How come silence is sweet but sweetness is not silent: A cognitive account of directionality in poetic synaesthesia

Language and Literature

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-140

  Shen, Yeshayahu ^a   Cohen, Michal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive constraints; Cognitive linguistics; Cognitive poetics; Empirical study of literature; Figurative language; Metaphor; Metaphor compreherrsion; Poetic figures; Poetic synaesthesia; Synaesthesia

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248754661     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709800700202     Document Type: Article

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