Familiarity, context, and the distinction between literal and nonliteral language
Six experiments investigating the relationship of familiarity and context to the processing of metaphor are presented. Experiment 1 compares time to understand sets containing idiom or metaphor targets following 1-2 sentence contexts in four conditions: NONLITERAL, where the context was completed by...
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| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1213 |