Humans rely on metaphors to guide a shared understanding of our complex world, and in a novel twist, a faculty member in the University of Rhode Island's Department of Fisheries, Animals and ...

Everyone knows that the internet kind of has its own language. What that means is that people online simply interact a little ...

A new study tested how humans and ChatGPT understand color metaphors, revealing key differences between lived experience and language-based AI.

ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users' ...

Leading civil resistance scholars Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks have described the need for a “large-scale, multiracial, cross-class, pro-democracy front.” And Maria Stephan, writing for Just Foreign ...

Similes give your mind “permission” to think in new and varied ways. No longer bound to logical thinking, you are free to craft a wealth of potential possibilities.

How Pope Francis' example 'sounds a lot like Jesus' Theologian and Fox News contributor Jonathan Morris heads to Rome to provide updates on the events leading up the pontiff's funeral and the ...

For example, drug or cigarette metaphors are very common when people talk about social media, and in some ways, they’re apt. Apps like TikTok and Instagram can be genuinely addicting and are ...

Choose your metaphors with care – they are more powerful than you think Think carefully about the words you use in advertising copy as they could have an impact on the customer that you didn’t expect.

Here at Science Friday, we’re big fans of metaphors. They can make complicated scientific concepts easier to understand, for both non-experts and scientists themselves. For example, “the big bang” ...

What Is a Simile? Definition and Meaning A simile is a figure of speech that compares two things using the words “like” or “as.” For example, “busy as a bee” is a simile that compares being busy to ...

Throughout history, metaphors and figurative language have been used in health and social care to aid communication, visualise illness and conceptualise thinking. This article, the second in our ...