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Tourangeau, Roger; Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
The three dominant views of metaphor emphasize comparison anomaly or dissimilarity, and a somewhat vaguer notion that combines aspects of the first two, called conceptual interaction. In all three views, a central consideration as to the aptness of the metaphor is the similarity of the objects linked by the metaphor (tenor and vehicle). The exact…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Figurative Language, Higher Education, Identification (Psychology)
