Speakers often use symbols, images and metaphors they take for granted, assuming their meaning is available to the audience. However, there’s no way to be certain there’s not a cultural Picard ...

The force of a metaphor depends above all upon its freshness and originality, in some sense, upon its disruptive qualities. If a metaphor is overused, it becomes a cliché, and some metaphors are ...

But symbols couldn’t sustain our marriage. It turned out marriage isn't a tree, or a rock, or a roof, or any of the other words we'd relied on. October 4, 2017 More than 7 years ago ...