Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama [PDF]
, 2010 We report our developments on metaphor and affect sensing for several metaphorical language phenomena including affects as external entities metaphor, food metaphor, animal metaphor, size metaphor, and anger metaphor.
Barnden, John, Zhang, Li
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An Analysis of Figurative Language Elements upon an American Short Story Entitled “The Monkey’s Paw
JEES (Journal of English Educators Society), 2018 This article describes the study of semantic in a specified domain of figurative language upon a selected work of American English literature, in form of short story written by the renowned writer and author, William Wymark Jacobs, entitled as ‘The ...
Nur Muhammad Ardiansyah, Vidya Mandarani
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The development of metaphorical language comprehension in typical development and in Williams syndrome [PDF]
, 2010 The domain of figurative language comprehension was used to probe the developmental relation between language and cognition in typically developing individuals and individuals with Williams syndrome.
Annette Karmiloff-Smith +41 more
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The impact of foreign accent on irony interpretation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 In modern multi-cultural societies, conversations between foreign speakers and native listeners have become very common. These exchanges often include the use of figurative language.
Sendy Caffarra +2 more
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Linguocultural Peculiarities of German and Georgian Phraseological Units – Contrastive Analysis [PDF]
, 2019 Knowledge about the world begins with gaining knowledge about the language. Language is a part of our national culture and plays one of the main roles in its formation.
Abuseridze, A. (Anzor) +1 more
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A metaphor-metonymy continuum? Evidence from cross-field L2 set texts [PDF]
Ibérica, 2017 While the typology of metonymy has remained relatively stable in the literature, there is still ongoing discussion about metaphor varieties and their distinction from the former.
Antonio Jimenez-Munoz +1 more
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Pragmatic language disorder in Parkinson's disease and the potential effect of cognitive reserve [PDF]
, 2019 It is known that patients with Parkinson\u2019s Disease (PD) may show deficits in several areas of cognition, including speech and language abilities.
Arcara, G. +5 more
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Cognitive Metaphors of the Mind in the Canterbury Tales [PDF]
, 2014 The paper presents an analysis of a number of cognitive metaphors pertaining to the concept of mind (e.g. sanity and insanity), heart, and fire. The study has been based on the text of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Agnieszka Wawrzyniak +18 more
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Natural Language Processing JournalFigurative language detection has emerged as a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), enabling machines to comprehend non-literal expressions such as metaphor, irony, and sarcasm.
Zouheir Banou +5 more
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First and second language child speakers of Afrikaans’s knowledge of figurative language
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2008 This article reports on a study that compared the knowledge of figurative language in first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of Afrikaans, aged 8 to 10.
Van der Merwe, Kristin +1 more
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