Nigel E. Turner

List of John Benjamins publications in which Nigel E. Turner is involved.

Article

Turner, Nigel E. and Albert N. Katz 1997 The availability of conventional and of literal meaning during the comprehension of proverbs Pragmatics & Cognition 5:2, pp. 199–233 | Article

The confusion between sentential figurativeness and conventionality found in many of the experiments on figurative language comprehension is here disentangled by factorially crossing the figurativeness of a proverb (determined by discourse context) with conventionality (determined by familiarity… read more