Language helps people communicate and think. Precise and accurate language would
seem best suited to achieve these goals. But a close look at the way people actually talk …

Metaphor is pervasive in language and thought: in scientific discovery (Gentner, 1982;
Gentner & Jeziorski, 1993; Gruber, 1995; Nersessian, 1992), in literature (Gibbs, 1994; …

The main goal of verbal metaphor interpretation is traditionally believed to be the recovery of
a context-sensitive metaphorical meaning. One focus of experimental studies is to assess …

Some metaphor scholars have proposed that certain notable metaphorical expressions in
speech and writing may have been deliberately composed, and quite consciously employed …

A pop song is one of the popular genres widespread in society. The label'popular'is used as
it covers a diverse range of masses, started from pre-dominantly youth to adult, that target …

Irony is an effective but challenging mode of communication that allows a speaker to
express viewpoints rich in sentiment with concision, sharpness and humour. Creative irony …

Since Aristotle, scholars have regarded similes and metaphors as equivalent figures of
speech sharing very similar comprehension, interpretation and usage patterns. By analysing …

For 84 unique topic–vehicle pairs (eg, knowledge–power), participants produced associated
properties for the topics (eg, knowledge), vehicles (eg, power), metaphors (knowledge is …

Comparisons are common linguistic devices used to indicate the likeness of two things.
Often, this likeness is not meant in the literal sense—for example,“I slept like a log” does not …

Humorous descriptions are often couched in the form of a simile, whose flexible frame
allows an author to yoke a topic to a perspective that is at once both incongruously different …