Experimental tests of figurative meaning construction

Aspects of Meaning Construction

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 19-32

  Gibbs, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual metonymy; Corpus linguistics; Figurative language; Meaning construction; Metaphor; Metonymy; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistic experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958873502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1075/z.136.04gib     Document Type: Chapter

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