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In psycholinguistics, there are mixed results regarding the processes humans decode meanings to reach a metaphorical reading. However, the experimental materials have not been examined systematically using lexical-semantic approach. In this study, the experimental materials were analyzed using the qualia structure. The results verified that qualia are important in creative meaning construction, and that the Agentive quale is the one that possibly initiates the “imaginative leap” to achieve the creative meaning. Also, this phenomenon is prominent neuropsychologically in people with better image ability.
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Tsai, Y.T. (2015). Qualia Structure in Creative Metaphor. In: Lu, Q., Gao, H. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9332. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27194-1_5
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