Metaphorical expressions (MEs) are abundant in political text and their translation ‎poses challenges particularly for retaining the implicit meaning. This research focuses on examining use of conceptual metaphors (CMs) ‎in Indonesian ‎political news English translation. The objectives ‎ to identify types source domain CMs explain how translated.‎ ‎Grounding mixed-methods, data were metaphorica...

This paper investigates the conceptualization of emotional release from a cognitive linguistics perspective (Cognitive Metaphor Theory). The metaphor weeping is a means of liberating contained emotions is grounded in universal embodied cognition and is reflected in linguistic expressions in English and Spanish. Lexicalization patterns which encapsulate this conceptualization i...

There is a certain metaphor that has enjoyed tremendous longevity in the evolution of ageing literature. According to this metaphor, nature goal or purpose, perpetuation species, or, alternatively, reproductive success individual. In relation goal, individual organism function, job, task, namely, breed and, some raise its brood maturity. On picture, those who cannot, can no longer, reproduce ar...

The ‘selfish gene’ is an excellent metaphor. Evolution seeks to maximise gene replication within the local reproducing group in the context of the environment. It does so by distributing genes among vehicles (organisms) which are each motivated to maximize their inclusive fitness, making the most of the genes that they have been allocated. We show how this gives rise to asexual and sexual repro...