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

Thus, writers can use metaphors to strategically control their readers’ perceptions. Okay, so you know metaphors are important and hopefully you now have a better understanding of why that is ...

“The ordering of the operations ‘putting shoes on’ and ‘putting socks on’ therefore matters,” Schwichtenberg had written, ...

But metaphors are more than an aid to explanation: repeated metaphors affect the ways we perceive, think and act, for they shape our understanding of events. They also structure our attitudes ...

However, metaphors have been widely subjected to conceptual and normative critique for their potential to mislead, to the extent that they highlight some characteristics of the target domain while ...

Metaphors relating to journey, war and struggles are probably the most frequently used in any area, but particularly so when talking about diseases such as cancer or, more recently, COVID-19.

Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie the use of metaphors in the organizational change literature. This diversity is symptomatic of broader ontological and epistemological conflicts ...