Course materials

The primary source for this course consists of a browser-readable book, which is used as a teaching aid in class but can also serve as a self-standing tutorial. The book can be found here.

The two papers the data sets used in the course refer to are:

• Metonymies are more literal than metaphors: evidence from ratings of German idioms (Michl, 2019a) [here]

• Speedy Metonymy, Tricky Metaphor, Irrelevant Compositionality: How Nonliteralness Affects Idioms in Reading and Rating (Michl, 2019b) [here]