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Direct linkWilliam Orwig; Simone A. Luchini; Roger E. Beaty; Daniel L. Schacter – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Creativity researchers have recently sought to standardize idea assessment via computational measures of semantic distance: the degree of conceptual dissimilarity between words. The relationship between semantic distance and creativity has traditionally been described using linear models, with the embedded assumption that as semantic distance…
Descriptors: Creativity, Semantics, Creative Thinking, Figurative Language
Download full textBaramee Kheovichai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Research has shown that food metaphors play an important role in humans' conceptualization of various domains of experience. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the phraseology of food metaphors. This research aims to investigate food metaphors and their phraseology. Particularly, this paper focuses on the lemmas "consume"…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, North American English
Emiko J. Muraki; Lorraine D. Reggin; Carissa Y. Feddema; Penny M. Pexman – Journal of Child Language, 2025
Extensive research has shown that children's early words are learned through sensorimotor experience. Thus, early-acquired words tend to have more concrete meanings. Abstract word meanings tend to be learned later but less is known about their acquisition. We collected meaning-specific concreteness ratings and examined their relationship with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, College Students
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2025
"A Dictionary of Contemporary Figurative Language" is meant to be an appendix to an earlier, more comprehensive work: ED648945, "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor 2024." This appendix simply updates the dictionary of that previous work to better reflect the language used during the 2024…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Dictionaries, Phrase Structure
Aigul Sarbassova; Karylga Duisenova; Kuralay Zhampeiis; Aiym Aldabergenova; Dinara Sapargaliyeva; Zhanslu Kanagatova – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Paremiology is a branch of linguistics that studies proverbs and idioms, with their structural, semantic and pragmatic features. The purpose of the study was to distinguish ethnocultural and linguo-cognitive features inherent in Paremiology. For this purpose, the study analyzed family traditions related to weddings in Kazakh, English and Chinese…
Descriptors: Turkic Languages, Chinese, Proverbs, Ethics
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Editor; Marcin Trojszczak, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
The book offers new insights into linguistics by focusing on a range of fast-developing research areas. These include research into language contact, which is represented by some original chapters discussing less-frequently studied language pairs and phenomena. Moreover, it presents new findings in syntax and semantics as well as up-to-date…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Syntax
