Roosters, robins, and alarm clocks : Aptness and conventionality in metaphor comprehension

By Lara L. Jones, Zachary Estes. 2006

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Philosophy

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/72176bb7ab55825c63335a5b05c10d99b94ebc0b

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Metaphor Aptness and Conventionality: A Processing Fluency Account (2011, methodology): “They were presented with 128 metaphoric sentences (all taken from Jones and Estes, 2006) and instructed to list both salient properties of the vehicle that applied to the topic as well as salient properties of the vehicle that did not.”
• Productive figurative communication: Conventional metaphors facilitate the comprehension of related novel metaphors (2008, methodology): “Evidence that metaphor aptness strongly predicts reading time (Jones & Estes, 2006) suggests that metaphor categories must retain a great deal of structure.”