… Excavating the meaning of a target term is a challenge facing … a novel method for excavating
the meaning of a target term … a novel method for excavating metaphor-based meaning; and (…

… In preparing this article, we found turf orientation reported for just 20 excavated barrows, …
Apart from dead, there appears to be just one other primary conceptual metaphor based on …

… it is only through metaphor based on bodily experiences that … Even though “the body and
brain are where meanings arise … the posthole outline of an excavated structure or settlement, …

… alternative for explaining death and change: a metaphor based on the growth of plants. …
is to identify words and phrases whose meaning in context differs from their normal or “basic” …

… Why we decided to base our ancient Chinese data on Comprehensive Chinese Dictionary
is out of the following considerations. First, this 12‑volume dictionary, compiled over two …

… the Ling Tan couple start to dig a hole under the ground … metaphor based on a corpus and
combined with semiotics can be employed for discourse analysis, as it assumes that meaning …

… meanings is that of all metaphors. Is it desirable to say that in the case of a metaphor-based
extension like that of pakarni in (13) or katirni in (14) we have a separate meaning of the …

… (eg to branch , to dig ) but may not be so with others (eg to cross-fertilise or to lie fallow ),
the first sample exercise addresses the literal meaning of certain words and expressions. …

… try and dig deep for numerous examples and metaphors with which to elucidate the meanings
of … The metaphor-based model we propose seeks to achieve similar benefits in first-time …

… As for the idioms appearing in textbooks, it is necessary for teachers to encourage
students to dig out the underlying conceptual metaphor system of idioms. This method helps …