Three experiments explored whether conceptual mappings in conventional metaphors are productive, by testing whether the comprehension of novel metaphors was facilitated by first reading conceptually related conventional metaphors. The first experiment, a replication and extension of Keysar et al. [Keysar, B., Shen, Y., Glucksberg, S., Horton, W. (2000). Conventional language: How metaphorical i...

Eliciting Domain Knowledge Using Conceptual Metaphors: A Case Study from Music Interaction Conference Item How to cite: Wilkie, Katie; Holland, Simon and Mulholland, Paul (2014). Eliciting Domain Knowledge Using Conceptual Metaphors: A Case Study from Music Interaction. In: Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014), Sept 9 12, 2014, Southport, UK...

This study examines the possibility of using corpus-driven quantitative techniques to describe emotion concepts. It examines the concept of ANXIETY in American English, British English, Japanese and Swedish. In Cognitive Linguistics, the description of emotion concepts, based on lexical semantics, is done with the analytical framework of the Idealised Cognitive Model and the Theory of Conceptua...

Languages exhibit striking semantic diversity, but different languages often share core metaphors. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) claims that universal human experiences give rise to conceptual representations that are then expressed in language. But languages change slowly, making it difficult to observe implicit conceptualization affecting linguistic convention in real ti...

Many noteworthy studies have been done to examine the discursive relationship between gender and metaphor in the context of politics, media and literature. In this research, however, I try to investigate the relationship between gender and metaphor specifically in poetical discourse. The main questions of this research are as follows: What is the role of gender in the production and selection o...

Metaphor is, in essence, mapping from the target domain to the source domain; from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract. When this happens, the entailments of metaphors as well as the contextual information will be integrated into texts and hence form coherent texts. Thus, it is accessible for us to explore discourse cohesion and coherence from the point view of conceptual m...