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Figurative Language

Figurative Language is a linguistic phenomenon within literary and rhetorical discourse whereby expressions are used in a non-literal sense to achieve aesthetic, expressive, or persuasive effects, distinguished from literal language by its reliance on metaphors, similes, and other tropes that convey meanings beyond their denotative significance.

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Parables for the virtual: movement, affect, sensation

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 3.8K citations

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Language, Thought, and Reality.

A. M. Halpern, Benjamin Lee Whorf, John B. Carroll et al. · American Sociological Review · 1956 · 2.9K citations

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Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns.

Allan Paivio, Stephen Madigan · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1968 · 2.8K citations

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Rethinking Linguistic Relativity

Celia Roberts · International Journal of Bilingualism · 1997 · 2.8K citations

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From image descriptions to visual denotations: New similarity metrics for semantic inference over event descriptions

Peter Young, Alice Lai, Micah Hodosh et al. · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2014 · 2.5K citations · Full text

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    Raymond W. Gibbs

    University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

    78 publications · 9.7K citations

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    Gerard J. Steen

    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands

    31 publications · 3.9K citations

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    Sam Glucksberg

    Princeton University, United States

    25 publications · 5.1K citations

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    Ellen Winner

    Boston College, United States

    26 publications · 3.6K citations

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    Rachel Giora

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

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  1. University of California, Santa Cruz

    Santa Cruz, United States

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  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

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  3. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

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  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

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  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

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  7. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

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  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  1. Journal of Pragmatics

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  2. Metaphor and Symbol

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

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  4. Language

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  5. Cognitive Linguistics

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