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

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 …

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

Abstract discuss some of the experimental evidence on how common ground provides the
context for people's fluency with figurative speech/illustrate how our ability to conceptualize …

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 …

Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of
figurative language that addresses the question," Why don't people just say what they …

Over the course of the past several decades, research on figurative language has been
flourishing in psychology and related fields (for recent reviews, see Cacciari & Glucksberg …

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 …

When people understand expressions that are intended nonliterally, two kinds of meaning
are simultaneously apprehended: the literal meanings of the words themselves and the …

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