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1. • • Many people report experiencing mental imagery (visual, auditory, and/or kinetic) when they comprehend verbal metaphors.
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     Figurative language, mental imagery, and pragmatics.

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   Mar 31, 2024 · What they do show is the activation of mental imagery in response to certain types of metaphors (mostly novel metaphors). However, they do not show what role mental imagery plays in this process, nor do they show whether it plays a fundamental role in understanding and interpreting metaphors.

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   Sperber and Wilson [6] deny that mental imagery plays a role in metaphor compre-hension or constitute its distinctiveness. Indeed, even literal uses can activate mental imagery, as with haikus—even if mental imagery continues to be reduced to conceptual and propositional formats.

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   Aug 1, 2018 · I conclude that mental imagery is not an essential component in the comprehension of language, whether literal or metaphorical, but it is often automatically activated in the minds of hearers or readers as a by-product of their linguistic and pragmatic processes.

   • Author: Robyn Carston

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   The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between visual imagery and metaphor, highlighting the historical neglect of this relationship in philosophy and cognitive science and exploring the reasons behind this neglect in theoretical and empirical studies.

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   May 9, 2024 · It is understood that the figure of speech, such as metaphor, simile, and personification, uses mental imagery that imaginatively describes the perceptual experience (Carston, 2018). But then, mental imagery is not considered an essential component of language production and comprehension.

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   Mar 31, 2024 · 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...

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   Does metaphor activate mental imagery?

   • Carston acknowledges that extended and complex metaphors whose comprehension requires recourse to literal meaning also activate mental imagery.

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   Does mental imagery play a role in the processing of metaphors?

   • However, it also does not completely rule out the possibility that mental imagery plays a role in the processing of metaphors, because it seems to be activated and has an effect on the interlocutors—they make certain features more salient, “setting things in front of their eyes” and make the content of the metaphor easier to remember.

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   Can mental imagery be activated?

   • In this type of metaphor, mental imagery can be activated. Carston develops her proposal within the framework of proposition theories of metaphor, which are characterized by a certain skepticism toward mental imagery and, in general, non-propositional entities.

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   Is imagery a characteristic feature of metaphors?

   • 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.

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   Do people rely on mental images to understand image metaphors?

   • Gibbs and Bogdanovich thus suggest that people rely on their mental images of the source domain rather than general, non-imagistic knowledge about the same domain when understanding image metaphors, providing evidence for the role of mental imagery in understanding at least this type of metaphor.

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   Do metaphors have “metaphorical meaning”?

   • Inthisparagraph,wewillseehow,followedby[20,22],whoacknowledgethe inseparable relationship between metaphors and mental imagery, or more generally non-propositional entities, deny that metaphors have “metaphorical meaning.” For this reason, the authors argue, they must be excluded from the realm of pragmatic analysis.

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9. www.frontiersin.org › journals › psychologyIs metaphor a natural kind? - Frontiers

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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 ...