What's Special About Figurative Language in Emotional Communication?

By Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., John S. Leggitt, Elizabeth A. Turner. 2002

106 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Effects of "literariness" on emotions and on empathy and reflection after reading (2016, background): “Yet, in a preliminary study to test this hypothesis, no difference was found between novel and conventional metaphorical expressions; both were equally seen by participants as reflecting more intense emotion than literal statements (Gibbs et al., 2002).”
• The emotional weight of I love you in multilinguals' languages (2008, background): “The other challenge facing the L2/LX users is that of potentially incomplete conceptual representations of emotion words and scripts (see infra) and also of metaphor and other figures of speech that play a crucial role in emotional communication between native speakers (Gibbs et al., 2002). Gibbs et”