Herbert L Colston: 2 books
by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Herbert L. Colston
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of...
by Herbert L. Colston
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?' This research empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly,...