Gan, WenningWenningGanProf. WEN Zhisheng, EdwardEdwardProf. WEN Zhisheng2023-04-262023-04-262009Educational Research on Foreign Languages & Arts(外語教育與藝術研究), 27, 11-15.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/7785Recent 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.enThe Graded Salience HypothesisThe Space Structuring ModelThe Career of Metaphor HypothesisThe Inhibition / Supp Ression ModelPredication ModelPeer Reviewed Journal Article