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Everyday concepts of duration, of sequence, and of past, present, and future are
fundamental to how humans make sense of experience. In culture after culture, converging …

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including
metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It …

The newly revised edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive
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Languages differ widely in the ways they encode time. I test the hypothesis that the
languages that grammatically associate the future and the present, foster future-oriented …

Nine experiments of timed odd–even judgments examined how parity and number
magnitude are accessed from Arabic and verbal numerals. With Arabic numerals, Ss used …

Graphics have been used since ancient times to portray things that are inherently
spatiovisual, like maps and building plans. More recently, graphics have been used to …

The first systematic, corpus-based and theoretically rigorous approach to the description and
analysis of multimodal documents. Drawing on academic research and the experience of …

Both common wisdom and findings from multiple areas of research suggest that it is helpful
to understand and make meaning out of negative experiences. However, people's attempts …

How do we construct abstract ideas like justice, mathematics, or time-travel? In this paper we
investigate whether mental representations that result from physical experience underlie …