Novelty and recall effects of animate and inanimate metaphorical discourse

1 March 1975

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Central States Speech Journal

Vol. 26 (1) , 29-33
https://doi.org/10.1080/10510977509367815

Abstract

Two experiments tested college and high school students’ responses to literal, animate metaphoric and inanimate metaphoric passages of discourse. In three out of four cases the animate metaphoric passages appeared to have greater novelty than the literal passages, they were not recalled more accurately than the literal passages.

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