Convention, Form, and Figurative Language Processing
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Convention, Form, and Figurative Language Processing
There are 2 basic controversies concerning how metaphors are processed. First, are metaphoric mappings more akin to literal comparisons or to literal categorizations? And second, is metaphor comprehension indirect or direct? We believe that these controversies are more appqent than real and that a unified theoretical framework can be offered that reconciles these opposing views. The central ide...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Metaphor and Symbol
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1092-6488,1532-7868
DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2001.9678896