An Individual-Differences Approach to Poetic Metaphor: Impact of Aptness and Familiarity.
Using poetic metaphors in the Serbian language, we identified systematic variations in the impact of fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of metaphors that varied in rated aptness and familiarity. Overall, comprehension scores were higher for metaphors that were high rather than low i...
| Published in: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 149 - 162 |
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