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Mar 31, 2024 · Abstract. This chapter explores the complicated relationship between mental imagery and metaphors, examining their historical connection and the claim that imagery is a characteristic feature of metaphors. In examining the discourse of metaphor over the past century, the focus is on the question of whether mental imagery, or “non ...
- Metaphor and Mental Imagery: The Visibility of Figurative ...
In this chapter, we will deal with a third parameter: mental...
- Metaphor and Mental Imagery: The Visibility of Figurative ...
In this chapter, we will deal with a third parameter: mental imagery.1 The relation-ship between mental imagery and metaphor has a long history and imagery has often been identified as the distinctive feature of metaphorical usages. As ([13], p. 114— my translation) writes, “metaphor is a kind of borderline case in which an utterance.
Dec 4, 2023 · Metaphors are feelings, experiences and emotions wrapped up into words, and are among the most powerful tools in any poet’s toolbox. They’ve been used for centuries to express complex ideas and to bring colour and feeling to words. Metaphors allow readers to use their imaginations to shift between thought processes and realities.
Apr 1, 2022 · Metaphors are not special to poetry, and not all poems are centered on them, and some contain none, e.g., Sparrow’s poem below. But, many – perhaps most – do, and poems are a major source of novel metaphors that enter the language, e.g., “climate of opinion” which Auden wrote in his poem in memory of Freud; the phrase peaked later (see Google ngram).
Nov 17, 2009 · Abstract. We report the findings from three studies examining the role of mental imagery in interpreting poetic metaphor, specifically image metaphors that express mappings of concrete perceptual images from source domains to dissimilar target domains. The first study showed that ordinary readers interpret image metaphors by mapping concrete ...
- Raymond W. Gibbs, Jody Bogdonovich
- 1999
Aug 1, 2018 · ABSTRACT. Many people report experiencing mental imagery (visual, auditory, and/or kinetic) when they comprehend verbal metaphors. The question whether imagery is merely an incidental side-effect of processes of metaphor understanding or plays a key role in comprehension remains unresolved, with diametrically opposed views expressed among psychologists, philosophers, and literary theorists.
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Dec 16, 2022 · Abstract. In this paper we will discuss how pragmatics (from Grice to Relevance theorists) has considered the relationship between mental imagery and metaphors and review evidence pointing towards an involvement of mental images in metaphor comprehension. We will argue that pragmatics has had the tendency to underestimate the importance of this ...
