introduction: psychological symptoms of non-cardiac chest pain (nccp) including perceptual, emotional, and behavioral problems can effect patient perception of chest pain. this study was conducted to determine the effect of metaphor therapy on mitigating depression, anxiety, stress, and pain discomfort in patients with nccp. materials and methods: this randomized, controlled, trial was conducte...

In Greek mythology, the river Styx is a river that formed the boundary between earth and the underworld or Hades, the abode of the dead. The ferryman of the river Styx was called Charon, a personification of the decision-making process between life and death. According to some versions of the myth, the river Styx had miraculous powers and could make someone immortal. Achilles was said to have b...

In Greek mythology, the river Styx is a river that formed the boundary between earth and the underworld or Hades, the abode of the dead. The ferryman of the river Styx was called Charon, a personification of the decision-making process between life and death. According to some versions of the myth, the river Styx had miraculous powers and could make someone immortal. Achilles was said to have b...

prophet mohammad (p) was at the peak of eloquence and rhetoric at the height of the comprehensively statement and spoke with every tribe in their language. to express the whole of word, we review the metaphor of prophet’s words in order to demonstrate a piece of his rhetoric and eloquence. this paper seeks to examine the art of metaphor and expressions of the holy prophet (p). our method of dis...

WAR as a vehicle and Sport Is War as a conceptual metaphor (CM) seem inadequate to account metaphorically for SPORT. To cater for an inclusive vehicle/CM, we selected WIN and LOSS lexicon from the news coverage of Brazil’s football team loss to Germany and tested them through the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Then, the data were studied through the 3 stages of metaphor research. In t...

In this paper, based on the contemporary theory of cognitive metaphor, the metaphoric functions of Jamal (Beauty) and the clusters of images related to it, namely the world, man, face, sun, mirror, etc. in Mawlavi's lyrics are explained. In theology, the motif of conceptual metaphor of Jamal is Ro'yat (vision). Finding its way into mysticism, "vision" is expressed in the metaphor of B...

Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon but also reflects the concept projection between source and target domains in human cognition. Previous sequence tagging-based metaphor identification methods could model projection, resulting limitation that outputs of these models are unexplainable predictions metaphoricity labels. In this work, we propose first explainable model, inspired by Conce...

This article focuses on PREZEIS, an internationally acclaimed participatory slum governance program in Recife, Brazil. PREZEIS was implemented 1987 and emerged out of a strong popular movement that resisted forced evictions squatter settlements under the military regime (1964–1985). To date, however, its main objectives—upgrading slums regularizing land rights—have not been achieved, executive ...

Relevance theory challenges the traditional view of context, proposes the concept of cognitive context and a new inferential model. Its explanation of metaphor from the cognitive perspective is rather different from other metaphor theories. By discussing relevance theory’s views on context and metaphor respectively, this paper, based on the researches of contemporary scholars and pragmatists on...