Some mental processes are very difficult to describe in words. Tomlinson analysed over 2000 interviews in which published writers talked about their writing processes, and found …
How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …
The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia is a single-volume encyclopedia covering all major and subsidiary areas of linguistics and applied linguistics. The 79 entries provide in-depth …
People with schizophrenia often exhibit difficulties to comprehend figurative expressions, such as irony, proverbs, metaphors and idioms, with a general proneness to neglect the …
Social media constitutes a pervasive communication media that has had a prominent role during global crises. While crisis communication research suggests that individuals use …
D Dobrovol'skij, E Piirainen - 2021 - books.google.com
The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon (conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language …
J Azer, M Alexander - Journal of Marketing Management, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Recent marketing and service research highlights the detrimental impact of negative customer engagement behaviour (CEB) in online social networks. Nevertheless, the extant …
Recent research has indicated that processing different kinds of action verbs, such as those related to arm or leg movements (eg grab, kick), engages regions along the motor strip …
The neural networks associated with processing related pairs of words forming literal, novel, and conventional metaphorical expressions and unrelated pairs of words were studied in a …