Introduction. Most of the existing neurophysiological literature on metaphors comprehension focuses on the processing conventional metaphors (Coulson & Van Petten 2002) or generic novel metaphors (Tartter et al. 2002, Lai et al. 2009). Except for a few studies including poetic metaphors in Hebrew (Arzouan et al. 2007, Faust & Mashal 2007), no extensive neurophysiological investigation on the pr...

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the mental association and the innovation of lingual and artistic relations on two syntagmatic and paradigmatic axis results in collocation in a literary speech. in the ordinary and formal language collocation is the necessary condition for a speech to be considered meaningful and coherent, but in literary language, there is a variety of aesthetic creativities and innovations that leads to the ...

in the field of critical literature, siavash kasraie and ahmad matar's poems can be comparatively analyzed in terms of their social background, poetic content and linguistic strategies. applying a.van dijk’s socio–cognitive model of discourses studies, this paper uses critical discourse analysis to identify discourses formed in the works of the poets and analyzes the ideologies and discourse-or...