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 ...

Source: "London - Metropolitan Railway / Underground Map 1923 (Postcard)" by Roger W/Flickr, CC BY SA 2.0 Can the use of analogy provide us a deeper understanding of the mind? To draw this out, in ...

Pierre-Paul Delvaux exhorts that unlike poetic metaphor, which aims to make the familiar unusual, pedagogical metaphor aims to make the unusual familiar. "[...] There is in the use of pedagogical ...

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 ...

The human brain has an affinity for metaphors—a word or phrase that means something other than what it literally denotes. In addition to stimulating higher levels of mental processing, metaphors ...

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 ...

"You have to win the battle against depression", "what counts is not surrendering" and "this is not a short road" are examples of conceptual metaphors typically used to describe experiences and issues ...

Luciara Nardon received funding from the Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work and funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Insight Grant (435-2020-0025) Amrita Hari ...