Metaphor and readers' attributions of intimacy

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-94

  Horton, William S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INTIMACY; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; STORYTELLING;

EID: 34247607114     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195945     Document Type: Article

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