What is the form of mental representation? One very influential contemporary answer to this question starts from the assumption that the brain functions like a Turing machine. This assumption, which is basically a metaphor, provides the foundation for much theoretical speculation in cognitive science and related fields. According to one version of the computer metaphor, the atoms of mental repr...

In the linguistic domain, conceptual metaphors have been shown to structure grammar, the lexicon, and abstract reasoning. Much recent research on conceptual metaphor comes from corpus examination, which is increasingly focused on developing quantificational tools to reveal cooccurrence patterns indicative of source and target domain associations. Some mappings between source and target are tran...

Starting from views on traditional metaphor and mental/conceptual model theory this paper describes the possible influence of the »evolutionary epistemology« (EE) theory to the HCI theory base. This theory is particularly important to HCI especially because of its culture independence on the proposed basis and its coverage of unconscious processes. The first had been a long struggle and still i...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Although some progress has been made in the area of metaphor understanding, little has been made in metaphor generation. Current solutions rely upon a rather direct encoding of alternatives. There is no computational theory that can account for metaphor generation from basic principles. Although generating all types of metaphors from basic principles is very difficult,...

In this paper, we combine analytical tools of conceptual metaphor theory with the affordances corpus-based linguistics and quantitative analysis to investigate translation synesthetic metaphors found in Donna Tartt’s novels into Ukrainian. A is addressed as a linguistic expression representing sensation one modality terms another. We claim that choice procedure – retention, removal, omission, m...

In this paper, we propose a formal representation of the meaning of sentences involving conceptual metaphors in the context of the research line of Computing with Words and Perceptions. Conceptual metaphors are mappings between conceptual domains that are common in everyday natural language usage. They are not just a matter of lexico-grammar stratum but of representation and processing in the s...

Our most fundamental concepts of musical motion and space, used by laypeople an d music theorists alike, are defined by conceptual metaphors that are based on our experience of physical motion. We analyze the 3 most important metaphors of musical motion : the "MOVING MUSIC." metaphor, the "MUSICAL LANDSCAPE" metaphor, and the "MOVING FORCE" metaphor. We show how each metaphor is grounded in a p...

Embodied cognition holds that abstract concepts are grounded in perceptual-motor simulations. If a given embodied metaphor maps onto a spatial representation, then thinking of that concept should bias the allocation of attention. In this study, we used positive and negative self-esteem words to examine two properties of conceptual cueing. First, we tested the orientation-specificity hypothesis,...

The theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980a, 1980b) and Lakoff (1993) involves a mapping of conceptual structure from one semantic domain to another. We investigate properties of these conceptual domain mappings by comparing them to morphological derivational relations. Schematicity and productivity are properties that Bybee (1985) and Langacker (1987) propose for characterizin...