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Are primary conceptual metaphors easier to understand than complex conceptual metaphors?

Benjamins Translation Library, 2011
The present behavioural study explores the cognitive processing of primary and complex conceptual metaphors during the first step of the translational process: comprehension. According to Lakoff and Johnson (1980), primary and complex conceptual metaphors are based on different conceptual architectures, a simpler one for primary conceptual ...
Antin Fougner Rydning, Christian Lachaud
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Metaphorical conceptualizations

2022
The book deals with the important shift that has been heralded in cognitive linguistics from mere universal matters to cultural and situational variation. The discussions examine cognitive and cultural linguistics’ theories in relation to the following areas of research: (i) metaphorical conceptualization; (ii) the influence of culture on metaphor ...
Schröder, Ulrike   +2 more
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Explainable Metaphor Identification Inspired by Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon but also reflects the concept projection between source and target domains in human cognition. Previous sequence tagging-based metaphor identification methods could not model the concept projection, resulting in a limitation that the outputs of these models are unexplainable in the predictions of the ...
Mengshi Ge, Rui Mao 0010, Erik Cambria
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Conceptual modeling by analogy and metaphor

Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management, 2007
Metaphor is not merely a rhetorical device, characteristic of language alone, but rather a fundamental feature of the human conceptual system. A metaphor is understood by finding an analogy mapping between two domains. This paper argues that analogy mappings facilitate conceptual modeling by allowing the designer to reinterpret fragments of familiar ...
Karin Koogan Breitman   +3 more
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Linguistic Relativity in Conceptual Metaphors

2017
Language is essential to human’s life, such as describing objects or events and sharing ideas with others. One of the most central questions in linguistics and cognitive psychology is whether language influences human cognition, which has been investigated in various domains such as color, space, and number.
Tse, CS, Huang, Y
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Conceptual Metaphor in Teaching Logic

International Conference on Computers in Education, 2019
In this paper, we discuss the concept of conceptual metaphor and its role in the teaching of logic. Starting from our experience in the teaching of logic to students in human sciences at University of West Britanny and students who take general education courses at various universities in Taiwan and from our research in the field of logic, we defend ...
Tzu-Keng Fu, Anca Christine Pascu
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