Jr. Raymond W. Gibbs’s scientific contributions

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Publications (3)


Interpreting Figurative Meaning
  • Book

June 2012

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Jr Raymond W. Gibbs

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Herbert L. Colston

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of speech. Gibbs and Colston argue that there may not be a single theory or model that adequately explains both the processes and products of figurative meaning experience. Experimental research may ultimately be unable to simply adjudicate between current models in psychology, linguistics and philosophy of how figurative meaning is interpreted. Alternatively, the authors advance a broad theoretical framework, motivated by ideas from 'dynamical systems theory', that describes the multiple, interacting influences which shape people's experiences of figurative meaning in discourse. This book details past research and theory, offers a critical assessment of this work and sets the stage for a new vision of figurative experience in human life.



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... Given the distinction between literal and metaphorical meanings (Carroll, 2008), the comprehension of figurative language requires readers to go beyond the surface structure of a sentence to access its intended connotation (Gibbs & Colston, 2012). How figurative meanings are processed and mentally represented remains a topic of ongoing debate within cognitive linguistics. ...

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Masked priming effects on Chinese EFL learners’ metaphor comprehension: an ERP study
Interpreting Figurative Meaning
  • Citing Book
  • June 2012

... Since providing complete references for these aspects of phraseological research would exceed the scope of this article, the reader is referred to recent review articles of psycholinguistic and computational phraseology, cf. Gibbs and Colston (2007), Häcki Buhofer (2007), Heid (2007 Heid ( , 2008), Moon (2007) and Sailer (2007). The following list gives an overview of the phenomena commonly regarded as MWEs. ...

Psycholinguistic aspects of phraseology: American tradition: Ein internationales Handbuch der zeitgenössischen Forschung
  • Citing Chapter
  • January 2007

... These are all very frequent, as they all constitute a part of the stopwords from NLTK's corpus package (https://www.nltk.org/_modules/nltk/corpus.html; last accessed on 21 December 2021). When present in utterances, they often manifest the underlying image schemata well known from the Conceptual Metaphor Theory first popularized by Lakoff and Johnson in [54] and further described in detail by other authors, for example by Gibbs in [55]. Admittedly, the choice of the words from the outside of the major parts of speech category is subjective and could be made differently. ...

Chapter 7 Image schema
  • Citing Chapter
  • September 2006