Abstract This special issue explores the use of metaphor in education from a multilingual perspective two Scandinavian countries, Norway and Sweden. In this introduction, we include brief overview earlier research domain identify common factors noteworthy to discuss relation context, for instance, notion creativity speaker legitimacy second language context. The includes six articles comprising...

this research, relying on critical discourse analysis(cda), has proceed to analyze ten novels of modern iranian men and women writers.in the field of lexicon, using marked lexicon and metaphor, and in the section of syntax, using syntactic non – norm in the texts, it has compared active vs. passive sentences, long vs. short sentences, and direct vs. indirect speech with regard to gender of the ...

Argument by multimodal metaphor usually plays a vital role of persuasion daily. In this paper, we analyse the argumentation of Lin Dan Commercial (LDC), an anti-corruption advertisement broadcasted on China Central Television, with conceptual metaphor theory and multimodal metaphor, in order to carry out an evaluation of the reasonableness and effectiveness of the argument. On practice, this re...

In this paper, we investigated the process of interestingness cognition in metaphor comprehension. We did this from the point of view that the interestingness of a metaphor (e.g., “life is like a gamble”) is related to its interpretative diversity. Two studies were conducted to assess this phenomenon: Study 1 (interpretation-production) and Study 2 (interpretationpresentation study). In Study 1...

Research on metaphor has generally focused on exploring its context-dependent behavior and function. This current study aims to testify the postulate of English verb's innate trait of Metaphor Making potential. This paper intends to carry out an in-depth case study of a group of English core verbs using WordNet and SUMO ontology. In order to operationalize the assessment of an English verb’s me...

Metaphor makes our thoughts more vivid and fills our communication with richer imagery. Furthermore, according to the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) of [26], metaphor also plays an important structural role in the organization and processing of conceptual knowledge. According to this account, the phenomenon of metaphor is not restricted to similarity-based extensions of meanings of individual...