This article proposes a new method of analyzing metaphorical expressions from a linguistic perspective. By comparing a metaphorical text and its unmetaphorized version, we suggest that a small set of lexical differences can lead to totally different interpretations. The proposed method captures this phenomenon by 1) describing how phrases in a text link to situational concepts and 2) representi...

Mixed metaphors have been neglected in recent metaphor research. This paper suggests that such neglect is short-sighted. Though mixing is a more complex phenomenon than straight metaphors, the same kinds of reasoning and knowledge structures are required. This paper provides an analysis of both parallel and serial mixed metaphors within the framework of an AI system which is already capable of ...

Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowled...

This article explores the relationship between metaphorical languages, body, and culture, and suggests that such an analysis can reveal a great deal about the meaning and experience of pain in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It uses concepts within embodied cognition to speculate on how historians can write a history of sensation. Bodies are actively eng...

According to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. This article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...

The article comprehensively analyzes that the worldview of Kazakhs, ideals and values Great Steppe are closely related to development country's history, as well role place folk wisdom in formation modern worldview. author believes historical lessons traditions ancestors key revival independent national consciousness.

We demonstrate one aspect of an affectextraction system for use in intelligent conversational agents. This aspect performs a degree of affective interpretation of some types of metaphorical utterance.