Metaphor in Idiom Comprehension

Understanding metaphorical comparisons: Beyond similarity.

Sam Glucksberg, Boaz Keysar · Psychological Review · 1990 · 820 citations

Language Studies, Social Psychology, Pragmatics +13

Why many concepts are metaphorical

Raymond W. Gibbs · Cognition · 1996 · 308 citations

Language Studies, Social Psychology, Philosophy Of Language +11

What do idioms really mean?*1

Richard A. Gibbs · Journal of Memory and Language · 1992 · 285 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +4

Why idioms mean what they do.

Raymond W. Gibbs, Nandini Nayak · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1991 · 40 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psychology +15