Nigel E. Turner

List of John Benjamins publications for which Nigel E. Turner plays a role.

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Turner, Nigel E. and Albert N. Katz 1997 The availability of conventional and of literal meaning during the comprehension of proverbs Pragmatics & Cognition 5:2, pp. 199–233 | Article
The confusion between sentential figurativeness and conventionality found in many of the experiments on figurative language comprehension is here disentangled by factorially crossing the figurativeness of a proverb (determined by discourse context) with conventionality (determined by familiarity… read more