Publications

Publication details [#44007]

Harris, Richard Jackson, Brian M. Friel and Nolan Rett Mickelson. 2006. Attribution of discourse goals for using concrete- and abstract-tenor metaphors and similes with or without discourse context. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (6) : 863–879.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

figurative meaning, comprehension of | figurative speech | metaphor

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study focuses on the language receiver's attributions of the language producer's intentions in employing various types of figurative language.