In gesturing metaphorically, people use physical space to represent abstract ideas that have no spatial instantiation in the world (e.g., gesturing upward to indicate high intelligence). This volume illustrates the range of metaphorical gestures that people produce, yet researchers have only just begun to explore the psychological significance of these gestures. What functions might they serve ...

The paper presents a corpus-based method for finding metaphorically used lexemes and prevailing semantico-conceptual source domains, given a target domain corpus. It is exemplified by a case study on the target domain of European politics, based on a French 800,000 token corpus.

This paper shows that several sorts of expressions cannot be interpreted metaphorically, including determiners, tenses, etc. Generally, functional categories cannot be interpreted metaphorically, while lexical categories can. This reveals a semantic property of functional categories, and it shows that metaphor can be used as a probe for investigating them. It also reveals an important linguisti...

function on A is thus a choice of an element of the variable set A at each stage; in other words, a choice function on A is just a variable (or global) element of A . The axiom of choice (AC) asserts that if each member of a family A is nonempty, then there is a choice function on A . Metaphorically, then, the axiom of choice asserts that any family of sets with an element at each stage has a v...

In the 1992 case of Rogers v. Whitaker, the High Court of Australia may not have rendered asunder the floodgates which metaphorically hold back the tide of American-style malpractice litigation. But though the sluice has not yet been fully breached, the flow of “blame and claim” law-suits has increased from a steady trickle to a minor torrent. Many of these are in the nature of “failure to warn...

Traditionally, depictions and descriptions have been seen as complementary; depictions have been preferred to convey iconic or metaphorically iconic information whereas descriptions have been preferred for abstract information. Both are external representations designed to complement human memory and information processing. We have found the same underlying structure and semantics for route map...

Making a difference to the health of populations, however small, is what most people in public health hope they are doing. Epidemiologists are no ex10 ception. But often caught up in the minutiae of our day-to-day work, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Is health improving, mortality declining, are things moving in a positive direction? Getting out and taking in the view (metaphor...