A psycholinguistic vision of metaphor

Authors

  • Richard Jackson Harris Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Kansas State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.3.2.150-164

Abstract

The sentences above all have two things in common. They are all semantically anomalous, and, in a reasonable context, they are all perfectly understandable. They are understandable because they are interpreted to be metaphorical.

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Published

1982-10-31

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (1982): Estudos Germânicos

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