The effects of working memory capacity in metaphor and metonymy comprehension in mandarin-english bilinguals’ minds: an fmri study

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    Namely, "what is said is likely cognitively or semantically closer to what is meant in a metonymy than in a metaphor (Michl, 2019, p 100, )", which seems to suggest a systematic difference between metonymies and metaphors. In terms of metonymy processing, the right inferior frontal was found, due to extra cognitive effort, to integrate nonliteral reference into the major meaning of the metaphorical sentence, which was consistent with Rapp et_al`s study. Although some progress has been made in understanding how metaphors are comprehended, the study of how metaphor is neuronally related to metonymy . . .

     

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