Creative linguistic devices like metaphor, simile and analogy serve two important roles in language. The first of these is to make the unfamiliar and the strange seem more familiar and understandable (Indurkhya, 1992). For instance, one might describe a burqa (a full body covering for Muslim women) as a suit of armor, as a shield against prying eyes or, depending on one’s communication goal, as...

The aim of the present paper is to provide insight into the issue of idiom comprehension in patients who are in the process of recovery from the syndrome of aphasia. Research in figurative language comprehension has seen a robust development in the recent decades. However, it has not been until quite recently that psycholinguists began to delve into the aspect of metaphorical language comprehen...

Novel metaphorical expressions have been understudied in traditional approaches to terminology because they normally behave as sporadic units incapable of structuring whole discourse events. To show that this is not always the case, this paper presents a case study of novel BIOECONOMICS metaphors in an academic marine biology research article (Landa 1998). They were analysed following two parad...

Endometriosis represents a common gynecological condition affecting 5%-15% of childbearing age women and up to 3% 5% of post-menopausal women. This disease is defined by the presence of stromal and/or endometrial glandular epithelium implants in extra-uterine locations possibly compromising several sites. Humans and animals are daily exposed to chemical pollutants that could adversely influence...

This article deals with Greek animal fables, traditionally attributed to a former slave, Aesop, who lived during the sixth century BCE. As a genre, the Aesopic fables, or the Aesopica, has had a significant impact on the Western fable tradition and modern Western children’s literature. The Aesopica owes much to the Mesopotamian fables and has parallels in other Near Eastern cultures. Modern res...

Abu Tammam is considered a great Arab poet of his time. created various poems from different topics such as spinning, praise, satire, and some include nature poetry about spring. On the other hand, Matsuo Basho was one most famous Japanese poets, but greatest in writing haiku, its phenomena. Based on this, researchers view that they should to be studied analyzed issue, then compare two both poe...

One of the hallmarks of human intelligence is the ability to go beyond literal meanings of utterances to infer speakers’ intended meanings, a feat that remains elusive to the most advanced artificial systems. Figurative language such as metaphor, in particular, provides a striking case where complex meanings arise that cannot be derived from the literal semantics alone. For example, My lawyer i...

In Hong Lou Meng, the straightforward description of appearances young women characters is highly prevalent ; Cao used rhetorical devices metaphors and similes to present abstract beauty into something visual. As English Chinese culture norms works literature do not share same standard choice images, translation, on one hand, runs dilemma keeping image original thus compromises its reader’s und...

The article examines the peculiarities of use stylistic devices in novel “Where Crawdads Sing” by American writer Delia Owens and their reproduction Ukrainian translation. Stylistic means are an integral part fiction they possess metaphoric meaning, emotional features that help convey author’s idea. functioning aspect metaphor simile were clarified. It was also found peculiarity is presence a n...