In the article, author studies stylistic means for expressing transhumanism in William Gibson’s debut cyberpunk “Sprawl” trilogy, which touches particular on social, moral and ethical problems of high technologies. The purpose article is to study those conceptual metaphors trilogy that figuratively actualize TRANSHUMANISM concept. To achieve this goal, examines fantastic world formed by them, t...

This paper addresses the question whether metaphors can be represented in WordNets. For this purpose, domain-centered data is collected from the Hamburg Metaphor Database, an online source created for the study of possible metaphor representations in WordNets. Based on the results of the analyses of French and German corpus data and EuroWordNet, the implementation problem is discussed. It can b...

In this presentation, we intend to approach pictorial metaphors (PM) and verbopictorial metaphors (VPM) in written Portuguese advertising, using a corpus of newspaper and magazine advertisements. As theoretical framework, we use the Cognitive Linguistics theory of the multiple spaces and blending by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner (2003) and part of Charles Forceville’s (1996) approach to VPM...

The nature of putative semantic anomalies in schizophrenia is controversial. Metaphor interpretation and use provide a useful methodology with which to probe semantics since metaphors are critical in reasoning processes and in how conceptual knowledge is organized. The first study examined free speech for figurative language. The second study explored whether emotional versus non-emotional meta...

This paper addresses the question whether metaphors can be represented in WordNets. For this purpose, domain-centered data is collected from the Hamburg Metaphor Database, an online source created for the study of possible metaphor representations in WordNets. Based on the results of the analyses of French and German corpus data and EuroWordNet, the implementation problem is discussed. It can b...

This paper introduces a new, intuitively straightforward approach for thinking about important aspects of systems that are being analyzed, designed, and constructed. Building on past research highlighting metaphors related to organizations, IS, and projects, it shows how considering common, broadly applicable types of subsystems (not standard IS categories such as MIS and DSS) might provide dir...

The culture of an organization can be grown and disseminated by infusing it in the artifacts of the organization. These artifacts can be physical things, informational objects, or conceptual artifacts. As people internal and external to the organization encounter these artifacts, they also encounter the culture. This paper focuses on conceptual artifacts—such as stories, metaphors, activities, ...

A central question in metaphor research is how metaphors establish mappings between concepts from different domains. The authors propose an evolutionary path based on structure-mapping theory. This hypothesis--the career of metaphor--postulates a shift in mode of mapping from comparison to categorization as metaphors are conventionalized. Moreover, as demonstrated by 3 experiments, this process...

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...