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  1. The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought offers the most comprehensive collec-tion of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has ever been published. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture, and artistic expres-sion.

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  2. Dec 15, 2020 · Metaphor production and interpretation are intricately connected: the former has the latter as its ostensive target; however, interpretation processes can trigger new metaphor formulations...

    • Andreas Musolff
  3. What is metaphor, and how does it work? The concept of metaphor was established by Aristotle in his Rhetoric and Poetics as a feature of language which is used by all people, involves a cognitive process, and has a special role to play in effective speech and poetry.

  4. This finding and the evidence of elaborate metaphor interpretations lead to culture-specific motivations of variation in metaphor interpretation (as well as in metaphor production), specifically with regard to the frequency and distribution patterns of source concepts.

    • Andreas Musolff
  5. Apr 15, 2014 · Responses were spoken aloud in the scanner, recorded, and later coded for accuracy and creative quality. The present research had two goals: (1) to provide a first look at the neural correlates of metaphor production, and (2) to determine what brain regions are related to the creativity of responses.

    • Mathias Benedek, Roger E. Beaty, Emanuel Jauk, Karl Koschutnig, Andreas Fink, Paul J. Silvia, Beate ...
    • 2014
  6. Results show that the metaphor marker ‘so’ stimulated metaphor production. Likes for previously posted metaphorical slogans did not affect the creation of a metaphor. We found a correlation between the actual and self-perceived creativity of the co-created slogans.

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  8. By highlighting significant variation, both data sets put in question the standard theory model of ‘automatic’ metaphor processing and extension. Instead, they indicate a strong production element in metaphor interpretation – and of interpretive aspects in metaphor production.