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Can ships and street signs ever mix? Source: iStock; Matthew Barra/Pexels English composition instructors tend to have strong opinions about how the language should be written. You may have been ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...