The Symmetry Control in Tests of the Standard Pragmatic Model: The Case of Proverb Comprehension.
In the standard pragmatic model of figurative language comprehension, literal meanings are constructed first and then used to develop figurative meanings (e.g., Searle, 1979). Although this multistage assumption implies that literal meaning should be comprehended faster than figurative meaning, it i...
| Publicado en: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 257 - 274 |
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