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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Figurative Language Comprehension"”.
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The Role Of Imagery And Abstraction In Proverb Comprehension: A Dual-coding Analysis Of Figurative Language
… and Coste, 1980) that a dual coding approach to language representation cannot explain interpretation of figurative language. That claim was based on earlier findings that were interpreted as showing that memory representations of the figurative meanings of proverbs are abstract and …
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CONTEXT EFFECTS IN THE COMPREHENSION AND PRODUCTION OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
… of familiar proverbs following either a figurative discourse context or one of two literal contexts. Materials from Ferretti, Schwint and Katz (2007) were adapted for a cloze task. Data were collected for 42 proverbs from 240 participants. Booklets presented a series of context paragraphs …