This article uses conceptual metaphor theory to develop the concept of ‘skeumorphs’ (reuse of old concepts for new phenomena) in order to analyse the Swedish The Pirate Bay court case. In line with conceptual metaphor theory, which states that abstract thinking is largely metaphorical, the article argues that this is true also for digital phenomena that, thus, are largely understood through met...

By Keola Donaghy Abstract: This article examines how the elements and interactions of the natural world can used as metaphors for the formative processes of Hawaiian language composition and vocal performance. It will examine the composition Ka Wai A K?ne (“The Water of K?ne”) and its depiction of the movement of water through the ahupua?a (a pre-contact land division) to present a conceptual m...

Languages exhibit striking semantic diversity, but different languages often share core metaphors. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) claims that universal human experiences give rise to conceptual representations that are then expressed in language. But languages change slowly, making it difficult to observe implicit conceptualization affecting linguistic convention in real ti...

Most computational approaches to metaphor have focused on discerning between metaphorical and literal text. Recent work on computational metaphor identification (CMI) instead seeks to identify overarching conceptual metaphors by mapping selectional preferences between source and target corpora. This paper explores using semantic role labeling (SRL) in CMI. Its goals are two-fold: first, to demo...

The research title is An Analysis of Metaphor In Ratatouille’s Movie: Semantic Approach. Semantics generally designed as the study meaning in semantics there a figurative language that compares and exaggrate word metaphor part language. an understanding experience one kind thing terms another, conceptual classified three namely: structural metaphor, orientational ontological metaphor. object th...

The conceptual issues of information use are discussed by reviewing the major ideas of sense-making methodology developed by Brenda Dervin. Sense-making methodology approaches the phenomena of information use by drawing on the metaphor of gap-bridging. The nature of this metaphor is explored by utilizing the ideas of metaphor analysis suggested by Lakoff and Johnson. First, the source domain of...

This paper describes the main features of the Italian Metaphor Database, buing built at the University of Perugia (Italy). The database is being developed as a resource to be used both as a knowledge base on conceptual metaphors in Italian and their lexical expressions, and to enrich general lexical resources. The reason to develop such a database is that most NLP systems have to deal with meta...

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...

Abstract As explored in relevant literature, both ecolinguistics and cognitive linguistics emphasize metaphors as conceptual devices to frame the reality around us. Animal metaphor forms an interesting domain comprehend human-animal relationship at interface of linguistics. Deriving from this, research questions suitability animalized language through Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) Blending (...

Mazzola et al. propose a metaphor to describe the process by means of which an open question is solved in a creative way, likening it to the manner by which, due to the Yoneda Lemma of category theory, the internal structure of any object is completely characterised by a diagram of certain selected objects and morphisms. Building upon this metaphor, we explore how the creativity underlying conc...