Metaphor as structure-mapping

By Dedre Gentner, Brian F. Bowdle. 2008

206 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d1762e71a7f985620b4a794f5ae656eae23bd3a9

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Citations in the corpus

• Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010, background): “…across domains, while conventional metaphors are processed via categorization–namely, by placing the target concept within an abstract category evoked by the conventionalized metaphorical meaning of the expressions that is used metaphorically (Gentner & Bowdle, 2001, 2008; Bowdle & Gentner, 2005).”
• Intracranial recordings reveal high-frequency activity in the human temporal-parietal cortex supporting non-literal language processing (2024, background): “The processing of metaphors mainly relies upon analogical reasoning (Willinger et al., 2017) and structural mappings (Gentner and Bowdle, 2008).”