Literal versus nonliteral reminders for proverbs

Explaining the Time-Course of Literal and Nonliteral Comprehension

Over the last few decades, a considerable number of experimental studies have been made on the time-course of literal and nonliteral comprehension. These studies have been devoted to test two incompatible models of nonliteral processing: serial model and parallel (direct) model. The serial model states that literal interpretation is an obligatory process and nonliteral interpretation is trigger...

Chapter 23 Metaphor and the Literal / Nonliteral Distinction

A Cohesion-based Approach for Unsupervised Recognition of Literal and Nonliteral Use of Multiword Expression

Texts frequently contain expression whose meaning is not strictly literal, such as idioms. Idiomatic and non-literal expressions pose a major challenge to natural language processing technology as they often exhibit lexical and syntactic idiosyncrasies. We propose a novel unsupervised method for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of expressions. Our method determines how well a liter...

Comprehension and Memory of the Literal and Figurative Meaning of Proverbs

Proverbs were used to examine reci)gt~it ion memon f o r four wpes of sentence information U?guraticr meaning, literal meaning, lexical inforrnutinn, syntactic information) with n\.u li'vels of comprehension. Forced-choice recognition tasks showed that subjects were s u ~ ~ c i ' s . ~ j i ~ I in rernetnhering al l fi111r t\'pes of infi)rrnation. Recognition scores for the f i f i i rcuin' t u ...

Iranian Folklore, Proverbs and Aspiration for Development

Social scientists strongly believe that cultural norms and values shape, stimulate, direct, and influence all activities of human societies. This study attempts to provide a sociological analysis of cultural components, in particular the content of the proverbs included in Dehkhoda's Amsal va Hekam (Proverbs and Parables) and their role in Iran's underdevelopment. This book was chosen ...