The aim of this study is to set out to explore how children living in Polish-English
transnational families in the UK develop symbolic competence and symbolic power in home …

This chapter applies a cognitive linguistics framework to the analysis of imagery
encountered within the context of Buddhist worship. The analysis shows how both metaphor …

The quest for the universality of rights has been the focus of many scholarly debates in the
'West'. When 'universality'refers to 'rights', it can mean various things, including a universal …

Abstract" Unpacking Creativity: The Power of Figurative Communication in Advertising" by
Peréz Sobrino and Littlemore Ford explores how advertisers use figurative tropes to capture …

As investment in Virtual Reality (VR) continues, we sought to better understand the unique
value proposition this technology has to offer by testing the impact of a virtually embodied …

This article examines the range of metaphors activated by the cooking term stew in English
and its Spanish counterpart guisar. The data were drawn from Corpus of Contemporary …

The personalization of political communication refers to the foregrounding of politicians
(including their public and private lives and activities) rather than political groups, eg, parties …

Are there metaphors in law? This may sound a trivial question to someone who would
expect a negative answer, or a milder one in case they fantasise about artistic metaphors …

Iraqi EFL learners' recognition of meanings of house-related idioms has been Investigated.
The paper assumes that cultural idiosyncrasies related to the conceptual knowledge …

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume
which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to …