The goal of this paper is to examine the neural aspect of metaphor. The neural theory of language stems from the cognitive linguistic research and is an effort to comprehend the way neural circuits affect and shape language and thought. Within this framework it is suggested that metaphor serves as the medium through which cultural, abstract and theoretical concepts are acquired. On the other ha...

If metaphor is to be viewed as a fundamental cognitive agency, as recent work suggests, what ramifications does this view have for a model of semantic memory? This paper argues that if various signature phenomena of metaphor are to be given adequate computational treatment, a parallel adaptive (learning) network model of memory is required. Such a model, the Sapper framework, is described; Sapp...

If metaphor is to be viewed as a fundamental cognitive agency, as recent work suggests, what ramifications does this view have for a model of semantic memory? This paper presents a computational treatment of metaphor comprehension, named Sapper (see Veale & Keane. 1993, 1994; Veale et al. 1995, 1996), which is built upon a parallel, adaptive, and learning network model of semantic memory. Sappe...

This paper advocates a microfeature based approach towards developing computationalmodels for metaphor interpretation. It is argued that the existing models based on semantic networks and mappings of complex symbolic structures are insu cient and inappropriate for modeling metaphors. A connectionist model of metaphor interpretation based on microfeatures is presented, which tries to take into a...

If metaphor is to be viewed as a fundamental cognitive agency, as recent work suggests, what ramifications does this view have for a model of semantic memory? This paper argues that if various signature phenomena of metaphor are to be given adequate computational treatment, a parallel adaptive (learning) network model of memory is required. Such a model, the Sapper framework, is described; Sapp...

There exist a broad class of metaphorical utterances that, although widely reported, have received little detailed examination. These metaphors are not totally novel; instead, the vehicles contain novel extensions to familiar conceptual metaphors. That is, they (a) rest on a conceptual metaphor that is familiar to the understander but (b) transcend the list of mappings in the conceptual metapho...

This study aims to investigate the Queen Elizabeth death metaphors in BBC and The Guardian. As an influential person, of plays a significant role British public event. Then, it is essential research how are built two famous online news. corpus-based study, source data obtained from news publishing about queen's death. collected approximately one month after consisted 449.573-word tokens, 519.77...

This study’s primary purpose is to account for the unstated interpretation of Kundera’s novel Life Is Elsewhere (1973) from a cognitive stylistic perspective. His style seems at first plain, but his philosophical and psychological treatment subjects significantly necessary than narratological world he creates. The identification conceptual metaphors both mega micro-metaphors constitute core ele...