Abstract:
This paper surveys some of the important trends of the research on metaphor comprehension in the cognitive science area. We examine the semantic theories of the metaphor, some pros and (mostly) cons of the very challenged error-recovery model of metaphor comprehension. We present Lakoff's view that metaphors are conceptual rather than linguistic phenomena; we discuss how theories of other tropes are consistent with metaphor theories; and finally we talk about some attempts to develop a computational theory of the metaphor. 1
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