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Chen, Evan; Widick, Page; Chatterjee, Anjan – Brain and Language, 2008
The bulk of the research on the neural organization of metaphor comprehension has focused on nominal metaphors and the metaphoric relationships between word pairs. By contrast, little work has been conducted on predicate metaphors using verbs of motion such as "The man fell under her spell." We examined predicate metaphors as compared to literal…
Descriptors: Sentences, Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, Motion
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Teuscher, Ursina; McQuire, Marguerite; Collins, Jennifer; Coulson, Seana – Cognitive Science, 2008
Two experiments investigated whether motion metaphors for time affected the perception of spatial motion. Participants read sentences either about literal motion through space or metaphorical motion through time written from either the ego-moving or object-moving perspective. Each sentence was followed by a cartoon clip. Smiley-moving clips showed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Self Concept, Cartoons