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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Novel metaphors"”.
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Familiarity, context, and the distinction between literal and nonliteral language
… different context. In Experiment 2, sets of dead metaphors replaced the idiom sets, and the metaphor sets had novel metaphors. Experiment 3 matched the targets in each condition for overall printed word frequency, to investigate whether word familiarity was interacting with type of usage. It also …
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Figuration & Frequency: A Usage-Based Approach to Metaphor
… thereof. The dissertation argues that metaphors, as conventionalized cognitive structures, are themselves highly influenced by frequency effects, and that metaphorical cross-domain mappings exist in the mind as conceptual schemata. Two corpus-based methods for assessing the frequency of …