A psycholinguistic vision of metaphor

Richard Jackson Harris

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The sentences above all have two things in common. They are all semantically anomalous, and, in a reasonable context, they are all perfectly understandable. They are understandable because they are interpreted to be metaphorical.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837X.3.2.150-164

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