The following review critically synthesizes the literature on hemispheric differences in idiom and metaphor comprehension. It has long been debated whether figurative language is inherently different from literal language and is processed specifically in the right hemisphere (RH), or rather, whether figurative and literal language form a continuum rather than a dichotomy, and call upon a simila...

Although the field of natural language processing has made considerable strides in the automated processing of standard language, figurative (i.e., non-literal) language still causes great difficulty. Normally, when we understand human language we combine the meaning of individual words into larger units in a compositional manner. However, understanding figurative language often involves an int...

The present study aimed firstly at investigating the impact of translators' style on figurative language translation from English into Persian. Secondly, it intended to find which strategies were most frequently adopted by Persian translators to translate figures of speech into Persian. Lastly, the study sought to check the extent of transference of figurative features of literary texts in Engl...

This paper deals with the cognitive study of conceptual field English language aphorism. The methodology analysis textual concepts has been proposed and applied for means verbalization concept WISDOM in aphorisms. Based on application English-language aphorisms, it can be stated that following constituents: 1) conceptual, scope which is much wider than reflected dictionaries: «wisdom possession...

Figurative Note. Abstract images are constructed by an algorithm that randomly assigns elements to adesign. Painted figurative images conform to complexity level in corresponding VDT Abstract.Both VDT Abstract and Figurative images were co-calibrated to define a common artistic judg-ment aptitude construct.PERSONS MAP OF ITEMS| +|. |||...

Metaphor enters contemporary philosophical discussion from a variety of directions. Aside from its obvious importance in poetics, rhetoric, and aesthetics, it also figures in such fields as philosophy of mind (e.g., the question of the metaphorical status of ordinary mental concepts), philosophy of science (e.g, the comparison of metaphors and explanatory models), in epistemology (e.g., analogi...