The purpose of this article is to present a few research findings on the process of understanding simile, where special attention was given to the semantic relationship between its three major components: Tenor (hereafter T), Vehicle (hereafter V) and Predicate (hereafter P). By manipulating different degrees of conventionality among these three components and the explicit presence of a P, eigh...

Annotated corpora are invaluable resources for researchers in the humanities: on the one hand, for natural processing tasks, they can serve as standards against which results from new automatic methods can be measured; on the other hand, in corpus-based studies, they enable either to answer existing research questions or to explore original ones. In this respect, some annotation frameworks such...

Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. In this study, we investigated the neural substrates involved in the comprehens...

This paper is a report on an analysis of the English preposition like. I investigated the 101,096 occurrences of this preposition in the British National Corpus (BNC). What is its normal role and function? It seems that like has a central role to play in cognition, more powerful than metaphor and going far beyond mere comparison of similarities. It is a truism that like introduces similes (e.g....

simile is the most important principle of rhetorical figures that other principles such as metaphor, metonymyandallusion are caused by it. in this study, different types of imagery have been evaluated, classified, and compared with each other in veis and ramin, and khosrow and shirin from the various common aspects such as analogies, metaphors, similes, emotionality or rationality, simplicity o...

abhar-al asheghin is full of imageries. the active mind of roozbahan has rendered the work with a chain of connected similes . in this paper, inspired by the conceptual metaphor theory and in a framework called as “ domain simile” these similes were studied. in “ domain simile” , the elements of one domain or category are in concordance with elements of another domain;a simile is considered as ...

Abstract Very little is known about the processes underlying second language (L2) speakers’ understanding of written metaphors and similes. Moreover, most theories on figurative comprehension do not consider reader-related factors. In study, we used eye-tracking to examine how native Finnish speakers ( N = 63) read English nominal (“education a stairway”) similes like stairway”). Identical topi...

Aptness, defined as how the vehicle is well able to cover the salient features of the tenor (e.g., oil is like liquid gold vs. a train is like a worm), is claimed to be an important factor in the preference for metaphors over similes, or vice versa. This study was an attempt to test for the supposed correlation between the perceived degree of aptness and a priori stylistic preference for metaph...