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How the context matters. Literal and figurative meaning in the embodied language paradigm. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The involvement of the sensorimotor system in language understanding has been widely demonstrated. However, the role of context in these studies has only recently started to be addressed.
Valentina Cuccio +6 more
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Figurative language is (implicitly) more dynamic and emotionally deeper than literal language
Language and CognitionTwo experiments investigated the nature of the emotional differences between figurative language and literal counterparts. The semantic differential method was used with principal component analysis as a data-driven implicit method for distinguishing ...
Tshering Yanzom Dorji, Frank H. Durgin
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UPF-taln: SemEval 2015 Tasks 10 and 11. Sentiment Analysis of Literal and Figurative Language in Twitter [PDF]
Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2015), 2015 In this paper, we describe the approach used by the UPF-taln team for tasks 10 and 11 of SemEval 2015 that respectively focused on “Sentiment Analysis in Twitter” and “Sentiment Analysis of Figurative Language in Twitter”. Our approach achieved satisfactory results in the figurative language analysis task, obtaining the second best result.
Francesco Barbieri +2 more
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literal and figurative language processing: an event-related potential (ERP) study [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 There are three primary models to deal with literal/non-literal language processing. The first is the indirect access model proposed by Grice (1975) and Searle (1979).
Mohammad Reza Khaleghi +3 more
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Processing Sentences with Literal versus Figurative Use of Verbs: An ERP Study with Children with Language Impairments, Nonverbal Impairments, and Typical Development [PDF]
Behavioural Neurology, 2015 Forty native Italian children (age 6–15) performed a sentence plausibility judgment task. ERP recordings were available for 12 children with specific language impairment (SLI), 11 children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NVLD), and 13 control children. Participants listened to verb-object combinations and judged them as acceptable or unacceptable.
Maria Luisa Lorusso +3 more
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The role of literal meaning in figurative language comprehension: Evidence from masked priming ERP [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2014 The role of literal meaning during the construction of meaning that goes beyond pure literal composition was investigated by combining cross-modal masked priming and ERPs.
Hanna eWeiland +2 more
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, 2022 Figurative language, such as metaphor and irony, has been studied by researchers in a wide variety of fields for the past several decades. A primary goal of this research has been to determine the processes underlying figurative language comprehension (e.g., how the figurative meaning of a metaphor is processed when compared to its literal meaning ...
Stephen Skalicky
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The processing of familiar English L2 phrasal verbs in neutral and biased sentence contexts [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis paper addresses an important psycholinguistic question: whether L2 learners preferentially process phrasal verbs (PVs) literally or figuratively, irrespective of context and proficiency levels.
Jianyao Yu +6 more
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Lingua Montenegrina, 2011 This paper contains a contrastive analysis of different versions of the traditional Bosnian folk poem “Ali-paša na Hercegovini”, with a special emphasis on the newest version, hereby presented to public. In particular, the analysis is aimed at the linguistic aspect of creating the poetic expression, i.e.
Jasmin Hodžić, Jasmin HODŽIĆ
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Praxis Psy, 2017 El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo indagar sobre el lenguaje no verbal, específicamente los gestos, y la adquisición de una segunda lengua a partir de una investigación de neurociencia. La muestra estuvo conformada por treinta adultos de habla hispana que hablan alemán, los que fueron separados a partir del nivel de esta segunda lengua, para que ...
Christopher Srepel, Agustín Ibáñez
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