Previous research has shown that people can implicitly acquire mappings between word forms and literal meanings (Williams, 2004, 2005). We argue, from the metaphor-representation and embodiment perspectives, that people can unconsciously establish mappings between word forms and not only literal but also metaphorical meanings. Using Williams' (2005) paradigm, we found that transfer of form-mean...

I argue that the cross-linguistic morpho-syntactic diversity of expressions for ’and’ corresponds to a diversity of semantic interpretations. My work is based on a case study of Q’anjob’al (Mayan, Guatemala) which presents several ways of expressing ’and’. Q’anjob’al employs both a comitative conjunction yetoq ‘with’, and a European-style conjunctions k’al and i ‘and’, freely applicable to vari...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the interplay between personality factors and metaphorical schemas. The “Big Five” personality factors of 20 patients after lung transplantation were examined with the NEO-FFI. Patients were questioned about their social network, and selfand body-image. The interviews were assessed with metaphor analysis. Significant positive correlations were fou...

although the use of metaphorical markers in corpora has been studied to a largeextent (e.g., glucksberg & keysar 1993; skorczynska & deignan, 2006; sznjder,2005), no attempt to the best of the researchers' knowledge has been made todescribe metaphorical marking in a comparative analysis of 2 corpora in bothnational and international journals of applied linguistics in iran. the gap envis...

This project examined whether the cultural and linguistic experiences of English and Chinese speakers can result in different metaphorical representations of emotion in those individuals. The Brief Implicit Association Test (BIAT) technique was used to measure how strongly various colors are associated with anger, sadness, happiness, fear, envy, shame and shyness. The results showed that some m...

Metaphorical expressions (MEs) are abundant in political text and their translation ‎poses challenges particularly for retaining the implicit meaning. This research focuses on examining use of conceptual metaphors (CMs) ‎in Indonesian ‎political news English translation. The objectives ‎ to identify types source domain CMs explain how translated.‎ ‎Grounding mixed-methods, data were metaphorica...

Abstract: In this paper, the author investigates question of units by which God is named in Bishop Nicholai Velimirovich’s Prayers Lake. The choice Lake usually determined subject prayer itself. expresses his creativity using names for biblical origin. And even more, he enriches already established, common expressions with as denotation new meaning dimensions, also an expression authentic creat...