Conventional metaphorical sentences such as She's asweetchild have been found to elicit greater amygdala activation than matched literal sentences (e.g., She's akindchild). In the present fMRI study, this finding is strengthened and extended with naturalistic stimuli involving longer passages and a range of conventional metaphors. In particular, a greater number of activation peaks (four) were ...

This report provides a measure of relatively objective evaluation of our ATT-Meta approach to conducting some of the reasoning needed in the understanding of metaphorical utterances. The approach is partially implemented in our ATT-Meta system. The approach and system are not described in detail here. The utterances of most interest in this report are map-transcending ones: that is, ones that r...

In this paper, the connection between metaphor, metonymy, blending and humour is discussed against an analysis of puns in print advertisements featuring both visual and verbal elements. The analysis is based on the theory of conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1994, 1996 etc.) and on analyses of humour within that framework made by Coulson (1996, 2001, in press), but it also draws on obs...

Although investigating the factors that influence test scores is important, a majority of stakeholders show a paucity of attention towards individual learner differences due to having large classes of L2 learners. This study sought to explore the possible effect of working memory and cognitive style on L2 learners’ metaphorical test performance. The study was conducted in 2 phases. The first ph...

This article is devoted to the study of stylistic functions metaphorical epithets in a poetic text. Many works are metaphor, which apparently occupies main place among linguistic means expressing images. However, question still not fully clarified. One laws language development manifested metaphorization words, but meaning word only context, thanks movement into new lexical environment. Accordi...