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1. Figurative Language Comprehension

   Social and Cultural Influences

   Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz

   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...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Metaphor

   Implications and Applications

   Edited by Jeffery S. Mio, Albert N. Katz

   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...

   Published September 30th 1996 by Psychology Press