Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new look at the continuing debates in
psycholinguistics over what is special about figurative language use. Figurative language …

The past decade has witnessed the development of a significant body of research and
theory concerning the areas of figurative language use and comprehension. The purpose of …

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several
important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought …

This article is a review of the methodology employed and of selected research questions
found in the current experimental psycholinguistic literature on figurative language. A …

The 7 articles in this collection describe new views of figurative language understanding.
These articles differ in the types of figurative language they examine and address different …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Originally published in 1980, this is a book about the psychology of figurative language. It is
however, eclectic and therefore should be of interest to professionals and students in …

Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is
an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension …

This chapter provides a historical sketch of the intellectual background for recent
psychological research on figurative language. The 1970s have seen the renaissance of …

Are literal and nonliteral utterances processed differently or do they follow the same
comprehension routes? Relying on intuition, we might expect them to differ. Recent findings …