There are 2 basic controversies concerning how metaphors are processed. First, are metaphoric mappings more akin to literal comparisons or to literal categorizations? And second, is metaphor comprehension indirect or direct? We believe that these controversies are more appqent than real and that a unified theoretical framework can be offered that reconciles these opposing views. The central ide...

In this visual world eye tracking study we explored simulation of fictive motion during language comprehension in figurative sentences in Hindi. Eye movement measures suggest that language comprehenders gaze longer at visual scenes on hearing fictive motion sentences compared to their literal counterparts. The results support previous findings in English and provide cross linguistic evidence fo...

This article aimed to analyze the figurative language used in Bible Old Testament. The objectives of this research are find out types and meanings To data, author uses main theory proposed by Knickerbocker Reninger (1963) entitled Interpreting Literature meaning Leech (1981) Semantics. analyzed data using a qualitative method. were collected reading Bible, taking note classifying sentences that...

1.1 The Task D o m a i n Here we address the problem of mapping phrase meanings into their conceptual representations. Figurative phrases are pervasive in human communication, yet they are difficult to explain theoretically. In fact, the ability to handle idiosyncratic behavior of phrases should be a criterion for any theory of lexical representation. Due to the huge number of such phrases in t...

Analogy is a figure of speech used in different fields including advertising. Metaphor and simile are the figurative devices for creating analogy. Unlike metaphor simile, analogy has not received enough attention from researchers. There limited number studies on as an independent literary phenomenon rarely studied persuasive tool Accordingly, main aim this study to highlight successful applicat...