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Interpreting Figurative Language Expressions

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2009
Interpretations of figurative language expressions were compared in matched samples of 28 language/learning-disabled (LLD) and 28 academically achieving (non-LLD) adolescents. LLD adolescents performed significantly poorer than their non-LLD age peers.
W A, Secord, E H, Wiig
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Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language

Journal of Consumer Research, 1996
A rhetorical figure can be defined as an artful deviation in the form taken by a statement. Since antiquity dozens of figures have been cataloged, ranging from the familiar (rhyme, pun) to the obscure (antimetabole). Despite the frequent appearance of rhetorical figures in print advertisements, their incorporation into advertising theory and research ...
McQuarrie, Edward F, Mick, David Glen
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Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage

2021
Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and usage from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective.
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Figurative Thought and Figurative Language, Cognitive Psychology of

2001
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

2018
Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson
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Figurative Language in Emotion Expressions

2018
This paper examines the use of figurative language in expressing emotions in social media. Based on the analysis of 300 posts from Weibo.com, we argue that there is a close interaction between figurative language and emotion. It is found that 27% of the posts contain figurative devices such as metaphor, simile, rhetorical questions, and irony.
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Figurative Language

2013
Tracey Ward, Raphael Bernier, Cora Mukerji, Danielle Perszyk, James C. McPartland, Ellen Johnson, Susan Faja, Maureen Nevers, Thomas Frazier, Patricia Howlin, Sarah Savage, Thomas Zane, Traci Lanner, Michelle Myers, Ernst VanBergeijk, Samantha Huestis, Nirit Bauminger-Zviely, Peter Doehring, Guus Voorst, Kelly Macy, Jennifer M. Kwon, Edward McNulty, S. Michael Chapman, Michael J. Crowley, Allison Bean, Susan Hyman, Lawrence David Scahill, Lorna Wing, A. Charles Catania, John Thorne, Usha Kini, Maura Moyle, Claire Plowgian, Francesca Happé, Jane Case-Smith, Lauren Schmitt, Moira Lewis, Mary Jane Weiss, Jan Van der Rutger Gaag, Hillary Hurst, Laura Bonazinga, Diane R. Paul, Francesca Happé, Carolyn A. Doyle, Christopher J. McDougle, Kate S. Perri, Marcel Moran, Kimberly Stigler, Christopher J. McDougle, Susan Hyman, Margaret St. John, David Hessl, Andrea Schneider, Juli Katon, Hillary Hurst, Nirit Bauminger-Zviely, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Nicole Rinehart, Peter Enticott, John Bradshaw, Mark Palmieri, Robert LaRue, John Molteni, Robert LaRue, Mark Palmieri, Patricia Prelock, Ralph-Axel Müller, Robert LaRue, Shaunessy Egan, Dawn Hendricks, Katherin C. Holman, Kristen D’Eramo, Susan Faja, Danielle Perszyk   +73 more
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Figurative Language and Figurative Thought: A Review

1998
Abstract Imagine a race of creatures with the head of a human and the body of a light-house. As far as I am aware no such creature exits, and there is no noun, in any language, to label that race. And yet we know that people can, with little effort, create such concepts.
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Figurative Language

2006
Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston
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Figurative Language I

2017
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