Theorists often associate certain “poetic” qualities with metaphor – most especially, producing an open-ended, holistic perspective which is evocative, imagistic and affectively-laden. I argue that, on the one hand, non-cognitivists are wrong to claim that metaphors only produce such perspectives: like ordinary literal speech, they also serve to undertake claims and other speech acts with propo...

From the biological perspective human musicality is the term referred to as a set of abilities which enable the recognition and production of music. Since music is a complex phenomenon which consists of features that represent different stages of the evolution of human auditory abilities, the question concerning the evolutionary origin of music must focus mainly on music specific properties and...

SIR—It is widely recognised that musical abilities may outlast other faculties in advanced dementia, and may become almost the sole means of communication between patient and carer. It is possible that a specific neural substrate may be identified. A fuller account is in preparation jointly by myself and Raya Jones (PhD) of Cardiff University. There are two details on which we have been unable ...

The main goal of this paper is to extract the semantic relations underpinning concepts English prepositional of-constructions derived from poetic and non-poetic datasets, using Princeton WordNet. problem addressed by two different algorithms, which are evaluated for their ability model types resources derived, predict unseen relations. first algorithm introduces concept subsumption hierarchy be...

Any poem can be characterized by its rhythm which is also revealing of the poet's peculiar style. In turn, the poem's rhythm is based mainly on two elements: meter, that is distribution of stressed and unstressed syllables in the verse, presence of rhyming and other poetic devices like alliteration, assonance, consonance, enjambements, etc. which contribute to poetic form at stanza level. Tradi...

1 Introduction Primary verbal composite modelling, as manifested in cognitive poetry, raises serious theoretical questions over the nature and function of the linguistic sign (Stockwell 2002). If language as a conventional symbolic system qualifies as the Peircian Thirdness, it cannot possibly be at the same time a Firstness. Rather than getting once again into the infinitely boring debate on t...

sorrow is one of the poetic subjects which is frequent since the ignorance period through elegiac poems which are full of kindness and sad motions. but since the recent & new era in particular since he romanticism era it gains progress in such a way that it does not only appear through the poetic couplets which illustrate an experience of poetic elegical sense, but also it becomes of potential ...

since long time ago, mobile metaphor and simile are most important mean for poetic images creation. the present paper studies bayati works according to the important role of the colors in poetic images creation in. we came to conclusion that the poet has used the colors in order to express his feelings, his unsatisfactory as well goals, aims and ideologies. the colors application or secret sema...