Literal meaning: A first step to meaning interpretation
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Literal Meaning and re
Based on psychological studies which show that metaphors and other nonliteral constructions are comprehended in the same amount of time as comparable literal constructions, some researchers have concluded that literal meaning is not computed during metaphor comprehension. In this paper, we suggest that the empirical evidence does not rule out the possibility that literal meaning is constructed....
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عنوان ژورنال: Topics in Linguistics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2199-6504,1337-7590
DOI: 10.2478/topling-2018-0012