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Metaphors In Working Memory

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Glucksbery, McGlone and Keysar (1992) proposes that conceptual structures in working memory help us to understand the meaning of metaphors, but these structures are not used in every context . Conceptual structures is a conceptual system through which metaphors are defined, related to each other and defined (Lakoff and Johnson 1980).University Students were asked to give interpretations of the following three metaphors, “Our love is a bumpy roller coaster”, “Our love is a dusty road travelled” and “Our love is a voyage to the bottom of the sea”. The results found that the interpretations of each metaphor was different and the participants only gave one interpretation for each metaphor that was Journey-related. The results obtained by Glucksbery,McGlone
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