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Verb Metaphors as Analogies: Patterns of Meaning Change and the Role of Structure-Mapping in Comprehension

Description:

Metaphor is an important and pervasive phenomenon in language and cognition. The vast majority of psycholinguistic research on metaphor has focused on noun metaphors (e.g., That surgeon is a butcher; That lawyer is a shark), while relatively little has investigated the processing of verb metaphors (e.g., The car limped down...

Keyword:

verb metaphor, language evolution, event knowledge, language processing, and metaphor

Subject:

Cognitive psychology

Creator:

King, Daniel C

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

05/31/2023

Date Created:

2023-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_984614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16537