Giacomel, Zalaudek and Marghoob analyzed the different approaches of metaphoric and descriptive terminology in dermoscopy based on lessons from the cognitive sciences [1]. In our view, both approaches are used effectively daily and worldwide: • “Blink” is the first, more metaphoric-based diagnosis at a glance for most of the lesions in our clinical setting (e.g., “arborizing” vessels or “spoke-...

In this paper we address the issue of the encoding of information on metaphoric expressions in a (multilingual) lexical-semantic database for NLP applications. When analysing corpus data we find a huge number of metaphoric expressions which can be hardly dealt with by using as reference databases resources already developed. In particular, we have compared information contained both in dictiona...

In this paper we propose an analysis of the metaphor "This surgeon is a butcher!” discussed in Grady, Oakley & Coulson 1999, introducing it into a mental space framework derived from conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), blending theory (BT) and cognitive semiotics. The method of analysis is to work backwards; we attempt to reconstruct the meaning of the butchersurgeon metaphor by giving a step-by-...

Following Almor’s (1999) cost-function analysis of referential processing, we hypothesized that reading times of metaphoric anaphors are affected by readers’ working memory ability and reflect a balance between discourse function and processing cost. The results from two self paced reading experiments supported this hypothesis. Low span participants always read sentences with metaphoric anaphor...