The involvement of the sensorimotor system in language understanding has been widely demonstrated. However, the role of context in these studies has only recently started to be addressed. Though words are bearers of a semantic potential, meaning is the product of a pragmatic process. It needs to be situated in a context to be disambiguated. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that ...

Comparisons are common linguistic devices used to indicate the likeness of two things. Often, this likeness is not meant in the literal sense—for example, “I slept like a log” does not imply that logs actually sleep. In this paper we propose a computational study of figurative comparisons, or similes. Our starting point is a new large dataset of comparisons extracted from product reviews and an...

Meta-figurative is a physical aesthetic discourse that reaches beyond the beauty of ideal bodies (skeletal construction, muscles, and skins). The interpretation approaches used new criticism, according to Culler (2001), goal identify what works repress or illuminate by concealing portraying society social attitudes. encompasses exploration pertaining interchangeable position condition between t...

Figurative Language is commonly used in literary work, especially a song lyric. The also by English teachers as medium the teaching process. It makes learning proses becomes more interesting and satisfying. Besides that, contains moral message which implied lyrics can be to teach students building characters. This research aimed at finding types meaning of figurative language are Nirvana’s expl...

Abstract Figurative language is ubiquitous in English. Yet, the vast majority of NLP research focuses on literal language. Existing text representations by design rely compositionality, while figurative often non- compositional. In this paper, we study interpretation two non-compositional languages (idioms and similes). We collected datasets fictional narratives containing a expression along wi...

This paper presents a corpus of annotated motion events and their event structure. We consider motion events triggered by a set of motion evoking words and contemplate both literal and figurative interpretations of them. Figurative motion events are extracted into the same event structure but are marked as figurative in the corpus. To represent the event structure of motion, we use the FrameNet...

Abstract The study of art history has been traditionally focused on the description artistic innovations, role artists and meaning artworks. It often neglected broader reasons why certain innovations took place in places, specific times particular ways. We believe that impact institutional economic factors critical shaping evolution history, quantitative methods can be useful to improve our und...

the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

Recent studies in cognitive linguistics have demonstrated that objects are conceptualised in terms of the actions they afford, i.e., in terms of their spatial-functional meaning. Since our interactions are constrained by the structure of our body, these studies view conceptualisation as essentially embodied. In this paper we argue that an object's abstract/figurative meaning is also embodied in...

the meaning of an idiomatic expression cannot be transparently worked out from the meanings of its constituent words due to its figurative and unpredictable nature. consequently, the syntactic composition and the structural paradigm of an idiomatic expression are supposed to be the same in every context. however, this is not the case in the institutionalized second language varieties of english...