It is generally accepted that we store representations of individual words in our mental
lexicon. There is growing agreement that the lexicon also contains formulaic language (How …

Can lawyers be sharks, can jobs literally be jails, and can dogs fly across lawns? Such
metaphors create novel categories that enable us to characterize the topic of interest. These …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively.
Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered …

In this study I lest the prevalent Claims among contemporary psycholinguists that
understanding metaphor does not involve a special process, and that it is essentially …

'All right,'said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the
tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.'Well …

Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by
native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively (at the …

The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon
(conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language …

Idiomatic phrases differ in their degree of analyzability. Some idioms are highly
decomposable with the meanings of their parts contributing independently to their overall …

This study investigated the on‐line processing strategies used by a sample of nonnative
speakers of English who were asked to give the meanings of selected common idioms …