David Palfreyman explains the design and use of a corpus that captures Arabic and English writing by the same university students. The discussion shows how paired texts and contextual information can illuminate bilingual vocabulary, assessment and discourse, and how this approach supports research on multilingual language use and education.
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Seminar · Psycholinguistics
Modelling metaphor comprehension as a form of analogizing
Gerard Steen · University of Amsterdam
Wed, Nov 30, 2022 · 20:00 UTC
What do people do when they comprehend language in discourse? According to many psychologists, they build and maintain cognitive representations of utterances in four complementary mental models for discourse that interact with each other: the surface text, the text base, the situation model, and the context model. When people encounter metaphors in these utterances, they need to incorporate them into each of these mental representations for the discourse. Since influential metaphor theories define metaphor as a form of (figurative) analogy, involving cross-domain mapping of a smaller or great