No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

The tech world is teeming with metaphors (you might say the way an ocean is teeming with fish). Sometimes those metaphors are helpful for understanding new innovations and ideas, but other times they ...

Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

Writing about metaphor is dancing with your conceptual clothes off, the innards of your language exposed by equipment more powerful than anything operated by the TSA. Still, one would be a rabbit not ...

Metaphor is to pedagogy, what foreplay is to love. It prepares our understanding with lightness and gentleness. Rather than going straight to the lesson of experience, metaphor is a kindly detour that ...

Metaphors cannot be taught, asserted the great philosopher Aristotle. “It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others.” But a computer scientist and literary historian say Aristotle is wrong.