We introduce a new PDE free boundary problem that in a singular limit admits an interesting metaphoric interpretation, describing how “water” originating from “rainfall” flows along a landscape of varying height, forming “lakes” and also “rivers” and “surface flows”, the latter described by transport equations along downhill gradient flows.

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a subject is symbolic of another unrelated object. In the present study, we examined neural patterns associated with both novel unfamiliar and conventional familiar metaphoric processing, and how these patterns are modulated by affective valence. Prior to fMRI scanning, participants received a list of word pairs (novel unfamiliar metaphors as well as co...

Metaphor is a conventional and ordinary part of language. An approach to metaphor, based on the explicit representation of knowledge about metaphors, has been developed. This approach asserts that the interpretation of conventional metaphoric language should proceed through the direct application of speci c knowledge about the metaphors in the language. midas (Metaphor Interpretation, Denotatio...

In the article, a metaphor as universal category of thinking, special cognitive analogy-based operation, and method modeling reality, is investigated on journalistic materials modern Spanish media discourse, online version newspaper EL MUNDO in particular from discursive point view. The use various types metaphors by politicians, which are part national-linguistic picture world, examined exampl...

This paper develops a formal model for metaphor and analogy built on information flow theory, formal concept analysis and conceptual graphs. Metaphor and analogy are important principles of human cognition based on representational maps. The model suggested in this paper defines metaphoric use in terms of information transfer via an information channel with respect to contextual constraints.

In this paper we propose algorithms to automatically classify sentences into metaphoric or normal usages. Our algorithms only need the WordNet and bigram counts, and does not require training. We present empirical results on a test set derived from the Master Metaphor List. We also discuss issues that make classification of metaphors a tough problem in general.

the main purpose of this study was to determine which correlate, perceived motor competence or motor skill competence, best predicts girls' physical activity behavior.a sample of 352 girls (mean age=8.7, sd=0.3 yr) participated in this study. to assess motor skill competence and perceived motor competence, each child completed the test of gross motor development-2 and physical ability sub-scale...