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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.
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.
- Robyn Carston
- 2018
Metaphors activate these neurons, linking the words we hear and the images they represent for us. This is how metaphors transport us to new ways of looking at a situation, they literally light up our minds. Metaphors offer us a pathway to the visual regions of our brain. They enable us to explain complex concepts, or how we perceive the world ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Mar 24, 2024 · The y-axis, on the other hand, varies depending on the activation of mental imagery or other related non-propositional entities (such as perceptual, emotional and sensorimotor mechanisms): at the top we find metaphors that activate mental imagery (or, in general non-propositional entities), while at the bottom we find metaphors that do not activate mental imagery (Garello and Carapezza, 2023).
