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Publication details [#14171]

Keysar, Boaz and Bridget Martin Bly. 1999. Swimming against the current: Do idioms reflect conceptual structure? Journal of Pragmatics 31 (12) : 1559–1578.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptual representation | idiom, comprehension of | metaphor

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

On the meaning of idioms in relation to conceptual structures. Speaker intuitions about idiom transparency are shown to vary as a function of perceived meaning of the idiom, illustrating that intuitions about idiom transparency reflect the speaker's interpretive strategies, and not conceptual structures.