Alan M Wallington

Biographic Data

ID6551570
NAMEAlan M Wallington
GIVEN NAMESAlan M
FAMILY NAMEWallington
SIGNATUREWALLINGTON A M
AFFILIATIONSBangor University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Concreteness in Metaphor

    Open AccessPhillip Wadley, Alan M Wallington et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2026

    Metaphor research is currently undergoing renewed interest in the concrete-abstract continuum. Lexical processing research shows that concrete words like “cat,” “vase,” and “book” are processed more quickly and with clearer mental imagery than abstract words such as “government,” “accident,” and “dream.” This poses some interesting questions about metaphor processing, as metaphors often show a conceptual asymmetry where Topic terms are abstract, …

  • Moving Figures and Grounds in music description

    Open AccessPhillip Wadley, Thora Tenbrink et al.ARTICLECognitive Linguistics2024Cited by: 1References: 1

    This paper is a systematic investigation of motion expressions in programmatic music description. To address issues with defining the Source MOTION and the Target MUSIC, we utilize Gestalt models (Figure-Ground and Source-Path-Goal) while also critically examining the ontological complexity of the Target MUSIC. We also investigate music motion descriptions considering the role of the describer’s perspective and communicative goals. As previous re…

  • Metaphorical reasoning with an economical set of mappings

    Open AccessAlan M Wallington, John A Barnden et al.ARTICLEDELTA Documentação de Estudos em…2006References: 9

    This paper discusses the nature of the metaphorical transfer from the source domain to the target domain. More specifically, it explores the question as to how the mapping links between features of the source and the target are created. It is argued that, for many metaphors, it is incorrect to assume that all the elements of the source domain map to elements of the target domain, and that a much more economical set of mappings should be used inst…

  • Varieties and Directions of Interdomain Influence in Metaphor

    John A Barnden, Sheila Glasbey et al.ARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2004

    We consider the varieties and directions of influence that the source and target domains involved in a conceptual metaphor can have on each other during the course of understanding metaphorical utterances based on the metaphor. Previous studies have been restricted both as to direction of influence and as to type of influence. They have been largely confined to the "forward" (source to target) direction of influence, and they have concentrated on…