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Publication details [#23014]
Gibbs, Raymond W. 1986. Skating on thin ice: Literal meaning and understanding idioms in conversation. Discourse Processes 9 (1) : 17–30. 
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Article in journal
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English
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On the basis of two experiments G. argues that people do not process the complete literal or compositional interpretations of idioms, but that they are rather biased toward interpreting literal uses of idiomatic expressions conventionally, as idioms.