It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the ...

President Donald Trump’s political speeches recently served as a testing ground for the capabilities and limitations of large language models. By analyzing the metaphors embedded in four major ...

What Is Figurative Language in Songs? Figurative language in songs enhances lyrics by using non-literal expressions to create imagery, emotion, and deeper meaning. Common examples include metaphors, ...

BRILL's mainly English language publications include book series, individual monographs and encyclopaedias as well as journals. Publications are increasingly becoming available in electronic format ...

Figurative language such as metaphors, irony, and idioms are common in everyday discourse. The recognition of the importance of figurative language to social communication has resulted in a ...

We apply an approach from cognitive linguistics by mapping Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) to the visualization domain to address patterns of visual conceptual metaphors that are often used in ...

Throughout history, metaphors and figurative language have been used in health and social care to aid communication, visualise illness and conceptualise thinking. This article, the second in our ...

New Orleans Saint head coach Dennis Allen proved just how zeroed in football guys are when he realized that he had no idea what a metaphor was.

What kind of training is required to help language students use metaphor-based strategies to work out the meaning of new vocabulary? Que tipo de treinamento é necessário para ajudar estudantes de ...