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Publication details [#64777]

Littlemore, Jeannette, Bodo Winter, Paula Pérez Sobrino, David Houghton and Jinfang Shi. 2018. What makes a good metaphor? A cross-cultural study of computer-generated metaphor appreciation. Metaphor and Symbol 33 (2) : 101–122.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

computer communication system | crosscultural context | metaphor | persuasion | understanding

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Computers are now capable to automatically create metaphors. Some automatically created metaphors are better received than others. This paper displayed participants a set of “A is B” kind metaphors that were either created by humans or taken from the Twitter account “MetaphorIsMyBusiness” (@MetaphorMagnet), which is related to a wholly automated metaphor generator.