abstract the aim of this paper is to illustrate the role of metaphor in education. the main thesis is that the metaphors shape our attitude towards education implicitly.  with this aim in mind, first, the concept of metaphor is briefly introduced, and then three of the most famous metaphors that have been used in education (factories, gardening and travel), and their differences are discussed. ...

The economic media discourse depends upon a complex web of metaphors, among which WAR metaphor is worthy of special attention. The data used in this study is comprised of 2566 articles (about 1.2 million words) under the Economy column of China Daily published in 2014. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) is used as the analytical framework to investigate WAR metaphor in the economic media discours...

Recent work on metaphor processing often employs selectional preference information. We present a comparison of different approaches to the modelling of selectional preferences, based on various ways of generalizing over corpus frequencies. We evaluate on the VU Amsterdam Metaphor corpus, a broad corpus of metaphor. We find that using only selectional preference information is enough to outperf...

The tripod (ding 鼎) and the nine tripods (jiuding 九鼎) are significant in ancient China, appearing often Daoist alchemy. However, they have been largely ignored by scholarship on Daoism. Early alchemy saw as critical elements production of immortality, but outer (waidan 外丹) gave up refining elixir due to technical reasons. was merely mentioned elaboration Later, Southern Song dynasty, inner (nei...

While serious illness is a crisis in the life course of any human being, it harmonizes particularly poorly with traditional notions masculinity. Statistically, more men than women get cancer, but seem likely to communicate about their emotions and experiences public. In this article, we examine connection between cancer narratives, war combat metaphors hegemonic masculinity based on six recent ...

in the persian eloquence, the imagination forms mainly comprise simile and metaphor. however, metonymy and irony as well are discussed under the same title. although in persian eloquence, rhetoric discusses such four important subjects, it is somewhat different in the western eloquence. the present study deals in brief with these four subjects. although the word metonymy can be considered as th...

We aim to address two complementary deficiencies in Natural Language Processing (NLP) research: (i) Despite the importance and prevalence of metaphor across many discourse genres, and metaphor’s many functions, applied NLP has mostly not addressed metaphor understanding. But, conversely, (ii) difficult issues in metaphor understanding have hindered large-scale application, extensive empirical e...

Automatic processing of metaphor can be clearly divided into two subtasks: metaphor recognition (distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language in a text) and metaphor interpretation (identifying the intended literal meaning of a metaphorical expression). Both of them have been repeatedly addressed in NLP. This paper is the first comprehensive and systematic review of the existing com...

In the conceptual metaphor theory, it has been common to assume at least two metaphors where concepts of Time are structured through concepts of Space; Time-moving metaphor and Ego-moving metaphor. Several researchers carried out quantitative studies and revealed that languages have preferences on these Temporal metaphors: Ego-moving metaphor is more preferable in English and Chinese. This pape...

Like many other disciplines, medicine often resorts to metaphor in order to explain complicated concepts that are imperfectly understood. But what happens when medicine's metaphors close off thinking, restricting interpretations and opinions to those of the negative kind? This paper considers the deleterious effects of destructive metaphors that cluster around pain. First, the metaphoric basis ...