When David Epston asked us to write this piece, he described it as a chance to share emerging ideas that may not be fully formed but that fill us with enthusiasm and excitement. He described it as ideas that make you want to run down the hallway shouting, to share with colleagues who are eager to discuss them with you (Epston, 2010). In this tradition, we are very excited to announce, as we met...

Abstract The focus of the present study is relation between metaphor and aspect: are certain grammatical forms more prone to be used metaphorically? We approach this issue through a puzzling case Russian aspectual triplets. based on distributions unprefixed imperfective verb gruzit’ (IPFV1) ‘load’, its perfective counterparts (PFVs) prefixed secondary imperfectives (IPFV2s) with prefixes na- , ...

This paper presents Musimage, a novel system which displays pictures according to the songs being played at the same time. By using the interface the user selects the songs to be played, but the pictures are automatically selected. For each song to be played, the system selects a set of pictures, according to various criteria corresponding to some features of the song. In this sense, the pictur...

abstract: narrate (rawayat) was a way to preservation and transmit of poetry. rawayat is an arabic word and means: carryng of water, and metaphorically means: convey the poetry and hadith. in persian literature famous poets sang their poetry or had one or more rawis, who preserved and sang their verses. these rawis had particulars. in this essay we extract these particulars from verses and indi...

One of most dominant conceptual metaphors used to talk about the COVID-19 across languages and cultures is war metaphor, but many other have been attested, exploiting a wide range source domains. It appears, however, that there sort evolutionary movement concerning frequency with which particular domains are used, progressing first towards more aggressive, war-like concepts, then after culminat...

Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles is a futuristic, science fiction novel that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans, projecting the United States’ colonial and immigrant past on to a symbolic future. Bradbury’s use of language is mostly picturesque and sensory. The present paper applies a text-oriented analysis of stylistic elements that construct meaning in the text and evoke the n...

People's innate neurological perceptions, mental simulations, intuitions, and schemas provide the familiar source entities, relationships, and actions for a metaphor. People metaphorically project this information on to the target problem to construct new concepts, relationships and actions. People also reason metaphorically to: connect mathematical ideas, improve recall, understand mathematica...

This research aims to integrate embodiment with generative lexicon. By analyzing the metaphorically used human body part terms in Sinica Corpus, the first balanced modern Chinese corpus, we reveal how these two theories complement each other. Embodiment strengthens generative lexicon by spelling out the cognitive reasons which underlies the production of meaning, and generative lexicon, specifi...