This study explores the metaphoric comprehension of normal Persian-speaking children, as well as theories of cognitive development and cultural and social impacts. The researchers discuss the improvement of the understanding of ontological conceptual metaphors through age growth and cognitive development, and how it helps to expand children’s thoughts and knowledge of the world. In this study, ...

Despite their age and prevalence, abstract games are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of games and meaning. In this paper I offer experiential metaphors as a critical method applicable to all games, particularly abstract games. To do this I introduce structural metaphors, image schemata and experiential gestalts to explain how experiential metaphors function. I then compare this met...

This study investigates the habitual expressions of metaphors in language and gesture and the collaboration of these two modalities in conveying metaphors. This study examined 247 metaphoric expressions in Mandarin conversations. The data includes 110 (44.5%) metaphors being conveyed concurrently by speech and gesture as well as 137 (55.5%) metaphors being conveyed in gesture exclusively. Resul...

On travel-related websites interface metaphors can help travelers plan their trips and make the trip planning process more entertaining and engaging. This study first conceptualizes interface metaphors on travel-related websites by providing a taxonomic analysis based on their functional roles. It then examines the extent to which interface metaphors influence users’ perceptions of website usab...

Metaphors are pervasive in human language and developing methods to recognize and deal with metaphors is an indispensable task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper proposes an unsupervised method to recognize metaphors from real texts. Firstly, source domain candidates are determined based on automatically acquired selectional preferences. And then metaphors are recognized with the ...

This article examines some of the most important metaphors and analogies that epistemologists have used to discuss the structure and validity of knowledge. After reviewing foundational, coherentist, and other metaphors for knowledge, we discuss the metaphilosophical significance of the prevalence of such metaphors. We argue that they support a view of philosophy as akin to science rather than p...

Primary metaphors are basic mental representations that arise from repeatedly experiencing the co-occurrence of physical properties and abstract judgements. At the example of ethnographic studies several spatial/topological primary metaphors are reviewed and their usefulness for designing ubicomp systems is discussed along with some caveats that concern the application of these metaphors to pre...

Roles of variables, which describe stereotypic usages of variables, can be exploited to facilitate teaching introductory programming. This paper describes the evaluation of visual metaphors for roles used in a role-based program animator. The evaluation is based on several criteria: properties of the images, metaphor recognition and grading, and effects on learning. The study demonstrates that ...

This article demonstrates the practical applications of metaphors in diagnosing problems and developing new theories in organizational development. Metaphors are defined as imagery tools that provide insight to complex issues, thus advancing the study of organizational change. They are liberating in orientation and provide fresh perspectives to both new and existing phenomenon. Metaphors benefi...