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Download full textOrtony, Andrew; And Others – 1983
A paper dealing with the comprehension of metaphor and a second paper addressing the ramifications of the first paper's ideas for teaching practices are contained in this report. The opening section of the first paper explains why language theorists and scholars in a number of disciplines are interested in metaphor. Its next section deals with…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Processing, Language Skills, Linguistic Theory
