文档介绍：IDIOMS: Processing,
Structure, and Interpretation
IDIOMS: Processing,
Structure, and Interpretation
Edited by
Cristina iari
University of Bologna, Italy
Patrizia Tabossi
University of Ferrara, Italy
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Idioms: processing, structure, and interpretation / edited by Cristina
iari and Patrizia Tabossi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8058-1038-2
1. Idioms. 2. Psycholinguistics. 3. Language acquisition.
4. Semantics. I. iari, C. (Cristina) 11. Tabossi, Patrizia.
1993
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CONTENTS
Foreword vii
P. N. Johnson-Laird
Preface xi
List of Contributors xvii
PART I. IDIOM INTERPRETATION AND THE
LITERAL FIGURATIVE DISTINCTION 1
1. Idiom Meanings and Allusional Content 3
Sam Glucksberg
2. The Place of Idioms in a Literal and Metaphorical World 27
Cristina iari
3. Why Idioms Are Not Dead Metaphors 57
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
4. prehension and Semantic Interpretation of Idioms 79
Giovanni B. Flores d'Arcais
V
Vi CONTENTS
PART 11. ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING
OF IDIOMS 99
5. The Acquisition of Idioms and the Development of Figurative
Competence 101
M. Chiara Levorato
6. Ill-Formedness and Transformability in Portuguese Idioms 129
Teresa Botelho da Silva and Anne Cutler
7. The Activation