The role of suppression in figurative language comprehension

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1619-1630

  Gernsbacher, Morton Ann ^a   Robertson, Rachel R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Figurative language; Language comprehension; Metaphor comprehension; Psycholinguistics; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033517660     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-2166(99)00007-7     Document Type: Article

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