Research in metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this areas is important, it leaves unasked Platonic questions of how structures of the mind affect such processes. Moreover, this book argues that there has been relatively little work on how metaphors affect human behaviour. This work is dedicated to an empirical examination of how metaphors affect human behaviour and understanding. It is divided into four sections including metaphor and pragmatics, clinical uses of metaphor, metaphor and politics, and other applications of...
Research in metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this areas is important, it leaves ...
This volume contains essays on subjects such as: the centrality of social and cultural factors in language; discourse and social-cultural factors in understanding non-literal language; social factors in the interpretations of verbal irony; and stereotype processing and non-literal language.
This volume contains essays on subjects such as: the centrality of social and cultural factors in language; discourse and social-cultural factors in u...
Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. These influences include gender, cultural differences, economic status, and inter-group effects, among others. The effects these influences have on people's use, comprehension, and even processing of...
Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical stu...
Research on metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this area is important, it leaves unasked Platonic questions of how structures of the mind affect such processes. Moreover, there has been relatively little work on how metaphors affect human behavior. Although there are numerous postdictive or speculative accounts of the power of metaphors to affect human behavior in particular areas, such as clinical or political arenas, empirical verification of these accounts has been sparse. To fill this void, the editors have compiled...
Research on metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this area is important, it leaves u...
