Metaphor and the Free Recall of Technical Text.

Yarbrough, Donald B.; Gagne, Ellen D.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Metaphor and the Free Recall of Technical Text.

Yarbrough, Donald B.; Gagne, Ellen D.

Discourse Processes, v10 n1 p81-91 Jan-Mar 1987

Suggests that metaphors in text are processed differently from literal language. Indicates that more information was remembered when the context did not contain metaphors and when the target paragraph was more important in the hierarchy of the passage. (NKA)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Metaphors, Psychological Studies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology), Word Recognition

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Language: English

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