the present study tries to analyze some conceptual metaphors in the bustan, using insights from cultural linguistics. the data analyzed shows that through a cultural model, the word del, productively, embodies the mind of persian speakers via conceptualizing emotions (love, happiness, and grief), mental faculties (understanding, thinking), cultural values (munificence, truth), character traits ...

The frequent and conventional use of non{literal language has been a major stumbling block for natural language processing systems since the early machine translation e orts. Metaphor, metonymy and indirect speech acts are among the most troublesome phenomena. Recent computational e orts addressing these problems have taken an approach that emphasizes the use of systematic knowledge about non{l...

This paper takes a cognitive perspective on the semantics of Moroccan brand names, an unexplored territory so far, and analyzes role metonymy in corpus-based analysis cosmetic names. More particularly, we focus following: to shed some light metonymic operations these names (domain expansion domain reduction metonymies together with chains), determine occurrence frequency comparison metaphor, re...

Multimodal communication is found in modern discourse types, including textbooks, influencing the attitude and motivation message interpretation. The paper will explore instances of visual metonymy English textbooks for young learners (grades 1-4) approved by Ministry Science Education Republic Croatia. Metonymy qualitatively simpler than conceptual metaphor (Rundblad & Annaz, 2010), requir...