Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent
empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining
the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting
figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory
literature on how people understand figures of speech. Gibbs and
Colston argue that there may not be a single theory or model that
adequately explains both the processes and products of figurative
meaning experience. Experimental research may ultimately be unable
to simply adjudicate between current models in psychology,
linguistics and philosophy of how figurative meaning is
interpreted. Alternatively, the authors advance a broad theoretical
framework, motivated by ideas from 'dynamical systems theory', that
describes the multiple, interacting influences which shape people's
experiences of figurative meaning in discourse. This book details
past research and theory, offers a critical assessment of this work
and sets the stage for a new vision of figurative experience in
human life.
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