nader nezam tehrani is one of the contemporary poets whose poetries have been recently published. his poems involve various subjects and concepts such as quran and hadith which can be seen implicitly in his works by the aid of allusions and adaptations. humanism is another concept used in his works and has been utilized in his politic sonnets; the nature and the dreams are the main characterist...

The aim of this paper is to show a language-independent process of creating a new semantic relation between adjectives and nouns in wordnets. The existence of such a relation is expected to improve the detection of figurative language and sentiment analysis (SA). The proposed method uses an annotated corpus to explore the semantic knowledge contained in linguistic constructs performing as the r...

Based on twelve in-depth interviews at a battered women’s support center in Colima, Mexico in 1996, the following paper is an analysis of the figurative language used by battered women at different points of group therapy. This research compares the type of metaphors and similes used by participants at the beginning of the therapeutic process with those used by participants at the end of the sa...

The article aims to find the type of language style and meanings implied in advertisement. data were taken from advertisements Now! Bali magazine was published May 2018 June 2018. They analyzed using descriptive qualitative method theory (Wells, 2009) meaning (Keraf, 2006). result show that there are seven types applied them including similes, personification, metonymy, alliteration, assonance,...

The paper is concerned with the occurrence and the functions of nouns referring to animals in the context of similes and metaphors implementing the metaphoric scheme "Human is an Animal". These phraseological units are the result of repressing the boundary percepts lying between a Human and a Non-Human. The data (5500 entries) is excerpted from English, German, Czech, and Russian phraseological...

An effective speaker can use metaphor to communicate a wealth of propositions and affective attitudes with a single juxtaposition of ideas [12,8,6,10,7,3,15]. But as such, an effective metaphor requires effective communication, which in turn requires that the speaker has a clear idea of the content to be communicated, and an equally clear understanding of which conceptual vehicles best communic...

Figurative language is a form of communication that creates memorable impact on the listener through certain context. To create meaningful impacts in communication, people use figurative songs. This paper aimed to explore used ‘Tropico’ video, which consists three songs, namely “Body Electric,” “Gods and Monsters,” “Bel Air” examine contextual meanings The data were collected from lyrics analyz...