Publications

Publication details [#53167]

Balconi, Michela and Simona Amenta. 2010. “A fighter is a lion”. Neuropsychological indexes in comprehending frozen metaphors. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (12) : 3246–3257.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | comprehensibility | meaning | metaphor | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This article addresses the cognitive and linguistic processes underpinning the understanding of frozen metaphors, by exploring both neuropsychological and behavioral data.