This paper focused on the way names of body parts are artistically used to convey meanings and messages in Kifipa, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Since the body parts metaphors are used by people to portray meanings in their daily conversations (Kovecses, 2004; Vierke, 2012), the paper investigated such linguistic richness in the language. Methodologically, the study identified names of b...

The Semantic Web will allow for significantly more machinereadable content to be available on the World Wide Web. Getting this content onto the web, and using it once it is there, requires new “metaphors” for working with Semantic Web data. In this paper, we describe the “Semantic Web Portal” an approach to using Semantic Web content, and some (open source) tools that we are developing to make ...

neuropsychological studies have demonstrated that preclinical dementia accompanies a decreasing trend in cognitive state a few years prior to clinical diagnosis. sudden decline in episodic memory and semantic knowledge have been found to have the capability to differentiate patients in preclinical state of dementia from those experiencing normal aging. in addition, decline in episodic memory is...

Like any other technology, the Semantic Web cannot succeed if the applications using it do not serve the needs of the users. Annotea is a Semantic Web based project for which the inspiration came from users' collaboration problems in the Web. It examined what users did naturally and selected familiar metaphors for supporting better collaboration. The selected metaphors were a good match also fo...

Semantic Web will allow for significantly more machine-readable content to be available on the World Wide Web. Getting this content onto the web, and using it once it is there, requires new “metaphors” for working with Semantic Web data. This paper will describe the “Semantic Web Portal” an approach to using Semantic Web content, and some freely available tools that we are developing to make it...

There is an evident correlation between semantic distance and creativity in the treatment of metaphor. When the tenor and vehicle concepts of a metaphor are semantic neighbors, the local structure of the taxonomy can be used to constrain any interpretations and thus significantly curtail the breadth of the search space. This reliance on taxonomy makes WordNet ideally suited to the treatment of ...

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...

THISSTUDY DRAWS UPON THFORIFS from cognitive anthropology concerning the role that metaphors and mental scripts play in organizing human thought and action. Metaphors are implicit cognitive templates that enable people to understand novel situations in terms of familiar ones, while the related scripts provide outlines for how to act in emergent situations. These theories are applied to the ways...

Adult speakers of English use three different metaphor types to describe time, including moving-time (’summer approaches’), moving-ego (’we approach summer’), and sequence-as-relative-position-on-a-path (’autumn follows summer’). When do children grasp the meaning of these three metaphors for time and what cognitive and/or linguistic factors account for this understanding? To explore these ques...