This paper aims at demonstrating that the cognitive mechanisms underlying certain tropes (e.g. metaphor or metonymy) may assume variable degrees of conventionalisation, thereby giving rise to a range of phenomena along either side of the semantics/ pragmatics distinction. Examining specifically cases of metonymy, I propose a pragmatic account of creative, one-off metonymic expressions using the...

Recent event related brain potential (ERP) results show that figurative interpretations of proverbial phrases (e.g., lightning never strikes the same place twice) elicit sustained slow cortical potentials that are more negative over the front of the head than for literal interpretations of the same phrases (Ferretti, Schwint, & Katz, under review). We extend this research by examining the influ...

Automatic detection of figurative language is a challenging task in computational linguistics. Recognising both literal and figurative meaning is not trivial for a machine and in some cases it is hard even for humans. For this reason novel and accurate systems able to recognise figurative languages are necessary. We present in this paper a novel computational model capable to detect sarcasm in ...

Musik merupakan salah satu cara manusia untuk menyampaikan sebuah ekspresi maupun pesan nasehat. Di masyarakat sendiri, lagu kerap hadir sebagai sarana pemberian nasehat disamping fungsi utamanya hiburan. Tiap tentunya mempunyai lirik yang berbeda disesuaikan dengan dan tujuan dari sang pencipta. Kerap kali kita menemukan penggunaan bahasa kiasan dalam lagu. Bahasa adalah sering digunakan oleh ...