Abstract This special issue explores the use of metaphor in education from a multilingual perspective two Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden. In this introduction, we include brief overview earlier research domain identify common factors noteworthy to discuss relation context, for instance, notion creativity speaker legitimacy second language context. The includes six articles comprising...

Metaphor and analogy are cognitive tools which, in serving specific communicative goals and descriptive needs, are subject to a host of pragmatic pressures. Knowing that these pressures will shape the interpretation of a given metaphor, an effective communicator will exploit them to structure the conceptual content of the metaphor in such a way as to maximise its perceived aptness and argumenta...

In this paper we propose a new role for the agent metaphor in the definition of the organizational structure of multiagent systems. The agent metaphor is extended to consider as agents also social entities like organizations, groups and normative systems, so that mental attitudes can be attributed to them beliefs, desires and goals and also an autonomous and proactive behavior. We show how the ...

The met* method distinguishes selected examples of metonymy from metaphor and from literalness and anomaly in short English sentences. In the met* method, literalness is distinguished because it satisfies contextual constraints that the nonliteral others all violate. Metonymy is discriminated from metaphor and anomaly in a way that [1] supports Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) view that in metonymy ...

In a first part, I defend that formal semantics can be used as a guide to ontological commitment. Thus, if one endorses an ontological view O and wants to interpret a formal language L , a thorough understanding of the relation between semantics and ontologywill help us to construct a semantics for L in such away that its ontological commitment will be in perfect accordance with O . Basically, ...