Metaphor has rarely been considered an important instrument in the study of specific-purpose texts, since it is traditionally linked with resources of a poetic nature. In addition to this, the lexicon of metaphor was deemed to be of little relevance to the student, as it is not specific to the area of study. However, studies are beginning to highlight the relevance of figurative language so as ...

This paper describes an infrastructure that has been designed to deal with corpus-based variations that do not fall within the primary, physical variation of action verbs. We have first established three main categories of secondary variation--metaphor, metonymy and idiom--and criteria for creating types within these categories for each verb. The criteria rely heavily on the images that compose...

In this paper, we argue that the metaphor form of a comparison (i.e., a topic-vehicle pair) is preferred over, and more comprehensible than, the simile form when the interpretive diversity for that comparison is high. Interpretive diversity refers to the richness of the figurative meaning of a comparison; it is high to the extent that more features or properties are related to the figurative me...

The research title is An Analysis of Metaphor In Ratatouille’s Movie: Semantic Approach. Semantics generally designed as the study meaning in semantics there a figurative language that compares and exaggrate word metaphor part language. an understanding experience one kind thing terms another, conceptual classified three namely: structural metaphor, orientational ontological metaphor. object th...

A central question in metaphor research is how metaphors establish mappings between concepts from different domains. The authors propose an evolutionary path based on structure-mapping theory. This hypothesis--the career of metaphor--postulates a shift in mode of mapping from comparison to categorization as metaphors are conventionalized. Moreover, as demonstrated by 3 experiments, this process...

This article addresses how to enhance metaphor and metonymy comprehension in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD), who are known to have difficulties with figurative language. After considering some major issues on typical development and in HF-ASD, and some studies on treatment in this specific domain, the authors describe an intervention methodology that can be use...

The research purpose is examining the poems in Turkish textbooks for 1st–8th grade terms of figurative language usage. data source used this qualitative study was gathered from which published 2015–2016. were collected through document analysis and analysed via content analysis. It revealed by that mostly simile least metonyms metaphors have been 1st–4th-grade poems. In included 5th–6th-grade c...

In this paper, we explore the relationship between metaphor and polysemy . We begin by discussing how novel metaphoric mappings can create new word meanings in the form of domain-general representations. Turning next to consider the implications of this view for the on-line comprehension of figurative language, we suggest that there is a shift from comparison processing to categorization proces...

This study is entitled Figurative Language Used In The Greatest Showman Soundtrack Lyrics.This aims to analyze figurative language or in four songs which are the soundtrack of film Showman, titled, Never Enough, Is Me, and A million Dream.The benefits this research divided into two, namely: theoretically help become a reference for other researchers, second students, namely increase students' u...

Defining the specific role of the factors that affect metaphor processing is a fundamental step for fully understanding figurative language comprehension, either in discourse and conversation or in reading poems and novels. This study extends the currently available materials on everyday metaphorical expressions by providing the first dataset of metaphors extracted from literary texts and score...