METAPHOR-BASED SCHEMAS AND TEXT REPRESENTATIONS - MAKING CONNECTIONS THROUGH CONCEPTUAL METAPHORS

Four experiments were conducted to examine the role of metaphor-based schemas in text comprehension and representation. In Experiment 1, schemas facilitated recognition judgments for schema-related sentences that had been presented in a text. Similar facilitation was found for the recognition of individual words in Experiments 2, 3, and 4. The results are interpreted as evidence for the use of metaphor-based schemas to link elements within a text representation.