Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is
an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension …

Changes in the biosciences and their relations to society over the last decades provide a
unique opportunity to examine whether or not such changes leave traces in the language …

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like'that wet blanket is a loose cannon', but admire'Life's
but a walking shadow, a poor player', and all the metaphors packed into Macbeth's' …

Why is Artificial Intelligence concerned with metaphor, and what special contributions can AI
offer to metaphor research? This chapter will indicate why AI needs to study metaphor and …

We consider the varieties and directions of influence that the source and target domains
involved in a conceptual metaphor can have on each other during the course of …

Analogical reasoning is often employed in problem-solving and metaphor interpretation.
This paper submits that, as a default, analogical reasoning addressing these different tasks …

This article argues that certain phenomena concerning metaphor that have been studied
largely separately are in fact strongly interrelated, to the extent of forming an indivisible …

В монографии рассматриваются актуальные проблемы лингвистической креативности
на материале английского языка. Особое внимание акцентируется на феномене …

This paper argues that two properties of the linguistic structure of an utterance influence and
partially determine whether the utterance has a metaphoric meaning that results in a stable …

A detailed approach has been developed for core aspects of the task of understanding a
broad class of metaphorical utterances. The utterances in question are those that depend on …