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Malgady, Robert G. and Michael G. Johnson. 1980. Measurement of figurative language: Semantic feature models of comprehension and appreciation. In Honeck, Richard P. and Robert R. Hoffman, eds. Cognition and figurative language. L. Erlbaum. pp. 239–258.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

figure of speech, comprehension of | lexical decomposition | psycholinguistics

Annotation

A discussion of current psychological accounts of figurative language comprehension and appreciation, in particular of quantitative models involving one or other version of a feature or componential analysis.