Publications

Publication details [#53069]

Xu, Xu. 2010. Interpreting metaphorical statements. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1622–1636.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

abstractness | interpretation | metaphor | simile | topic

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores the interpretation and similarity evaluation of metaphorical statements with abstract versus those with concrete topics, whilst taking into account the two usual linguistic forms of metaphorical statements: nominal metaphor and simile.