Search results for "Metaphor and metonymy"

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Deliberate use of metaphor and metonymy as mnemonic devices for identification in a non-linguistic modality

2020

Linguistic modalityMetaphor and metonymymedia_common.quotation_subjectIdentification (biology)ArtMnemonicLinguisticsmedia_common
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Beyond language: Metaphor and metonymy in comics storytelling

2008

Metaphor and metonymyLiterature and Literary Theorybusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectArtComicsbusinessLinguisticsStorytellingmedia_common
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Differentiating among pragmatic uses of words through timed sensicality judgments

2013

Pragmatic and cognitive accounts of figurative language posit a difference between metaphor and metonymy in terms of underlying conceptual operations. Recently, other pragmatic uses of words have been accounted for in the Relevance Theory framework, such as approximation, described in terms of conceptual adjustment that varies in degree and direction with respect to the case of metaphor. Despite the theoretical distinctions, there is very poor experimental evidence addressing the metaphor/metonymy distinction, and none concerning approximation. Here we used meticulously built materials to investigate the interpretation mechanisms of these three phenomena through timed sensicality judgments.…

experimental pragmaticsMetonymyMetaphor and metonymyRelevance theoryMetaphorInterpretation (philosophy)media_common.quotation_subjectPragmaticsmetaphorLiteral and figurative languageLinguisticsComprehensionfigurative languagesensicality judgmentsPsychologyloose useOriginal Research ArticlePsychologypragmaticsGeneral Psychologymedia_commonFrontiers in Psychology
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