PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Illocutionary Act, Locutionary Act, Garden Path Sentence
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Where yesterday is the late closure, gives us a temporal. Psycholinguistics chapter 6: working memory and comprehension people with larger working memory perform better at a variety of complex cognitive tasks. Comprehending figurative language figurative language language that means one thing literally but something different. When these conditions are not present, speech is typically considered odd or socially: metaphor inappropriate ubiquitous features of language apparent ease of comprehension of most metaphors suggest link with process of language comprehension. Metaphors are not just meaningful but often amusing, thought provoking or poignant. Psycholinguistics chapter 6 three main parts of a metaphor topic - tenor vehicle - what is predicated of the tenor ground - implied similarity between tenor and vehicle. When figurative sentences are given in an appropriate context, difference in comprehension time disappears if literal meaning is acceptable, no need to comprehend a figurative meaning creating a new relationship between existing words or concepts conceptual metaphor theory.
