Creative linguistic devices like metaphor, simile and analogy serve two important roles in language. The first of these is to make the unfamiliar and the strange seem more familiar and understandable (Indurkhya, 1992). For instance, one might describe a burqa (a full body covering for Muslim women) as a suit of armor, as a shield against prying eyes or, depending on one’s communication goal, as...

Aims and objectives: The study provides new insights into how bilingual speakers process semantically complex novel meanings in their native (L1) non-native language (L2). Methodology: employs an EEG method with a semantic decision task to nominal metaphors, similes, as well literal anomalous sentences presented participants’ L1 L2. Data analysis: In total, 29 of Polish who were highly proficie...

This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) their translation into English. The aims to identify most effective English translations these metaphors by sending a questionnaire 43 native speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language similes (TL) using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework classify similes. findings indicate that YA dialects us...

Novel metaphorical expressions have been understudied in traditional approaches to terminology because they normally behave as sporadic units incapable of structuring whole discourse events. To show that this is not always the case, this paper presents a case study of novel BIOECONOMICS metaphors in an academic marine biology research article (Landa 1998). They were analysed following two parad...

BACKGROUND Over 50% of older adults experience chronic pain. Poorly managed pain threatens independent functioning, limits social activities and detrimentally affects emotional wellbeing. Yet, chronic pain is not fully understood from older adults' perspectives; subsequently, pain management in later life is not necessarily based on their priorities or needs. This paper reports a qualitative ex...

Linguistic creativity is a marriage of form and content in which each works together to convey our meanings with concision, resonance and wit. Though form clearly influences and shapes our content, the most deft formal trickery cannot compensate for a lack of real insight. Before computers can be truly creative with language, we must first imbue them with the ability to formulate meanings that ...