The Impact of Metaphors on the Comprehension of Written Texts

by Paula Morgado

Metaphor has been the subject of interest in a wide range of disciplines such as Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric, Semantics, Linguistics, since centuries past. In the Aristotelian tradition, metaphor was confined to the rhetorical and literary sphere and was understood as a process of transfer by which the name of one thing is assigned to another (Aristotle, 1959). However, with the advent of the cognitive sciences in the last decade of the 20th century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6206298469
• ISBN13: 9786206298465
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"