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Publication details [#7288]

Ortony, Andrew, Diane L. Schallert, Ralph E. Reynolds and Stephen J. Antos. 1978. Interpreting metaphors and idioms: Some effects of context on comprehension. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 17 (4) : 465–477.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | expectation | idiom, comprehension of | metaphor, comprehension of

Annotation

Report of investigations showing that the comprehension of figurative and literal uses of language are essentially similar; differences in time needed to comprehend can be accounted for in terms of contextually generated expectations.