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Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of figurative...

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of figurative...

The multifaceted nature of idioms has among its consequences, the fact that it is virtually impossible for any single approach or methodology to fully capture it. Moreover, current knowledge of these expressions is such that the picture emerging from their study is still rather fragmentary. Both aspects are reflected in this book, and while linguistic, computational, psychological and neuropsychological approaches are all present -- providing an interdisciplinary, cognitive science perspective in the study of idioms -- no attempt has been made to force the different trends of research into a...