{"pk":32316,"title":"The Role of Semantic Similarity in the Comprehension of Metaphor","subtitle":null,"abstract":"According to the comparison view, preexisting similarities between the constituent terms of a metaphorical sentence are an important source of information for generating a figurative meaning. The interaction approach, by contrast, claims that similarity is not an antecedent but a product of comprehension. We shall argue, however, that each of these approaches is too narrow to provide a complete and exhaustive account of metaphor comprehension. Instead, both theories point out to two different but complementary cognitive processes. We present three experiments that support the theoretical distinction between <i>analysis</i>-based vs. <i>synthesis</i>-based processes in the comprehension of metaphor.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5216k0j8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matthias","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nueckles","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology","department":""},{"first_name":"Dietmar","middle_name":"","last_name":"Janetzko","name_suffix":"","institution":"Psychology Department, Columbia University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1997-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32316/galley/23381/download/"}]}