The study undertakes a metaphoric analysis of the animal metaphors in Miriri’s Ekegusii pop song “Ebunda” (a donkey) to reveal meaning. meaning might be elusive majority fans because metaphor is principally matter thought and action which often situated specific context. employed descriptive research design describe as used song. First, four coders (including researchers) were identify through ...

Object concepts refer to unique clusters of properties that can be selectively activated or inhibited depending on what information is currently relevant. This conceptual "stretching" enables limitless new meanings to be generated, and figurative language provides a useful framework in which to study this conceptual flexibility. Here we probe the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the c...

the present study tries to analyze some conceptual metaphors in the bustan, using insights from cultural linguistics. the data analyzed shows that through a cultural model, the word del, productively, embodies the mind of persian speakers via conceptualizing emotions (love, happiness, and grief), mental faculties (understanding, thinking), cultural values (munificence, truth), character traits ...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been playing an important role in constructing propagating China’s international image. This study explores BRI-themed pictorial news reports featured with the coexistence of text pictures from China Daily BBC to analyze BRI image construction. Our discussion centers on two perspectives multimodal conceptual metaphors, namely representational meaning, inte...

Interaction design for domains that involve complex abstractions can prove challenging. This problem is particularly acute in domains where the intricate nature of domain-specific knowledge can be difficult for even the most experienced expert to conceptualise or articulate. One promising solution to the problem of representing complex domain abstractions involves the use of conceptual metaphor...

This chapter proposes a new approach to style, arising from our work on computational media using structural blending, which enriches the conceptual blending of cognitive linguistics with structure building operations in order to encompass syntax and narrative as well as metaphor. We have implemented both conceptual and structural blending, and conducted initial experiments with poetry, includi...

Cognitive linguists have so far paid a great deal of attention to the remarkable universality of many conceptual metaphors. However, their theories fail to account for the equally impressive diversity of metaphorical conceptualization both across and within cultures. The present paper is an attempt to lay down the foundations of a theory of metaphor that is capable of simultaneously accounting ...

This paper proposes a new approach to style, arising from our work on computational media using structural blending, which enriches the conceptual blending of cognitive linguistics with structure building operations in order to encompass syntax and narrative as well as metaphor. We have implemented both conceptual and structural blending, and conducted initial experiments with poetry, including...