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- As a result, good metaphors help the reader understand something they otherwise might not have. In On Writing, master storyteller Stephen King notes this ability of metaphors to improve comprehension when he says that they enable people to “see an old thing in a new and vivid way.”
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Apr 8, 2018 · The comprehension of metaphors (CoM) requires activating a broader, more diffuse range of semantic associations to enable the combination of weakly related concepts to a novel and appropriate metaphoric expressions (Bowdle and Gentner, 2005).
Nov 28, 2017 · In On Writing, master storyteller Stephen King notes this ability of metaphors to improve comprehension when he says that they enable people to “see an old thing in a new and vivid way.”...
Mar 8, 2018 · Over the past four decades, a substantial body of theoretical work and psychological studies directed at the process of metaphor comprehension has emerged. This work lies at the interface of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy.
In On Writing, master storyteller Stephen King notes this ability of metaphors to improve comprehension when he says that they enable people to “see an old thing in a new and vivid...
Mar 8, 2016 · Metaphor comprehension is a highly complex process, subject to processes of change and development, and requiring high levels of abstraction. The debate in recent years has mainly centred on the consideration of metaphors as analogies or as “class-inclusion assertions.”
- Nuria Carriedo, Antonio Corral, Pedro R. Montoro, Laura Herrero, Patricia Ballestrino, Iraia Sebasti...
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In this study the influence of the amount of metaphor in written language upon reading comprehension is analyzed. Subjects in this study, 190 sixth graders, read two passages, relating the same events, but differing in the amount of metaphorical language used. Comprehension was measured by means of a cloze test.
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Implications for Metaphor Comprehension Research on metaphor comprehension often treats metaphor as an undifferentiated type of figurative language. How-ever, a number of theorists have recently argued that meta-phor is pluralistic, and that the manner in which a metaphor is comprehended may depend on its level of conventionality
