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Henly, Anne S.

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Lexical processes in metaphor comprehension.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lexical processes in metaphor comprehension./
Author:	Henly, Anne S.
Description:	105 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: B, page: 3190.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06B.
Subject:	Psychology, Cognitive. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3136471
ISBN:	0496836692

Lexical processes in metaphor comprehension.
Henly, Anne S.

Lexical processes in metaphor comprehension. - 105 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: B, page: 3190.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2004.

Despite the fundamental role they play in language comprehension, words are notoriously ambiguous. The meaning a word conveys varies greatly depending on any number of factors. Although there is a large research literature on how listeners determine the contextually appropriate meaning of a word, much of this work focuses on homonyms. This dissertation addresses this question from the perspective of metaphor comprehension. How do listeners determine the meaning of a noun used as a metaphor vehicle? For example, if I said, "My lawyer is a shark," I would not mean that he has gills and a triangular fin on his back, but that he is a cunning legal advocate. The research presented here investigates how and when listeners identify those aspects of a noun's meaning that the speaker intends to convey.

ISBN: 0496836692Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017810
Psychology, Cognitive.

Lexical processes in metaphor comprehension.
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520 $a Despite the fundamental role they play in language comprehension, words are notoriously ambiguous. The meaning a word conveys varies greatly depending on any number of factors. Although there is a large research literature on how listeners determine the contextually appropriate meaning of a word, much of this work focuses on homonyms. This dissertation addresses this question from the perspective of metaphor comprehension. How do listeners determine the meaning of a noun used as a metaphor vehicle? For example, if I said, "My lawyer is a shark," I would not mean that he has gills and a triangular fin on his back, but that he is a cunning legal advocate. The research presented here investigates how and when listeners identify those aspects of a noun's meaning that the speaker intends to convey.
520 $a The experiments use cross-modal priming to examine the time-course of activation for semantic features of a noun used metaphorically and literally. The first experiment examines activation for features of the noun's literal meaning that are inconsistent with its metaphoric meaning. The second experiment investigates the role of cognitive resources in metaphor interpretation by examining how demands on working memory affect lexical processing during comprehension. The third experiment examines activation for metaphor-relevant features of meaning. More specifically, I compare activation for features of the vehicle's literal meaning that are relevant to the ground with activation for emergent features of the ground, i.e., those that are not literal features of the metaphor topic or vehicle but emerge out of their interaction.
520 $a Contrary to the predictions of context-independent models of lexical access and theories of metaphor comprehension, I found no evidence that metaphor-inconsistent features of a noun were initially activated and then subsequently suppressed. Rather, my results show an activation pattern consistent with immediate selective access to metaphor-relevant features. Moreover, the cognitive load effects indicate that lexical access is not an automatic process but depends on general cognitive resources. These findings implicate the recruitment of higher-level sources of knowledge at the earliest stages of lexical processing, suggesting sentence comprehension is a continuous process of semantic integration across the utterance context.*
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