Sam Glucksberg: 2 books
Understanding Figurative Language
From Metaphor to Idioms
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2001
This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves...
Experimental Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication?
First published in 1975, this book is considered one the best of the early books in this field. The task of psycholinguistics is to discover how people produce and comprehend speech. This encompasses virtually all...