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Literal meaning and figurative language
Discourse Processes, 1993 Scholars in many areas of cognitive science adhere to the belief that sentences have well‐defined literal meanings. However, there are at least five ideas as to what constitutes the literal meaning of a sentence. These ideas include viewing literal meaning as conventional meaning, subject‐matter meaning, nonmetaphorical meaning, truth‐conditional ...
Raymond W. Gibbs +3 more
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One Lesson Learned: Frame Language Processing—Literal and Figurative—as a Human Brain Function
Metaphor and Symbol, 2006 What research is conducted on language processing and how that research is conducted are largely determined by researchers' assumptions about the functional organization of mental processes. These have changed significantly since the 1970s when the brain's role in language processing—although acknowledged—was practically inconsequential to ...
Marta Kutas
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, 2016 This thesis investigates the acquisition of the spatial and figurative meanings of five Spanish spatial particles, namely sobre, encima, debajo, bajo and en, by a group of Chinese university students of Spanish as a foreign language at intermediate and upper-intermediate language levels. More specifically, this study aims to answer two questions.
Pablo Encinas Arquero
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Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis
cogl, 1997 Rachel Giora
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GLOBALISATION AND E-ARABIC: THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW LANGUAGE AT THE LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE LEVELS
, 2011 Anissa Daoudi
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