This paper aims to present conceptual metaphors employed discuss psychedelics in texts published online by organizations popularizing knowledge about psychedelic substances. The foundation of this investigation comprises Cognitive Grammar, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and Corpus Linguistics. A corpus 160 on medical research, mental health, therapy 2020 is built enable quantitative qualitative an...

Drawing on conceptual metaphor theory, I investigated the school transition experience of an English as a foreign language (EFL) learner. In this narrative case study, participant’s emotion labor was followed throughout his first semester at high in Turkey. Exploring journals, metaphors, and interviews, examined dynamic emotional states. The findings revealed that may entail inhibiting for fres...

Violence consists of a pattern of coercive behaviors used by a competent adult or adolescent to establish and maintain power and control over another competent adult or adolescent. These behaviors, which can occur alone or in combination, sporadically or continually, include physical violence, psychological abuse, talking, and nonconsensual sexual behavior. Research indicates that different typ...

What is the form of mental representation? One very influential contemporary answer to this question starts from the assumption that the brain functions like a Turing machine. This assumption, which is basically a metaphor, provides the foundation for much theoretical speculation in cognitive science and related fields. According to one version of the computer metaphor, the atoms of mental repr...

KEYWORDS: metaphor-understanding algorithms metaphor of mind reasoning about agents' mental states personiication metaphor uncertain reasoning ABSTRACT: An implemented reasoning called ATT-Meta is sketched. It performs a type of metaphor-based reasoning. Although it relies on built-in knowledge of speciic metaphors, where a metaphor is a conceptual view of ones topic as another, it is very exib...

Starting from views on traditional metaphor and mental/conceptual model theory this paper describes the possible influence of the »evolutionary epistemology« (EE) theory to the HCI theory base. This theory is particularly important to HCI especially because of its culture independence on the proposed basis and its coverage of unconscious processes. The first had been a long struggle and still i...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been playing an important role in constructing propagating China’s international image. This study explores BRI-themed pictorial news reports featured with the coexistence of text pictures from China Daily BBC to analyze BRI image construction. Our discussion centers on two perspectives multimodal conceptual metaphors, namely representational meaning, inte...

This study investigates whether understanding up/down metaphors as well as semantically homologous literal sentences activates embodied representations online. Participants read orientational literal sentences (e.g., she climbed up the hill), metaphors (e.g., she climbed up in the company), and abstract sentences with similar meaning to the metaphors (e.g., she succeeded in the company). In Exp...

Strategic alignment is sometimes used to provide the conceptual underpinnings of causal analyses of business performance, yet our understanding of the notion suffers, in large measure, from imprecise and unusable definitions that rely on vague geometric metaphors. This paper builds on and improves a conceptual framework for strategic alignment (Wang and Ghose, 2006). It applies the framework to...