The Metaphorical Brain Long considered a peripheral topic in linguistics, metaphor is increasingly viewed as a central feature of higher cognition and abstract thought. Investigation of the neural substrate of metaphor has, similarly, become more sophisticated, involving increasingly specific suggestions about the processes involved in its comprehension. This Frontiers Research Topic brings tog...

In this theoretical paper figurative aspects of algebraic symbolism are discussed and related to the theory of image schemata, opening up for one way of understanding the development of symbol sense in mathematics. The ideas of mathematical forms (referring to spatial characteristics of mathematical formulas), and form operations, are at the core of this analysis.

Figurative language is an interesting phenomenon to be studied and analyzed because it one of the most arduous topics that literal processing has face used in any form communication. The aims this study were identify analyze figurative wotikwawiwaten ceremony. This research descriptive qualitative research. techniques data collection interview document. result shows there are four types found; ...