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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 ...
Mar 31, 2024 · After measuring participants’ ability to form mental imagery using the VVIQ2, the authors measured the ERP waves generated by participants during the comprehension of metaphors: the ability to form imagery, along with the degree of the conventionality of a metaphor, was found to influence the process of metaphor comprehension.
- stefana.garello@unipa.it
The findings revealed that the process of metaphor comprehension was influenced by both the individual’s capacity to generate mental imagery and the level of conventionality of the metaphor: People with high imagery ability tend to routinely recruit sensory motor experiences to facilitate metaphor comprehension and to a greater extent for unfamiliar metaphors than for familiar ones.
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
Aug 1, 2019 · Turning to the theoretical underpinnings of metaphor comprehension, Carston (2010), following Davidson (1978) and Davies (1982–1983), believes that speed of comprehension of metaphors is correlative to whether metaphors are propositional (i.e. conceptual) in nature or not fully so. If we assume that the content of a metaphor is not ‘exhaustively’ and ‘finitely’ propositional, then ...
- Elly Ifantidou, Anna Hatzidaki
- 2019
Mar 8, 2018 · metaphors may be linked to sensorimotor processes). Because studies have almost exclusively examined comprehension rather than metaphor production, we limited our review to the former process. The relationship between cognitive development and met-aphor ability is certainly important; however, to make the present
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Jun 5, 2012 · The object is linguistic meaning. Metaphor obscures its literal and commonplace aspects while permitting a new and subtle understanding to emerge. Thus, metaphor highlights the capacity of language users to create and understand novel linguistic combinations that may be literal nonsense. An advertisement that urges you to “Put a tiger in your ...
