Figurative Language and Thought

by Cristina Cacciari and Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.

Book Overview

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195109635
• ISBN13: 9780195109634
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"