Works by Frank Boers

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    Applied Linguistics Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Variation in Conceptual Metaphor.Frank Boers - 2003 - Metaphor and Symbol 18 (4):231-238.
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    Cognitive Style Variables in Participants' Explanations of Conceptual Metaphors.Frank Boers & Jeannette Littlemore - 2000 - Metaphor and Symbol 15 (3):177-187.
    A group of 71 university students were first asked to explain 3 conceptual metaphors. Then the participants' cognitive styles were classified into "analytic" or "holistic" and "imager" or "verbalizer" by means of the Riding (1991) computer-assisted test of cognitive styles. The results of the experiment revealed cognitive style variables in participants' preferred strategies to explain the metaphors: (a) "holistic thinkers" were more likely than "analytic" ones to blend their conception of the target domain with the source domain, and (b) "imagers" (...)
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