In this article, we present details about our ongoing work towards building a repository of Linguistic and Conceptual Metaphors. This resource is being developed as part of our research effort into the large-scale detection of metaphors from unrestricted text. We have stored a large amount of automatically extracted metaphors in American English, Mexican Spanish, Russian and Iranian Farsi in a ...

Happiness is the goal of American dream; a means to reach happiness wealth; in following turn, wealth cannot be gained without optimism, opportunities, and hard work. Meanwhile, massive use conceptual metaphor raises question whether all domains, namely work, wealth, were expressed Great Gatsby whose theme dream. The data collection technique was document analysis. differentiated from non-data,...

The confusion between objects/processes and the language which describes them, leads to theories of doubtful verisimilitude about reality, inappropriate in time even false, distance us from knowledge perceived reality. In biology there are many examples this kind epistemological problem. Here we examine those related with specificity: a theoretical entity enormous importance for science general...

The duality of computer programs is characterized, on the one hand, by their physical implementations on physical devices, and, on the other, by the conceptual implementations in programmers’ minds of the objects making up the computational processes they conceive. We contend that central to programmers’ conceptual implementations are (i) the concept of type, at both the programming and the des...

The present study aims at discussing whether metaphors in the Qur’an, revealed more than 1400 years ago, are dead, moribund or live and how these three types of metaphors have been translated in three English and three Persian translations of the Qur’an. The results reveal that among 70 metaphors examined, while only about 32.85% are live metaphors, about 67.14% are moribund, but none of the ca...

This study investigates whether understanding up/down metaphors as well as semantically homologous literal sentences activates embodied representations online. Participants read orientational literal sentences (e.g., she climbed up the hill), metaphors (e.g., she climbed up in the company), and abstract sentences with similar meaning to the metaphors (e.g., she succeeded in the company). In Exp...

Teasing apart the role of cognitive and linguistic factors in children's metaphorical abilities. ABSTRACT Metaphor plays a unique role in cognitive development by structuring abstract concepts and leading to conceptual change. Existing work suggests early emergence of metaphorical abilities, with five-year-olds understanding and explaining metaphors that involve cross-domain comparisons (e.g., ...

This article explores the role of metaphor in conceptualization economic crisis English terms sociohistorical – cognitive linguistic interface. On material mass-media discourse 19th century “long depression”, 20th Great Depression and 21st Global Economic Crisis It reveals concept historical variation defines vector its development. also develops methodology analysis proves that being а part hu...