Interpreting figurative meaning /
Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of sp...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Identifying figurative language
- Models of figurative language comprehension
- Interpreting specific figures of speech
- Indeterminacy in figurative language experience
- Factors shaping figurative meaning interpretation
- Broadening the scope of figurative language studies.
