Gender Stereotypes and Figurative Language Comprehension

The paper aims to show how and to what extent social and cultural cues influence figurative language understanding. In the first part of the paper, we argue that social-contextual knowledge is organized in “schemas” or stereotypes, which act as strong bias in speaker’s meaning comprehension. Resear...

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Main Authors: Roberta Cocco, Francesca Ervas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Culturale Humana.Mente 2012-09-01
Series:Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
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Online Access:http://www.humanamente.eu/index.php/HM/article/view/172