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Metaphor comprehension models in the direct access view
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Date Issued
2009
Citation
Educational Research on Foreign Languages & Arts(外語教育與藝術研究), 27, 11-15.
Type
Peer Reviewed Journal Article
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of p sycholinguistic experiments demonstrating
that people can often understand the figurative interpretations of metaphors without necessarily having to first analyze and reject the literalmeanings. A s such, the present paper gives a critical review of these directmodels of metaphor comprehension in the light of their respective claims and supporting psycholinguistic evidence.
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