sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form o...

This study explores the metaphoric comprehension of normal Persian-speaking children, as well as theories of cognitive development and cultural and social impacts. The researchers discuss the improvement of the understanding of ontological conceptual metaphors through age growth and cognitive development, and how it helps to expand children’s thoughts and knowledge of the world. In this study, ...

The economic media discourse depends upon a complex web of metaphors, among which WAR metaphor is worthy of special attention. The data used in this study is comprised of 2566 articles (about 1.2 million words) under the Economy column of China Daily published in 2014. Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) is used as the analytical framework to investigate WAR metaphor in the economic media discours...

Exploring and revealing relations between the elements is a frequent task in exploratory analysis and search. Examples include that of correlations of attributes in complex data sets, or faceted search. Common visual representations for such relations are directed graphs or correlation matrices. These types of visual encodings are often if not always fully constructed before being shown to the ...

In the developing world, skills in innovation and creative design have emerged as key attributes for graduating designers. Creativity is essential if we want to generate new solutions to the considerable and complex problems in architecture. Metaphor is frequently expressed as a key tool for enhancing creative design, yet little empirical research has been performed on how novice designers can ...

the main purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of metaphor and its functions in education. there are two main parts in this paper: the first is to discuss the six major classic and modern theories of metaphor according to their cognitive and intellectual functions , and the second is to identify and classify the four types of figurative language including metaphor, simile, allegory an...

This study examines the impact of different metaphors on the process of hypertext construction. Two groups of 20 college students with no experience in hypertext construction received introductory explanations on the text format ‘‘hypertext’’ based on either a book or a space metaphor. Then they had to construct hypertexts by linking prepared nodes on the topic of the ‘‘Internet’’. The differen...

Metaphor has been studied for centuries, but traditionally it confined to the field of rhetoric, and seen as a rhetorical method. However, with development modern society advancement cognitive linguistics, some linguistics researchers believe that metaphor is no longer just linguistic phenomenon, also mode thinking. The conceptual system contains rich sufficient cultural information, which make...

We present a novel approach to the problem of multilingual conceptual metaphor recognition. Our approach extends recent work in conceptual metaphor discovery by combining a complex methodology for facet-based concept induction with a distributional vector space model of linguistic and conceptual metaphor. In the evaluation of our system in English, Spanish, Russian, and Farsi, we experiment wit...

Introduction An ecological metaphor is often used in discussing the interrelated and interdependent organization of software development environments. We believe that this is a rich and potentially useful way of describing complex systems of people and technologies that are involved in developing, using, sustaining and archiving software. Further, an appropriate metaphor can be a useful analyti...