Perception has long been seen as a basis for understanding abstract concepts and experiences their linguistic encoding. Conceptual metaphor is considered cognitive link between physical sensory mental representations. The olfactory perception treated peripherical in contrast to other sense modalities. purpose of the study establish how smell conceptually structured Arabic comparison with Englis...

The current study attempted to investigate the effect of Systemic-Theoretical Instruction (STI) on English-language learners’ acquisition of the concepts of modal verbs through exploiting metaphors. To this end, the effect of the main treatment of the study, i.e. Concept-Based Instruction (CBI) was investigated through conceptual metaphors, in two gender (male vs. female) ...

Metaphor and Analogy are perhaps the most challenging phenomena for a conceptual representation to facilitate, since by their very nature they seek to stretch the boundaries of domain description and dynamically establish new ways of determining inter-domain similarity. This research considers the problem of how a conceptual system structured around a central taxonomy can dynamically create new...