Handling or being the concept: An fMRI study on metonymy representations in coverbal gestures
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.033
Abstract: &NA; In “Two heads are better than one,” “head” stands for people and focuses the message on the intelligence of people. This is an example of figurative language through metonymy, where substituting a whole entity… read more here.
Keywords: metonymy resolution; resolution; metonymy; internal metonymy ... See more keywords
The Effects of Working Memory Capacity in Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Mandarin–English Bilinguals’ Minds: An fMRI Study
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DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12050633
Abstract: This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in metaphoric and metonymic processing in Mandarin–English bilinguals’ minds. It also explored the neural correlations between metaphor and metonymy computations. We adopted an event-related functional… read more here.
Keywords: working memory; bilinguals minds; memory capacity; metonymy ... See more keywords