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Descriptions of pain, metaphor and embodied simulation. [PDF]
The variety of sensations conveyed by the English word pain tend to be described via expressions that refer to potential causes of bodily damage (e.g., stabbing, burning). Such expressions are used metaphorically when they convey pain experiences that do
Elena Semino, Semino, Elena
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Contemporary theory of metaphor highlights its cognitive nature as opposed to traditional view of metaphor as rather a trope. We address the status and significance of conceptual metaphors in English banking terminology.
S. Y. Spirchagov
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Kognitywne modele metafory wizualnej: teoria, metodologia, analizy
COGNITIVE MODELS OF VISUAL METAPHOR: THEORY, METHODOLOGY, ANALYSES The aim of the article is to present cognitive studies on visual metaphor: selected theories, methods and analyses.
Grzegorz Kowalski
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Theories of Metaphor Revised. Against a Cognitive Theory of Metaphor: An Apology for Classical Metaphor [PDF]
Research that deals with metaphors and linguistic imagery has increased in the last thirty years. However, studies that question existing theories of metaphor from a comparative perspective are less common. The reason for the present theoretical sketch was the metaphorical model of conceptualism, alias the cognitive theory of metaphor: at least with ...
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Metaphoric Confinement of Information
The aim of the paper is to determine how metaphors tackle the probable nature of information and uncertainty in the structure of the communication process.
Hetmański Marek
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Data, problems, heuristics and results in cognitive metaphor research
Cognitive metaphor research is characterised by the diversity of rival theories. Starting from this observation, the paper focuses on the problem of how the unity and diversity of cognitive theories of metaphor can be accounted for. The first part of the
Kertész, András +2 more
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The article deals with the directions of the concept Gladit' (Stroke) metaphorisation in Russian that is presented in lexical and phraseological units with the initial motivating semantics of tactility.
Elena Yurina, Elena Shlotgauer
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Kövecses, Zoltán. Metaphor in culture: universality and variation
Zoltán Kövecses is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University. He is also the author of Language, Mind and Culture: A practical introduction (2006), Metaphor and Emotion (2002) and Metaphor: A Practical ...
Solange Teixeira Diniz Faraco
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A Cognitive -Semantic Study of Love Metaphor in Mawlawi Poems
This study is entitled "A Cognitive Semantic Study of Love Metaphor in Mawlawi Poems". It is an attempt to construe the semantic aspects of Mawlawi's poetic texts in light of the cognitive semantic approach. The study, through a linguistic and cognitive
Karzan Abdullah Jezhny
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Abstract A recent debate has emerged between Caspar et al. (2024) and Herculano‐Houzel (2023) on inferring extinct dinosaur cognition by estimating brain neuron counts. While thought‐provoking, the discussion largely overlooks the function of cognition, as well as partly neglects the difficulties involved in estimating neuron numbers, which according ...
Thomas Rejsenhus Jensen +7 more
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