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Does slow flow mean calmness? Metaphorical connection mechanism between emotional concepts and water flow [PDF]
IntroductionCurrent explorations of the metaphorical relationship between emotions and water have primarily focused on the literary and linguistic dimensions, where emotions are expressed through the concepts and characteristics of water.
Weirui Xiong, Fan Yang, Hongsen Shi
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An Embodied Tutoring System for Literal vs. Metaphorical Concepts [PDF]
In this paper we combine motion captured data with linguistic notions (preliminary study) in a game-like tutoring system (study 1), in order to help elementary school students to better differentiate literal from metaphorical uses of motion verbs, based ...
Marietta Sionti +3 more
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A Review of Studies Supporting Metaphorical Embodiment
This paper presents a review of studies that have provided evidence supporting metaphorical embodiment. These studies are divided into three categories of behavioral, neuroimaging, and corpus studies. After summing up the findings of these studies, it is
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +5 more
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Metaphorical COVID-19 Concepts: A Corpus Pragmatics Study
This paper investigates the way pragmatics and corpus linguistics can benefit from each other through tackling metaphorical language. The metaphors of COVID-19 and how they can be analyzed both qualitatively and quantitively in the realm of corpus ...
Shameem Alsalami
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The spatiality of sounds. From sound-source localization to musical spaces
The proliferation of and interest in concepts of musical space make the question of why composers, philosophers, and musicologists have used spatial concepts for music – which is typically considered a temporal and ephemeral art form – a relevant issue ...
Nicola Di Stefano
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Shared mental representations underlie metaphorical sound concepts
Communication between sound and music experts is based on the shared understanding of a metaphorical vocabulary derived from other sensory modalities. Yet, the impact of sound expertise on the mental representation of these sound concepts remains blurry.
Victor Rosi +4 more
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METAPHOR IN LEGAL COMMUNICATION [PDF]
Even though metaphors might seem inappropriate to legal logical reasoning, they are quite a part of it. Although metaphor is non-literal and non-linear, nevertheless it is the essence of the modality of human thought. The way we think about law depends
Joanna Osiejewicz
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Cognitive Metaphor in the Work of L. S. Petrushevskаya
The paper dwells on functioning of cognitive metaphor in the literary texts. The metaphor in literary text is the active creative mechanism. Many researches focused on the analysis of the development of metaphorical relations, images, concepts that ...
Viktoria Vyacheslavovna Radchenko +3 more
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The Cognitive Functions of Metaphor in Sayr al Ebad Elal Maad-e-Sanai [PDF]
In Classical literature, metaphor is a kind of deviation from the normal language, whose main role is glory and speech, so that it can be removed from ordinary language.
Maryam Karimi +2 more
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One Class of Predicates Reflecting Conceptualization of Time as a Resource
The research presented in the article was carried out within the framework of the conceptual and metaphorical theory of J. Lakoff and M. Johnson. One of the conceptual metaphors related to the conceptual metaphors of European culture is the metaphor TIME
E. R. Ioanesyan
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