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Hoorn, Johannes Ferdinand.

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Metaphor and the brain: Behavioral and psychophysiological research into literary metaphor processing.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Metaphor and the brain: Behavioral and psychophysiological research into literary metaphor processing./
Author:	Hoorn, Johannes Ferdinand.
Description:	352 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: B, page: 5988.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12B.
Subject:	Literature, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3037801
ISBN:	9780493507415

Metaphor and the brain: Behavioral and psychophysiological research into literary metaphor processing.
Hoorn, Johannes Ferdinand.

Metaphor and the brain: Behavioral and psychophysiological research into literary metaphor processing. - 352 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: B, page: 5988.

Thesis (Dr.)--Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), 1997.

Evaluates the comparison, anomaly, and interaction theory of metaphor processing, which were formalized and then tested with novel noun-noun metaphors, using feature-elicitation tests, reaction-time measurements, and electroencephalogram recordings. First, literal, metaphoric, and anomalous expressions were distinguishable only on the number of intersecting features (associations) judged literal for one noun and figurative for the other (e.g., 'give birth' in the sea is a belly). Second, RTs to anomaly judgments were fastest (quick no-decisions), whereas judgments for metaphor were marginally slower than for literal. Third, N400 for anomalies was highest, and for metaphors higher than for literal expressions. Neither theory could explain these results. Introduces a new 'multiple-meanings theory,' explaining that the nouns of metaphors evoke more intersecting features of a special quality than literal or anomalous communications. The intersection of metaphors coincides with those features that have mixed qualities: A 'common' descriptive meaning for one noun (literal use) and a (personalized) symbolic or emblematic meaning for the other noun (figurative use). This multiple-meanings theory is modeled in the Race model of Metaphor Processing (RMP) in which both nouns of an expression elicit a mix of features that are indexed as literal and/or figurative (fuzzy sets). In the RMP, the nouns of an expression initially are checked on instance-category (mis)matches. If nouns match, as in this sea is an ocean, calculating the pure literal intersection is facilitated; if they do not, the N400 is evoked and calculating the (mixed) literal-figurative intersection is facilitated. Subsequently, the pure literal intersection races in parallel the mixed literal-figurative intersection to satisfy threshold value. Expressions are checked for a minimal size of the pure literal intersection, synchronously to a check for the minimal size of the mixed literal-figurative intersection. If an expression remains below these minima, it is an anomaly. If the expression exceeds one of the minima, the next check is whether the minimum for the mixed literal-figurative intersection is met. If it is not, the expression is literal; if it is, the expression is a metaphor.

ISBN: 9780493507415Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018152
Literature, General.

Metaphor and the brain: Behavioral and psychophysiological research into literary metaphor processing.
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