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Publication details [#9499]
Tourangeau, Roger and Robert J. Sternberg. 1982. Understanding and appreciating metaphors. Cognition 11 : 203–244. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal WWW
Annotation
The comparison-view, the anomaly-view, and the interactive view of metaphors are considered, and a new theory, the domains-interaction view is developed. The questions answered are: What are metaphors? How are they understood? What makes a good metaphor?