Abstract
Abstract Virtually no psycholinguistic studies have investigated components of psychological judgments of literal and figurative meaningfulness versus anomaly. In a study of 57 undergraduates, one group of 21 S s classified 120 sentences as literal or figurative in meaning or as meaningless; two groups of 18 S s each judged the truth value of the proposition in each sentence and rated the degree of similarity between subject and predicate constituents. Discriminant analysis indicated that literal, figurative, and anomalous sentences were accurately distinguished in truth value and subject-predicate similarity. In particular, metaphors reflected the literary notion of similarity between the elements of a logically false proposition.
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