Daniel M. Gross, Metaphor and Definition in Vico's New Science, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Autumn 1996), pp. 359-381 ...

Figures of speech are used every day in our lives. Here is what a metaphor is and examples of how it is used.

Children's interpretations of metaphors used in a science text and their teacher's use of explanatory metaphor are analysed and compared to identify key processes in metaphor understanding and to ...

Metaphors and other figurative language are deeply woven into the fabric of human communication, as this very sentence actually demonstrates. But how do our brains translate these metaphors into ...