On Choosing the Vehicles of Metaphors: Referential Concreteness, Semantic Distances, and Individual Differences  

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Katz, Albert N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Memory and Language (Full Text) vol. 28 no. 4 (Aug. 1989), page 486-499.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JML/28 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Participants were given sentence frames (e.g., Chemistry is the - of science). Their task was to select, from a set of alternatives, a vehicle which would make for a comprehensible and aesthetically pleasing metaphor. The vehicles chosen by the participants to best complete the metaphor were those moderately distant from the topic, both on a measure of domain-relevant distance (similarity between conceptual domains) and on a measure of instance-specific distance (similarity that crosscut domain distinctions). Moreover, participants preferred to complete metaphors with vehicles (I) from referentially concrete domains and (2) closer to the topic on domain-relevant distance. Finally, choice of vehicle differed as a function of analogic reasoning ability but not of imagery differences, suggesting the observed concreteness effects were not due to imagery processes.

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