This paper represents an attempt to conduct a corpus-based stylistic analysis of two conceptual metaphors in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," which is a novel written by Milan Kundera. "Soul-body" and "lightness-heaviness" metaphors are foregrounded as being central themes all through the novel. The way such…

This article explored the way people and connectionist models could apply knowledge of the structure of one domain to another. The process of the Simple Recurrent Network in modelling these data illustrates how abstract knowledge of artificial grammars can be understood in terms of statistical structure. (nine references) (CK)