Introduction: Cognitive linguists believe that metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon, and that what appears in language is just the aspect of cognitive phenomenon Metaphor is one of the basic interdisciplinary concepts that has been paid more attention to its fundamental role in various aspects of psychology, medicine, including cancer in recent years. Methods:. From the point of view of cognitiv...

Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the application of Halliday’s metafunctional framework in health texts of English newspapers. The ...

prophet mohammad (p) was at the peak of eloquence and rhetoric at the height of the comprehensively statement and spoke with every tribe in their language. to express the whole of word, we review the metaphor of prophet’s words in order to demonstrate a piece of his rhetoric and eloquence. this paper seeks to examine the art of metaphor and expressions of the holy prophet (p). our method of dis...

This research is aimed to analyze the figurative languages used in Roar song by Katy Perry. Objectives of study: (1) find out Perry, (2) meaning language and (3) moral value messages lyrics. Based on objective study, researcher uses descriptive qualitative method collecting data. From data analysis, found appeared They are Metaphor, Personification, Simile, Paradox, Irony, Alliteration, Onomato...

Purpose: This study compares the degree of metaphor and reasoning comprehension development three groups by evaluating children with language delay, matching age, chronological age.Methods: The subjects were 15 delayed development, age. In order to find out their understanding metaphors reasoning, test was conducted presenting a stimulus plan stimulation pictures on one panel in which subject s...

Comparisons are common linguistic devices used to indicate the likeness of two things. Often, this likeness is not meant in the literal sense—for example, “I slept like a log” does not imply that logs actually sleep. In this paper we propose a computational study of figurative comparisons, or similes. Our starting point is a new large dataset of comparisons extracted from product reviews and an...