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carefully crafted, extended and developed, expressive of a feeling or sensation, highly imagistic, on the other hand. So it may seem that there are two kinds of metaphor, the 'ordinary' and the 'literary', and that we should not expect a single account that applies to both. meaning of the whole.
Aug 1, 2019 · Metaphor interpretation in L2 was explored using a meaning-matching task. Literal paraphrases and emotionally-loaded implicatures were compared. Fewer errors were yielded in comparison to the control but no difference in RT. Same impact of literal and emotional/imagistic meaning on metaphor interpretation.
- Elly Ifantidou, Anna Hatzidaki
- 2019
Dec 16, 2022 · However, it seems plausible to assume that in this case we would not need to go through the literal meaning to reach the metaphorical meaning; on the contrary, consistent with direct access, metaphorical meaning would be the result of a rapid and online contextual modulation, guided by one or more mental images (cf. Carapezza & Garello, 2020 for a hypothesis on the relation between direct ...
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 ...
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
Jun 22, 2017 · That is, there ought to be some special reason for the meaning of metaphor to be couched in imagistic terms, a reason that doesn’t apply as well or as poorly to other speech. There is no one today, I think, who would identify understanding the meaning of a word with the having of a mental image (or “idea”), though this and related ideas did dominate thinking about language for some time.
Mar 24, 2024 · Therefore, metaphors found in the first quadrant, i.e., extended metaphors characterized by an imagistic dimension in which metaphorical meaning is constructed through the use of literal meaning and the relationship between literal and metaphorical meaning is mediated through mental imagery, seem to share the same processes of meaning construction common to other linguistic uses, such as haiku ...
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Jun 22, 2018 · 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 ...
