Understanding Metaphors

1. Introduction
2. Metaphors
3. Processing nonliteral language
3.1. Standard pragmatic model: Sequential processing
3.2. The direct Access view: Context-Dependent-Hypothesis
3.3. Graded salience hypothesis
3.4. Testing traditional hypotheses
4. The role of hemispheres
4.1. Questioning the special role of the right hemisphere
4.2. Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
4.3. Visual Half-Field Priming
4.4. Neuroimaging
5. Recent research
6. Conclusion
7. Bibliography