Despite their apparent arbitrary nature, numerous figurative idioms can in fact be taught and learned in an insightful way, as opposed to random and blind memorisation. Controlled experiments in recent years have shown, for example, that learners’ recall of L2 figurative idioms is facilitated by the explicit use of imagery in the presentation stage. This imagery technique can only be fruitful t...

English. In the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the interest in figurative language is enhanced, especially in the last few years, thanks to the amount of linguistic data provided by web and social networks. Figurative language provides a non-literary sense to the words, thus the utterances require several interpretations disclosing the play of signification. In order to individuat...

This study is an attempt to make a comparative between Arabic and English regarding color idioms. It tends comparison by shedding light on similarities Color Eighteen idioms have been chosen; ten from nine Arabic. Each idiom has analyzed literally (dictionary meaning) non-literally (figurative meaning). The analysis displayed that both languages share some common connotations literal meanings f...

Figurative language is part of our everyday life where meaning communicated indirectly. Metaphor among the major figurative devices that are commonly encountered in interactions. This study investigates use metaphors employed to conceptualize abstract concepts, namely anger both English and Arabic. For this purpose, a corpus metaphorical expressions denoting languages was utilized. These were c...

Although the left hemisphere is critical for language, clinical, behavioral, and neuroimaging research suggest that the right hemisphere also contributes to language comprehension. In particular, research has suggested that figurative language may be one type of language that preferentially engages right hemisphere regions. However, there is disagreement about whether these regions within the r...

The aim of the present paper is to provide insight into the issue of idiom comprehension in patients who are in the process of recovery from the syndrome of aphasia. Research in figurative language comprehension has seen a robust development in the recent decades. However, it has not been until quite recently that psycholinguists began to delve into the aspect of metaphorical language comprehen...

This paper is referred to the experiences run at Iuav since 2004 in the framework of the EU-FSE founded Courses of Collaborative Composition. In these courses we built up some work/game thought as meaning of a distance collaborative game. Rally around these games, we delivered specific knowledge and portions of technical knowledge referred to the issue of formal structure, shape grammar, and co...

The career of metaphor hypothesis suggests that processing preference is a result of conventionality whereby conventional metaphors are processed through categorization, and novel ones processed through comparison. Alternatively, the categorization model predicts that apt metaphors are processed as categorizations whether or not they are conventional. However, research has largely ignored anoth...