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Allbritton, D.W., G. McKoon and Richard J. Gerrig. 1995. Metaphor-based schemas and text representations: Making connections through conceptual metaphors. Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 21 (3) : 612–625. 14 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conceptual metaphor | experimental evidence | metaphor-based schemas | priming | psycholinguistics | text representation

Abstract

Four experiments were conducted to examine the role of metaphor-based schemas in text comprehension and representation. In Experiment 1, schemas facilitated recognition judgements for schema-related sentences that had been presented in a text. Similar facilitation was found for the recognition of individual words in Experiments 2, 3, and 4. The results are interpreted as evidence for the use of metaphor-based schemas to link elements within a text representation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)