The conventionalization of figurative comparisons is one source of lexical evolution. For example, anchor once only meant a device for mooring a ship, but may now be used to describe any source of stability or confidence. Our goal is to understand this process. Following the Career of Metaphor framework, figurative mappings are interpreted through a structure-mapping process, rendering common s...

Aptness is an umbrella term that covers a multitude of issues in the interpretation and generation of creative metaphor. In this paper we concentrate on one of these issues – the notion of lexical systematicity – and explore its role in ascertaining the coherence of creative metaphor relative to the structure of the target concept being described. We argue that all else being equal, the most ap...

Aptness is an umbrella term that covers a multitude of issues in the interpretation and generation of creative metaphor. In this paper we concentrate on one of these issues — the notion of lexical systematicity — and explore its role in ascertaining the coherence of creative metaphor relative to the structure of the target concept being described. We argue that all else being equal, the most ap...

Abstract There are many important connections between epistemic justification and moral justification. A recent example of such is offered by Sosa’s AAA model for the normative evaluation performances. In order to count as knowledge, a belief has be Accurate in attaining truth, subject Adroit or competent task, Apt sense that accuracy manifest adroitness subject. addition, full knowledge would ...

What makes some metaphors easier to understand than others? Theoretical accounts of metaphor processing appeal to dimensions like conventionality and aptness to explain variability in metaphor comprehensibility. In a typical experiment, one group of naive participants rates a set of metaphoric sentences along these dimensions, while another is timed reading the same sentences. Then, the ratings...

A m yriad of resources can be found on the Web to­ day, and finding (topically) relevant resources for a given inform ation need is a daunting task. Even if relevant resources can be found, they m ay not be apt for the searcher in a given context: some prop­ erties of the resource m ay be "w rong" for his cur­ rent context. Such issues can often be resolved by m eans of transformations. In this...