trope, the use of words in a non-literal sense, is among the topics found in the language and literature of all nations. however, all methods of using words considered as tropes in a language, are not necessarily regarded as such in another language and literature; and occasionally there are similarities and differences among known tropes. in german language and literature 10 types of tropes ar...

Metonymic location names refer to other, related entities and possess a meaning different from the literal, geographic sense. Metonymic names are to be treated differently to improve performance of geographic information retrieval (GIR). This paper presents a method for disambiguating location names in textual information to distinguish literal and metonymic senses, based on shallow features. T...

In a 2017 landmark reform, Saudi authorities decided to lift the ban on women driving in this conservative society. tribute women’s newly-gained freedom drive, major automakers turned Twitter launch creative femvertising campaigns that vividly articulate female empowering motto ‘driving is feminine’. Building eloquence of visual rhetoric, which combines communicative force figurative language w...

This paper describes the use of a system of semantic rules to generate noun compounds, vague or polyse-mous words, and cases of metonymy. The rules are bi-directional and are used by the understanding system to interpret the same constructions.

This article explores our understanding of visual imagery through an analysis Foucault’s examination Magritte’s famous painting Les deux Mystères. Foucault details how the interplay between word and image are firstly perceived then understood by viewer. text, serves to illuminate hopefully clarify often ambiguous relationship whilst at same time demonstrate that vary ambiguity is revelled in th...