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How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm

How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm

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How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm

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How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm

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United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2014-12, Vol.9 (12), p.e115381-e115381

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English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

The involvement of the sensorimotor system in language understanding has been widely demonstrated. However, the role of context in these studies has only recently started to be addressed. Though words are bearers of a semantic potential, meaning is the product of a pragmatic process. It needs to be situated in a context to be disambiguated. The aim...

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How the Context Matters. Literal and Figurative Meaning in the Embodied Language Paradigm

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1639494472

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1639494472

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0115381

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