Psycholinguistic comments on metaphor identification

Beardsley, M. (1976) ‘Metaphor and Falsity’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 35: 218-222.

Britton, B. (1994) ‘Understanding Expository Text: Building Mental Structures to Induce Insights’, in M. Gernsbacher (ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics, pp. 641-698. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Gibbs, R.W., Jr (1994) The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Glenberg, A. (1997) ‘What Is Memory For?’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20: 1-55.

Kintsch, W. (1974) The Representation of Meaning in Memory. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lakoff, G. (1987) Women, Fire and Dangerous Things. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Levin, S. (1977) The Semantics of Metaphor. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Robbins, T. (1984) Jitterbug Perfume. New York: Bantam.

Semino, E. , Heywood, J. and Short, M. (ms.) ‘Methodological Problems in the Analysis of Metaphors in a Corpus of Conversations about Cancer’.

Shannon, B. (1993) The Representational and the Presentational. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Steen, G. (1999) ‘From Linguistic to Conceptual Metaphor in Five Steps’, in R.W. Gibbs Jr and G.J. Steen (eds) Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics, pp. 57-77. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Steen, G. (2002) ‘Towards a Procedure for Metaphor Identification’, Language and Literature 11(1): 17-33.