A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS IN HUMAN-WRITTEN AND AI-GENERATED ENGLISH TEXTS: A PILOT STUDY FRAMEWORK
Keywords:
Cognitive Linguistics, Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, MIPVU, Embodied Cognition, Corpus Linguistics.Abstract
The rapid integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into natural language generation has raised fundamental questions in cognitive linguistics regarding how meaning is constructed. According to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), human metaphor generation is rooted in embodied physical experience. However, artificial intelligence systems generate complex metaphorical expressions through statistical probability without physical grounding.
Published
2026-10-14