ABSTRACT: This research aimed to describe the pro-cons figure of speech on a Facebook comment from Robert Mugabe Speech at AU 2016. The description this is using pragma-stylistics analysis. Utilization personification, metaphor, hyperbole, litotes, metonymy, synecdoche, paradox, irony, parallelism, alliteration, allegory, meiosis, idioms, antithesis, sarcasm, epizeuxis, and climax. Data were ga...

The distinction between literal and figurative use is well-known embedded in ‘folk linguistics’. According to folk linguistics, uses deviate from ones. But recent work on lexical modulation polysemy shows that meaning deviation ubiquitous, even cases of use. Hence, it has been argued, the literal/figurative no value for theorising about communication. In this paper, we focus metaphor argue here...

The present study explores the interplay of evaluation and transitivity in an American Spanish parliamentary debate by President Obama PM Rajoy aiming at legitimizing their actions convincing candidates to vote for them upcoming elections. A further objective is investigate whether appraisal analyses illustrate politicians’ ideological positions. Within general framework Systemic Functional Lin...

Introduction: Psychological symptoms of non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) including perceptual, emotional, and behavioral problems can effect patient perception of chest pain. This study was conducted to determine the effect of metaphor therapy on mitigating depression, anxiety, stress, and pain discomfort in patients with NCCP. Materials and Methods: This randomized, controlled, trial was conducte...

This short paper presents a system developed at the Université Paris 13 for the Semeval 2007 Metonymy Resolution Task (task #08, location name track; see Markert and Nissim, 2007). The system makes use of plain word forms only. In this paper, we evaluate the accuracy of this minimalist approach, compare it to a more complex one which uses both syntactic and semantic features, and discuss its us...

When learning to program, students often mistakenly refer to an element that is structurally related to the element that they intend to reference. For example, they may indicate the attribute of an object when their intention is to reference the whole object. This paper examines these reference-point errors through the context of metonymy. Metonymy is a rhetorical device where the speaker state...

Named entities are frequently used in a metonymic manner. They serve as references to related entities such as people and organisations. Accurate identification and interpretation of metonymy can be directly beneficial to various NLP applications, such as Named Entity Recognition and Geographical Parsing. Until now, metonymy resolution (MR) methods mainly relied on parsers, taggers, dictionarie...

We address the problem of interpretation of logical metonymy using a statistical method. Previous approaches to logical metonymy produce interpretations in the form of verb senses, whereas our definition of the interpretation is a cluster of verb senses. Such a class-based computational model of logical metonymy is novel and more informative than the previous ones. It also complies with the lin...

This paper unpacks the cognitive processes potentially involved in comprehending funerary ‘models’ from ancient Egypt. These objects comprise small scenes, usually made of wood, which have been found burial chambers pharaonic-era tombs. After considering fittingness term ‘model’, illustrates how a approach might better help us understand purported functionality these than has hitherto case. app...