Metaphors are used to describe the Internet, comparing it to a ‘library’, a ‘highway’, a ‘web’, stating that it brings us ‘closer’ and applying various other notions of distance, shape, size, movement, orientation and navigation to it. I describe the metaphoric process and its spatiotemporal aspects, and argue that, in order to explain its dynamics, a framework based on processes with variable ...

In this paper we propose an analysis of the metaphor "This surgeon is a butcher!” discussed in Grady, Oakley & Coulson 1999, introducing it into a mental space framework derived from blending theory and cognitive semiotics. We attempt to reconstruct the meaning of this metaphor, and hypothesize a general framework for analyzing metaphoric blends and other forms of expression that utilize blends...

[1] This essay describes a hypothesis of how music becomes internalized into the bodies and minds of listeners. The hypothesis underlies a larger theory of musical meaning, concerning affect, metaphoric reasoning, gender, and other areas of inquiry related to bodily experience, but the implications for these larger areas of meaning must wait until the details of the hypothesis have been made pl...

This paper introduces the work performed to manually label linguistic metaphors in the document collection of SemEval 2013, in the Spanish lexical disambiguation task. The objectives of this work are two: first, to make a prior identification of the difficulties inherent in metaphor detection in Spanish, and second, to generate a new linguistic resource as a collection of Spanish documents with...

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...