How metaphor affects grammatical coding: the Saxon genitive in computer manuals

How Grammatical Gender Affects Perspective Taking

This is the first study to examine the influence of gender-sex congruence (match or mismatch between grammatical gender markers and participant sex) on the embodied processing of first-person sentences and images with either an internal or an external perspective in a picture-sentence verification task in Bulgarian modeled on Brunye et al.’s (2009) experimental paradigm. Participants were shown...

Discourse Constraint in Computer Manuals

This paper describes the result of our analysis of computer manuals to evaluate the strength of discourse constraint, due to which morphologically identical words tend to be used in the same way in the same context. According to our analysis, more than 90% of all the content words in a single chapter of a computer manual have the same word sense. For a manual concerning a narrow domain, such as...

How the Nonextensivity Parameter Affects Energy Fluctuations

In this article, the effect of the nonextensivity parameter on the energy fluctuations of nonextensive systems is studied in two different versions of the Tsallis statistical mechanics. Once a general expression has been reported for the energy fluctuations in the second version (Tsallis work in 1988), the energy fluctuations of an ideal gas and a harmonic oscillator are studied in the second a...

Metaphor in computer science

The Dual Meaning Potential of Prepositional Grammatical Metaphor in Prose Fiction

From a Systemic Functional perspective, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) as is taken to be a chief driving force in the discourse of different genres, an important adult language machinery for ideational meanings to be semantically cross-mapped and realized through a different form in the stratum of the lexico-grammar, in order to convey changed meanings and tinker with the discursive flow and develop...