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The Psychological Reality of Chinese Deliberate Metaphors from the Reception Side: An Experimental Approach
- Juanjuan Wang,
- Jiajun Du,
- Ting Zheng and
- Yi Sun
While the psychological reality of deliberate metaphors remains in ongoing doubt, this study attests to their psychological reality in the Chinese language. Based upon the definition and main tenets of deliberate metaphor, we propose three hypotheses...