Productive figurative communication: Conventional metaphors facilitate the comprehension of related novel metaphors

By Paul H. Thibodeau, Frank H. Durgin. 2008

114 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
2. Paul H. Thibodeau
3. Frank H. Durgin
4. Gerard Steen
5. Deirdre Wilson

In Social Psychology

1. Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.
2. Paul H. Thibodeau
3. Frank H. Durgin

Citations in the corpus

• Metaphor Aptness and Conventionality: A Processing Fluency Account (2011, background): “That the power of metaphoric communication resides in their generativity rather than merely their aptness is supported by evidence that metaphoric mappings of even conventional metaphors are alive (Thibodeau & Durgin, 2008).”
• Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “Indeed, a different examination of the Keysar et al. complete set of experimental materials also raised several problems with their stimuli (Thibodeau & Durgin, 2008).”