Metaphor comprehension: A computational theory

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 257-266

  Kintsch, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CUES; HUMANS; METAPHOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0034202767     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212981     Document Type: Article

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