The British and Irish Lions won the second test, and the series, against Australia on Saturday and then, on Sunday, came the ...

Conclusions Violence metaphors are not by default negative and Journey metaphors are not by default a positive means of conceptualising cancer. A blanket rejection of Violence metaphors and an ...

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

In short, metaphors are at the heart of the digital world, and play a key role in making it accessible to all. Even if this metaphorization has limits of intelligibility due to the decontextualization ...

1 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States 2 Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States People use space (e.g., left–right ...

The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they ...

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.

In Metaphors We Live By they argued that abstract thought is mostly metaphorical (having a literal core extended by mutually inconsistent metaphors and therefore incomplete without them), that ...

The metaphors used to characterize monkeypox can contribute to narratives that help sustain racist, colonial, homophobic and other discriminatory attitudes and beliefs.

Marble bust of Aristotle. Public domain. Metaphors are not user-friendly. They are hard to find and hard to use well. Unfortunately, metaphor is a mainstay of good lyric writing; indeed, of most ...