The current research considered the question of how performing an action, or merely preparing the body for action, can have an impact on social judgments related to person perception. Participants were asked to ascribe competence and warmth characteristics to a target person by reading a metaphoric text while their body was manipulated to be prepared for the processing of action-congruent infor...

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-...