{"id":353,"date":"2025-03-11T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2025-05-16T11:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:07:45","slug":"processes-and-products-of-metaphor-comprehension","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/where-does-this-page-go\/key-issues-metaphor-comprehension\/processes-and-products-of-metaphor-comprehension\/","title":{"rendered":"Processes and products of metaphor comprehension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4D model for metaphor is based on the 4D model for utterance comprehension in discourse called the Construction-Integration model (see <a href=\"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/where-does-this-page-go\/key-issues-metaphor\/dmip\/\">4D model<\/a>). Utterances are seen as the input for building four related mental representations for the meaning of the utterance (Van Dijk &amp; Kintsch, 1983):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the surface text captures an utterance&#8217;s linguistic structures and functions; it includes how people represent polysemy, salience, and signalling<\/li>\n<li>the text base captures an utterance&#8217;s conceptual structures and functions; it includes how people represent conceptual polysemy<\/li>\n<li>the situation model captures an utterance&#8217;s referential structures and functions; it includes how people represent states of affairs that exhibit reference to elements from one or two domains<\/li>\n<li>the context model captures an utterance&#8217;s communicative structures and functions; it includes how people represent the language user&#8217;s intention to use a metaphor as a metaphor or not (with an alien perspective from a source-domain referent on a target domain)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Optional post-comprehension processes occur after the click of comprehension has taken place, when reference and intentions have been assigned in a good-enough way for the receiver. Post-comprehension processes include metaphor recognition, interpretation, and appreciation, and can be seen as a more encompassing form of metaphor understanding. This is a new model for metaphor comprehension which can account for lots of old evidence in new ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4D model for metaphor is based on the 4D model for utterance comprehension in discourse called the Construction-Integration model (see 4D model). Utterances are seen as the input for building four related mental representations for the meaning of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/where-does-this-page-go\/key-issues-metaphor-comprehension\/processes-and-products-of-metaphor-comprehension\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":378,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-353","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/353\/revisions\/1448"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaphorinaction.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}