Metaphors are a fundamental aspect of human language and cognition, allowing us to understand complex concepts and relationships by mapping them onto more familiar and concrete domains. However, the ...

Language has the power to shape the way we think. The words we use to communicate can influence our perceptions, ideas and subsequent choices. One example is the use of metaphors, figures of speech ...

Using The Water Dragon and Reunion as case studies, this paper applies Serafini’s multimodal text analysis framework to compare the Chinese and English covers from three perspectives: perception, ...

The semantic categorization task included two questions: 1. Love is light/heavy. 2. Love is soft/hard. The options were randomized and presented. The word “love” was replaced by “恋爱” “浪漫之爱” “男女之爱” ...