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1 online resource (451 pages) |
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Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders Ser |
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Psychology Library Editions: Speech and Language Disorders Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part I: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives; 1. A Peacock Looks at its Legs: Cognitive Science and Figurative Language; Introduction; The Varieties of Figurative Experience; Figurative Language and General Language Comprehension; The Canon of Compositionality; Abstract Concepts and Mental Images; Semantics and Features; Developmental Trends; Figurative Language and Problem Solving; On To What's New; 2. Historical Notes on Figurative Language; Introduction |
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Intellectual RootsThe Psycholinguistic Era; The Future: Beyond the Information Metaphor; 3. A Philosophical Perspective on the Problems of Metaphor; Introduction: The Prejudice Against Metaphor in the Philosophical Tradition; The Birth of a New Attitude Toward Metaphor; The Problems of Metaphor; The Model of Metaphoric Comprehension; Conclusion: A Suggestion for Future Research; 4. Some Psycholinguistic Aspects of Metaphor; Metaphor: The Standard Definition; Metaphor: An Alternative Definition; Metaphor: Some Issues Concerning Comprehension; Part II: Processing and Representation |
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5. Transformations in Knowing: A Realist View of MetaphorEpistemic Commitments; Metaphoric Comprehension; An lllustrative Experiment; Summary and Prospects; 6. Proverbs, Meaning, and Group Structure; Overview; The Common View of Proverbs; The Literalist Approach; The Psycholinguistic Properties of Proverbs; Empirical Research; Theoretical Considerations; Toward A Conceptual Base Theory; 7. Metaphors and Images: Rating, Reporting, and Remembering; Introduction; Experiment 1; Experiment 2; Experiment 3: A Pilot Study of the Nature of Metaphor Imagery |
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8. Mental Imagery and the Comprehension of Figurative Language: Is There A Relationship?Introduction; Memory for Proverbs; A Study of Imagery and Metaphor; Comparisons with Findings of Harris et al.; Part III: Foundations in Semantic Theory; 9. The Cognitive Dynamics of Synesthesia and Metaphor; Synesthesia; Congruence Dynamics; Metaphor; 10. Measurement of Figurative Language: Semantic Feature Models of Comprehension and Appreciation; Comprehending the Similarity of Dissimilars; Psychological Scaling of Metaphor; Asymmetries in Understanding and Judging Metaphors in Context |
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Some Concluding Remarks11. Toward a Perceptual Theory of Metaphoric Comprehension; Introduction; Some Representative Studies of Comprehension; Some Concluding Remarks; 12. Topic-Vehicle Relations in Metaphor: The Issue of Asymmetry; The Metaphoric Triads Task; Directionality in Metaphor; An Empirical Examination of Metaphoric Asymmetry; Metaphoric Content and Directionality; Implications for Future Research; Appendix: Sample Pictorial Items; Part IV: Developmental Aspects; 13. The Developmental Structure of Figurative Competence; Review of Recent Literature; The Research Program |
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Developmental Results |
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Cognition.
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Figures of speech.
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Psycholinguistics.
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cognition.
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psycholinguistics.
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competence.
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comprehension.
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figures of speech.
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metaphor.
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problem solving.
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psycholinguistics.
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psychology.
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semantic.
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Cognition
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Figures of speech
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Psycholinguistics
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hoffman, Robert R
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| ISBN |
9780429780271 |
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0429780273 |
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9780429780264 |
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0429780265 |
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