Only the tip of the iceberg: Who understands what about metaphor?

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1675-1683

  Blasko, Dawn G ^a  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Figurative language; Individual differences; Language comprehension; Metaphor; Psycholinguistics; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033517664     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)00009-0     Document Type: Article

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