Metaphors are fundamental to creative thought and expression. Newly coined metaphors regularly infiltrate our collective vocabulary and gradually become familiar, but it is unclear how this shift from novel to conventionalized meaning happens in the brain. We investigated the neural career of metaphors in a functional magnetic resonance imaging study using extensively normed new metaphors and s...

Research and practice within interaction design are often based on the assumption that computer interfaces are understood through metaphorical reasoning, in that they communicate abstract information by depicting) a concrete object or situation from which the abstractions can be inferred. Within hypertext systems, metaphors are used to assist in navigating, or locating information, by providing...

This study aims to describe the form of repetition and metaphors Siraman Sedudo ritual mantra connection with Javanese cultural imagery. Provision data is done through interviews, as well observations during procession. In an effort expose metaphors, this uses analysis Jakobson's poetic approach metaphorical Ullmann's Semantic view. The findings are (1) that occurs in three layers language name...

Metaphors conceptualizing emotions (Kövecses 1986, 1988, 1990, 1995, 2000) represent a well researched area in the framework of a cognitive theory of metaphor (Lakoff & Johnson 1980, 1999). The present paper investigates from an onomasiological (Jäkel 1997, 2003) point of view metaphors in the target domains of ANGER, LOVE and SADNESS. The study is based on an English corpus of psychology guide...

The nature of putative semantic anomalies in schizophrenia is controversial. Metaphor interpretation and use provide a useful methodology with which to probe semantics since metaphors are critical in reasoning processes and in how conceptual knowledge is organized. The first study examined free speech for figurative language. The second study explored whether emotional versus non-emotional meta...

This is a semantic pilot study which concentrates on how people in Taiwan process the temporal metaphors, ego-moving metaphor and time-moving metaphor. Motivated by the research of Gentner, Imai, and Boroditsky (2002) in which the English native speakers comprehend ego-moving metaphors faster than time-moving metaphors, the present study attempts to reexamine whether the faster reaction to ego-...

Metaphor is the psychological behavior, linguistic behavior and cultural of perceiving, experiencing, imagining, understanding talking about such things under hint other things. can make vivid tangible also profound abstract truth be expressed more simply concretely. In daily life, sometimes words not understood according to their literal meaning, but need combined with people's perception obje...

studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. most textbooks in esl/efl avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. this article reports a study conducted at the islamic azad univ...

This study aims to investigate the Queen Elizabeth death metaphors in BBC and The Guardian. As an influential person, of plays a significant role British public event. Then, it is essential research how are built two famous online news. corpus-based study, source data obtained from news publishing about queen's death. collected approximately one month after consisted 449.573-word tokens, 519.77...

Metaphors in idioms are universal in languages. The progression from conceptual meaning to metaphorical meaning is a cognitive activity of mapping from one thing to another. This paper, based on the analysis of 2,347 metaphorical idioms, their linguistic features, grammatical structures, grammatical functions, and semantic categories, tries to identify categories of metaphorical idioms. Most of...