This poster presents a computational analysis of conceptual metaphors in a community of political blogs. Like sentiment analysis or opinion extraction, computational metaphor identification can provide an understanding of the framings or conceptualizations used in a community. This poster includes an implementation overview and results summary.

Metaphor makes our thoughts more vivid and fills our communication with richer imagery. Furthermore, according to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) of [30], metaphor also plays an important structural role in the organization and processing of conceptual knowledge. According to this account, the phenomenon of metaphor is not restricted to similarity-based extensions of meanings of individual...

It’s a good conceptual basis, and usefully provides the metaphors and explanations you’ll need to communicate this kind of management style to other managers. But it won’t give you the nitty-gritty of how to implement it. persuasive technology: using computers to change what we think and do

Our ordinary, human conceptual systems struggle daily with complex ideas and language. Indeed, the most complex thoughts often demand speci!c cognitive inventions to make their comprehension easier, and one of the most common strategies for improving comprehension is metaphor. Metaphor, of course, has a speci!c interpretation in literary studies, but, in the !eld of linguistics, its meaning is ...

In this article, I am going to explain how the most frequent metaphor types used in cognitive and neurosciences – reification and spatial metaphors, personification, and technological metaphors – are connected to theoretical problems that occur in these scientific disciplines. These theoretical problems include the idea of memory as space, which is connected with the difficulty of a realistic d...

This empirical study takes a cognitive perspective and examines the translation of metaphors in speeches by Chinese President Xi Jinping as collected first volume book The Governance China published 2014. draws upon Lakoff Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory Newmark's categories procedure for metaphors. researchers' data analysis has shown that (1) four out eight existing procedures are employ...

Teachers and students hold their own language learning beliefs about English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In the classroom, students’ teachers’ interact, which might result in either tension or opportunities for change. Considering that it be difficult to evoke some of participants’ beliefs, this study opted analyze conceptual metaphors an indirect way elicit them. Metaphors are part our though...

This article explores the role of metaphor in conceptualization economic crisis English terms sociohistorical – cognitive linguistic interface. On material mass-media discourse 19th century “long depression”, 20th Great Depression and 21st Global Economic Crisis It reveals concept historical variation defines vector its development. also develops methodology analysis proves that being а part hu...