--- abstract: |+2 Abstract: Oral Metaphor Construct,(OMC), is a new concept in Cognitive Linguistics based upon metaphor dynamics that ,also, has significance in numerous related fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Anthropology, Automated Voice Systems, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, Communicative Disorders, Second Language Acquisition, etc. The Oral Metaphor Construct is a language imprint that identifies the predisposed space time metaphorical configuration of articulation and semantic objects of the Mind that is passed from one generation to the next via the genome which mediates language acquisition and facilitates the learning of a second language. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: SSGRR 2002 Summer confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Stepak given: Asa M. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-06-25 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/22/94 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2294 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/2294/1/index.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: unpub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'metaphor, cognitive linguistics, knowledge inheritance' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:56 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:44:01 subjects: - psy-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Oral Metaphor Construct--New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics type: confpaper userid: 3212 volume: ~