Literary Metaphor Comprehension and Production: A Unified View

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Author(s): Akira Utsumi (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 18
Source title: Content Generation Through Narrative Communication and Simulation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural University, Japan)and Shin Asakawa (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4775-4.ch010

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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This chapter addresses literary metaphors, which are used in literary works to enrich the meanings and evoke aesthetic effects. The aim of this chapter is to provide a unified view that can explain how literary metaphors are understood and generated. The chapter authors argue that comprehension of various types of literary metaphors involves a process of direct or indirect categorization by integrating and extending existing metaphor theories and empirical findings, in particular the author's metaphor research such as the interpretive diversity theory of nominal metaphors and the indirect categorization theory of predicative metaphors. The chapter authors also apply the unified view of literary metaphor comprehension to metaphor production, and discuss how people generate literary metaphors.

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