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Publication details [#51593]

Katz, Albert N. and Karen A. Hussey. 2009. Perception of the Use of Metaphor by an Interlocutor in Discourse. Metaphor and Symbol 24 (4) : 203–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

e-mail communication | gender | identity negotiation | metaphor | perception2

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper examines how internet interactants perceive metaphor use. The finding that in particular novel metaphor use points to interlocutors' male identity, appears to be consistent with the idea that metaphor usage implies speaker identity and intentions.