An overview of the basics of metaphorical thought and language from the perspective of
Neurocognition, the integrated interdisciplinary study of how conceptual thought and …

Over the past 20 years, many in the field of second language learning and pedagogy have
become familiar with models of language that emphasize its communicative nature. These …

This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry presents selected papers from the McGill Advanced
Study Institute on “Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing.” The meeting addressed the …

Metaphor acquisition research has focused mostly on metaphor comprehension in
monolingual children. Ours is the first study to examine metaphor production in young …

On the" standard" view of conceptual metaphors (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; Kövecses
2002), metaphorical creativity arises from the cognitive processes of extending, elaboration …

An important reason for the tremendous interest in metaphor over the past 20 years stems
from cognitive linguistic research. Cognitive linguists embrace the idea that metaphor is not …

Many attempts have been made to discover some systematicity in the semantics of phrasal
verbs. However, most research has investigated the semantics of particles exclusively; no …

This paper studies the principles according to which spatial and motion concepts
metaphorically structure temporal concepts in some languages. There are two types of …

When and how were the arrows of love created? Individual invention has been argued for by
classicists; a connection to everyday metaphors has been suggested in cognitive linguistics …

Se realiza una aproximación al conflicto armado colombiano reciente desde el análisis
discursivo, a partir de una muestra de comunicados oficiales del Presidente de Colombia …