The Metaphorical Brain Long considered a peripheral topic in linguistics, metaphor is increasingly viewed as a central feature of higher cognition and abstract thought. Investigation of the neural substrate of metaphor has, similarly, become more sophisticated, involving increasingly specific suggestions about the processes involved in its comprehension. This Frontiers Research Topic brings tog...

In this theoretical paper figurative aspects of algebraic symbolism are discussed and related to the theory of image schemata, opening up for one way of understanding the development of symbol sense in mathematics. The ideas of mathematical forms (referring to spatial characteristics of mathematical formulas), and form operations, are at the core of this analysis.

Semantics is the study of meaning in language. One linguistic features that can be considered semantics figurative Short stories are oases language and literary devices used such a way they portray far deeper then words themselves do. Because story uses language, readers occasionally have trouble understanding its significance message. In this study, researchers examine Roald Dahl's short tale ...