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Carbonell, Jaime G. 1982. Metaphor: An inescapable phenomenon in natural-language comprehension. In Lehnert, Wendy G. and Martin H. Ringle, eds. Strategies for natural language processing. L. Erlbaum. pp. 415–434.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

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On the interpretation of metaphor in human natural language understanding: a method of analyzing metaphors based on the existence of a small number of generalized metaphor mappings is proposed; and the analogical mappings underlying metaphors and the implications for inference and memory organization are analyzed.