What do idioms really mean?*1

Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of <i>Let Alone</i>

Charles J. Fillmore, Paul Kay, Mary Catherine O’Connor · Language · 1988 · 2.9K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +16

More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor

Thomas Leddy, George Lakoff, M. Turner · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1990 · 1.7K citations

Humanities, Literature, Literary Studies +12

The Invariance Hypothesis: is abstract reason based on image-schemas?

George Lakoff · Cognitive Linguistics · 1990 · 1.4K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +10

The access and processing of idiomatic expressions

David Swinney, Anne Cutler · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1979 · 727 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Computer Science, Linguistics +12

Spilling the beans on understanding and memory for idioms in conversation

Raymond W. Gibbs · Memory & Cognition · 1980 · 545 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +9