUMO). This research extends on the work of Ahrens, Chung and Huang (2003) by examining the ‘economy’ metaphors in Chinese and English. In Ahrens, Chung and Huang (2003), they proposed to delimit the Mapping ...

Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) posits that the metaphorical ways in which we talk about abstract concepts are indicative of the ways in which we think about those concepts. In a recent test of this hypothesis, Casasanto (2007) considered the metaphor SIMILARITY IS PROXIMITY. He found evidence to suggest that the effect of physical proximity on similarity ratings differs dep...

This study aimed to identify the types of figurative language used in poems about COVID-19 and explain messages these poems. research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative methods. The data were taken from five on Internet. analyzed Leech’s theory Nurgiyantoro’s meanings language. There eight found poems: metaphor (14.5 %), personification (13.3 simile (16.9%), hyperbole (13.3%), irony...

Motivated by the limits of EWN with respect to the treatment of metaphor and the consequences on the use of the database for WSD, we address the issue of the encoding of information on metaphors in wordnets. We assume as a starting point the theory of metaphor as a cognitive rather than a linguistic phenomenon, as proposed by [1] and [2]. According to this theory, metaphoric linguistic expressi...

The study of concepts in psychology has historically had little to say about the possible influence of metaphor on mental representation. This silence is not terribly surprising given the long-standing view that metaphor is an ornamental, even deviant, form of language bearing no relation to how people actually conceptualize of objects, individuals, events, and abstract ideas. But in the last 2...

1. introduction metaphor definition in islamic rhetoric has similarities with the theories of metaphor in the west. these similarities do not mean that the traditional definition still works so that rethinking of definition and providing new definitions is not necessary anymore. such an approach certainly will not be promising. the result of these efforts will enclose metaphor in the realm of r...

Advertisement is the major way of promoting sales. To achieve this aim, the AD language gets used to reinforce the effect with the help of rhetoric devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, pun, rhyme, etc. In term of the difference between English and Chinese, some translation methods including Literal Translantion, Free Translation and Modulation could be skillfully used during the t...