Abstract
1. Introduction and Overview 2. Thinking and Speaking Literally 3. Figurative Language Understanding: A Special Process? 4. Metaphor in Language and Thought 5. Understanding Metaphorical Expressions 6. Idiomaticity 7. Metonymy 8. Irony 9. The Poetic Minds of Children 10. Implications and Future Directions.
Keywords
Literal and figurative languageMetonymyIronyMetaphorPoeticsLinguisticsPoetryPsychologyPhilosophy
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Raymond W. Gibbs
(1994).
The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding.
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