Figurative Language, Language Disorders, and Language(s) Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Preparation of this work was supported by funds from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grants FFI2014-61888-EXP and FFI2016-78034-C2-2-P) and FEDER.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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, 2023 Figurative Language is a traditional rhetorical style, which refers to a group of diverse tropes and uses of words describing pictorial or graphical objects in a non-literal way (Dancygier and Sweetser 2014; Colston 2015). Figurative language acts by contrast to other non-figurative language, just as a metaphorical word acts by contrast when used ...
Hsu, Shih-Wei
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On the specificity of figurative language comprehension impairment in schizophrenia and its relation to cognitive skills but not psychopathological symptoms - Study on metaphor, humor and irony [PDF]
Schizophrenia Research: CognitionPeople with schizophrenia have difficulty understanding figurative expressions, such as metaphors, humor or irony. The present study investigated the specificity of figurative language impairment in schizophrenia and its relation with cognitive and ...
Przemysław Adamczyk +4 more
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Rethinking Figurative Language in Autism: What Evidence Can We Use for Interventions?
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Problems with the processing and understanding of figurative language have been systematically observed in individuals on the autism spectrum despite preserved structural language skills.
Mila Vulchanova, Valentin Vulchanov
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Multi-Figurative Language Generation [PDF]
CoRR, 2022 Figurative language generation is the task of reformulating a given text in the desired figure of speech while still being faithful to the original context. We take the first step towards multi-figurative language modelling by providing a benchmark for the automatic generation of five common figurative forms in English.
Lai, Huiyuan, Nissim, Malvina
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Processing figurative language: Evidence from native and non-native speakers of English. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Alkhammash R.
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Figurative language comprehension in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: A meta-analytic review. [PDF]
Autism, 2018 Kalandadze T +3 more
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Figurative language processing in atypical populations: the ASD perspective. [PDF]
Front Hum Neurosci, 2015 Vulchanova M +3 more
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An Analysis of Figurative Languages Used in Lokamase Ceremony
Acitya, 2023 The use of language in human life is very diverse, one of which is figurative language. Figurative language is the use of beautiful words with figurative language created from the author's feelings to give effect by comparing one thing with another ...
Yanto Yanto, Rikardus Nong Siga
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SELECTED SONGS OF “RED” BY TAYLOR SWIFT
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2022 This study aims to explore the types and meanings of figurative language in Taylor Swift’s song lyrics. On the surface level, figurative language cannot be translated literally.
Alya Rizqi Fatikha, Qanitah Masykuroh
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