The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

Metaphor scholars have long debated whether the possibility that metaphor is “conceptual”
or possibly “embodied” ignores crucial social and linguistic facts about metaphor in …

I will suggest that there is a fundamental difference between deliberate and non-deliberate
metaphor use, which hinges on attention. Then I will address the most important implications …

Recent groundbreaking work in cognitive linguistics has revealed the semantic complexity of
motion metaphors of time and of temporal frames of reference. In most approaches the focus …

What factors motivate our understanding of metaphoric statements about time? English
exhibits two deictic space–time metaphors: the Moving Ego metaphor conceptualizes the …

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Automatically Ordering Events and Times in Text Page 2 Studies in Computational Intelligence …

A growing body of literature has established that spatiotemporal metaphoric reasoning
processes can be affected by the active experience of motion (such as actual motion, fictive …

This article is concerned with some cross-linguistic asymmetries in the use of two types of
time metaphors, the Moving-Time and the Moving-Ego metaphor. The latter metaphor …

In the past years, many studies have shown that bodily experiences play a crucial role in
human cognition and, especially, in language comprehension. In this regard, many findings …

Embodied cognition posits that abstract conceptual knowledge such as mental
representations of time and space are at least partially grounded in sensorimotor …