The chapter focuses on two well-studied examples of figurative language: jokes and
metaphors. We begin each section with a review of cognitive neuroscience research used to …

A complete neurolinguistic model of language comprehension must include the
representational and processing components housed in both the left and right cerebral …

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several
important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought …

This article, which serves to introduce the companion articles in this issue, briefly reviews the
impact of cognitive science on the study of figurative language. The intellectual background …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new look at the continuing debates in
psycholinguistics over what is special about figurative language use. Figurative language …

The following review critically synthesizes the literature on hemispheric differences in idiom
and metaphor comprehension. It has long been debated whether figurative language is …

In this paper I review some of the theoretical issues surrounding metaphor, and trace them
through the context of the cognitive neuroscience debate. Metaphor, like all figurative …

The interest in how the brain processes METAPHORS traces its origins back to a tradition
which regarded figurative language as POETIC and hence the opposite of literal language …

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll was published in 1871 as a sequel to Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and has remained a popular, intriguing classic. Through …

The past decade has witnessed the development of a significant body of research and
theory concerning the areas of figurative language use and comprehension. The purpose of …