Affective-map** effects between affective stimuli and lever movements are critically
dependent upon the evaluative meaning of the response labels that are used in the task …

Previous research has shown that words presented on metaphor congruent locations (eg,
positive words UP on the screen and negative words DOWN on the screen) are categorized …

Light and darkness can be used metaphorically to help structure good and bad in all media,
but film is particularly suitable for exploiting such metaphors. On the basis of examples from …

Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that human beings can only understand
abstract, complex phenomena by metaphorizing them in terms of concrete, more basic …

According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the Source-Path-Goal (SPG) schema
constitutes a central concept in cognition. Apart from literally structuring “movement”, SPG …

Could anything at first sight seem more impractical than a body which… is so small that its
mass is an insignificant fraction of the mass of an atom of hydrogen…? JJ Thomson …

Moving toward a place and manipulating objects are probably the most important
manifestations of goal-oriented actions. Both selfpropelled motion toward a destination and …

This paper presents a usage-based method for investigating metaphor acquisition in the
speech of children aged two and above. The method draws on the strengths of the …

The quickly growing discipline of multimodality has hitherto primarily found its inspirational
models in semiotics and in Systemic Functional Linguistics. However, Cognitive Linguistics …

This volume looks at spatialization of abstract concepts in verbo-pictorial aphorisms at work
in the cartoons of a single artist. While extensive work has been done in studying …