Cognitive processes involved in metaphor aptness

The Metaphor Interpretation Test: Cognitive Processes Involved and Age Group Differences in Performance

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Metaphor aptness and conventionality: A processing fluency account

Conventionality and aptness are two dimensions of metaphorical sentences thought to play an important role in determining how quick and easy it is to process a metaphor. Conventionality refers to the familiarity of a metaphor whereas aptness refers to the degree to which a metaphor vehicle captures important features of a metaphor topic. In recent years it has become clear that operationalizing...

Cognitive processes involved in learning logic

Cognitive Processes Involved in Video Game Identification

Identifying with video game characters is one potentially important process in game enjoyment. Based on a theoretical model of video game identification as transformed self-perception, cognitive processes in video game identification were explored. An experiment with N = 60 male players revealed that increased cognitive accessibility of character-related concepts should be considered as element...

Cognitive Metaphor Theory Revisited

This paper provides a framework which, being compatible with Lakoff and Johnson’s theory (1980), allows a description of metaphoric verbal utterances. The development of this theoretical expansion is encouraged by Lakoff and Johnson’s distinction between nonliteral and literal metaphoric expressions, and by the fact that they do not provide an explanation of the nonliteral metaphoric use of exp...