BOOKS by Albert N Katz

Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences more books like this

by Herbert L Colston (Editor), Albert N Katz (Editor), Rachel Giora (Contributions by)

This volume contains essays on subjects such as: the centrality of social and cultural factors in language; discourse and social-cultural factors in understanding non-literal language; social factors in the interpretations of verbal irony; and stereotype processing and non-literal language.

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Metaphor Implications more books like this

by Jeffery Scott Mio, PH.D., Albert N Katz (Editor)

Research in metaphor has been dominated by Aristotelian questions of processes in metaphor understanding. Although this areas is important, it leaves unasked Platonic questions of how structures of the mind affect such processes. Moreover, this book argues that there has been relatively little work on how metaphors affect human behaviour. This ...

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The Uses and Processing of Irony and Sarcasm: A Special Issue of Metaphor and Symbol more books like this

by Albert N Katz (Editor)

Topics in this volume include: the uses and processing of irony and sarcasm; irony in talk among friends; children's recognition of allusion and pragmatic insincerity; and the production and processing of verbal irony.

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