In this paper, Conceptual Metaphor Theory and cognitive linguistic theories of metonymy and frame semantics are used to explore metaphors for the self in an analysis of Japanese grammar and lexicon. The analysis takes an embodied cognition stance on language-independent phenomena that happen to have (but are not isolated to) surface linguistic indexes. In so doing, this work aims to shed light ...

This study aimed to find out the forms of euphemism used in online CNN Indonesia news. The data were taken from 20 random articles 2021. In this study, theory was introduced by Werren (1992). qualitative research. result found 69 euphemism. There 12 forms, namely: compounding, derivation, acronym, slang, abbreviation, loan word, particularization, implication, metaphor, metonymy, litotes, hyper...

Why is Artificial Intelligence concerned with metaphor, and what special contributions can AI offer to metaphor research? This chapter will indicate why AI needs to study metaphor and will outline what AI has been contributing to the illumination of metaphor, whether it is processed by artefacts or by the human mind. Specific contributions AI research on metaphor that one can already point to, ...

Various cognitive linguistic studies (e.g., Riad & Vaara, 2011; Riad, 2019; cf. Feng, 2017) indicate that the conceptual metonymy national building for institutional leadership or a population can emotively frame activities and facilitate creation of stereotypes political attitudes. The article reconsiders this assessment by evaluating multimodal corpus editorial cartoons depict parliamenta...

Metaphors and other tropes are commonly thought to reflect asymmetries in concreteness, with concrete sources being used talk about relatively more abstract targets. Similarly, originating senses diachronic semantic change have often been argued be than extended senses. In this paper, we use a dataset of cross-linguistically attested changes empirically test the idea that figurative language pr...

Abstract Czech is a flective Slavic language that traditionally expresses gender in female surnames by suffixation. The formation of citizens regulated law. and the related law repeatedly attract attention non-linguists are discussed public arena. study analyses metaphors metonymies used these discussions involving non-linguists. data for analysis collected from discourse, especially newspapers...

Based on the medieval Vietnamese literary works from beginning of 10th century to end 19th century, article has examined 494 linguistic expressions about male images, which 328 belong metaphor and 166 metonymy. that, we obtain following results: (1) Set up seven source domains three target domains; (2) determine conditions for selecting things in domain; (3) explain factors affecting selection ...

Concern for global warming, climate change and pollution has grown in recent years, with countries across the world facing natural disasters on unprecedented scales. The communication of environmental protection is therefore a necessary area enquiry, especially from Conceptual Metaphor Theory perspective. present article explores (1) how themes change, activism are conceptualized corpus 51 nonc...