Compactness And Conceptual Complexity Of Conventionalized And Creative Metaphors In Italian

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Compactness And Conceptual Complexity Of Conventionalized And Creative Metaphors In Italian

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Pages:: 405–425

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9780585492230_022

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In many cultures, metaphors are used for describing persons, their appearance, attitudes, and personality. The use of figurative language can sometimes reflect the need to maintain standards of politeness, especially when a negative appraisal about someone's behavior, attitudes, or personality is intended. This chapter reports the results of a set of experiments concerning the use of conventionalized and innovative metaphors in persons description. Persons description provides a very interesting field for testing the compactness hypothesis proposed by Ortony. The chapter concludes that the more promising way to operationalize the notion of compactness is in terms of conceptual complexity: people tend to use fairly conventionalized metaphors for describing the behavior, personality, or appearance of someone because they allow the expression of a bundle of different properties in a condensed, single-word format. It lists acknowledgements, references, and notes.

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Sentence Processing: A Crosslinguistic Perspective

Series: Syntax and Semantics, Volume: 31

E-Book ISBN:: 9780585492230

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 1998

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- Languages and Linguistics
  - Morphology & Syntax
  - Psycholinguistics & Language and Cognition

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