A dataset of metaphors from the italian literature: exploring psycholinguistic variables and the role of context.

ABSTRACT: Defining the specific role of the factors that affect metaphor processing is a fundamental step for fully understanding figurative language comprehension, either in discourse and conversation or in reading poems and novels. This study extends the currently available materials on everyday metaphorical expressions by providing the first dataset of metaphors extracted from literary texts and scored for the major psycholinguistic variables, considering also the effect of context. A set of 115 Italian literary metaphors presented in isolation (Experiment 1) and a subset of 65 literary metaphors embedded in their original texts (Experiment 2) were rated on several dimensions (word and phrase frequency, readability, cloze probability, familiarity, concreteness, difficulty and meaningfulness). Ove

SUBMITTER: Bambini V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4171463 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature