Figurative Language, Mental Imagery, and Pragmatics.
Many people report experiencing mental imagery (visual, auditory, and/or kinetic) when they comprehend verbal metaphors. The question whether imagery is merely an incidental side-effect of processes of metaphor understanding or plays a key role in comprehension remains unresolved, with diametrically...
| Publicado en: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 198 - 218 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2018
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