Differentiating among pragmatic uses of words through timed sensicality judgments: Metaphor, metonymy and approximation

Pragmatic and cognitive accounts of figurative language posit a difference between metaphor and metonymy in terms of underlying conceptual operations. Recently, other pragmatic uses of words have been accounted for in the Relevance Theory framework, such as approximation, described in terms of conce...

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Main Authors: Valentina eBambini, Marta eGhio, Andrea eMoro, Petra B. eSchumacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00938/full