Comment comprenons-nous les métaphores?

Annee Psychologique

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 447-492

  Gineste, Marie Dominique ^a   Scart Lhomme, Véronique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Comprehension of metaphors; Context; Emergent representations; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005160336     PISSN: 00035033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3406/psy.1999.28517     Document Type: Article

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