The theory of metaphor proposed by Lakoff and Johnson (1980a, 1980b) and Lakoff (1993) involves a mapping of conceptual structure from one semantic domain to another. We investigate properties of these conceptual domain mappings by comparing them to morphological derivational relations. Schematicity and productivity are properties that Bybee (1985) and Langacker (1987) propose for characterizin...

We are exploring the use of high-level knowledge about bodies in the visual understanding of gesture. Our hypothesis is that many gestures are metaphorically derived from the motor programs of our everyday interactions with objects and people. For example, many dismissive gestures look like an imaginary object is being brushed or tossed away. At the discourse level, this implicit mass represent...

The researchers randomly assigned 90 children to conditions in which they learned using different kinds of physical interaction with the material. In one group, children picked up magnetic number tiles and put them in the proper place in the formula. For example, for the problem 4 + 2 + 6 = ___ + 6, they picked up the 4 and 2 and placed them on a magnetic whiteboard. Another group mimed that ac...

DDT is a system for testing closed-source binary device drivers against undesired behaviors, like race conditions, memory errors, resource leaks, etc. One can metaphorically think of it as a pesticide against device driver bugs. DDT combines virtualization with a specialized form of symbolic execution to thoroughly exercise tested drivers; a set of modular dynamic checkers identify bug conditio...

Metaphors pervade discussions of sociopolitical issues and influence the way we think. One challenge facing researchers, however, is that it can be difficult to make principled predictions about exactly how metaphors will influence thought. Here, we use an explicit comparison task to quantify the persuasive capacity of metaphors. In Experiment 1, people were given two metaphors and two policy r...

People speak metaphorically about abstract concepts-for instance, a person can be "full of love" or "have a lot of love to give." Over the past decade, research has begun to focus on how metaphors are processed during language comprehension. Much of this work suggests that understanding a metaphorical expression involves activating brain and body systems involved in perception and motor control...

We metaphorically call “Grammar of Biology” a small field of genomic research, whose main objective is to search for DNA sequence intrinsic properties. Erwin Chargaff inaugurated it back in 50s, but since then little progress has been made. It remained almost neglected until early 90s, when Vinayakumar V. Prabhu made a major contribution determining the Symmetry Principle. Remarkably, during th...

Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) sees metaphor as a means to conceptualize abstracts in everyday discourse employing concrete. This research investigates the use of “Light” (Nur Arabic) metaphorically source domain several concepts (target domains) Quran, for instance, “THE QURAN IS LIGHT”. The study explores power non-literary relying on and its hypotheses. Additionally, it will identify targe...

This article suggests that, as a field of study, we have accumulated too many routinised ways to legitimate our academic identity; that it is time step away from comfortable clichés about past; and notice the future is, at least metaphorically, now urgent. However, while easy illustrate banalities use define identity, difficult turn metaphor ‘the now’ into coherent perspective for seeing ‘futur...

Abstract Women in academia are typically outnumbered by men, a phenomenon metaphorically known as “the leaky pipeline.” This study contributes showing motherhood penalty the career pipeline at postdoctoral stage Germany—that is, during habilitation. Based on CV information and an email survey, paper examines which factors associated with being awarded habilitation whether these differ between w...