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  1. Flat as a wall or flat as a butcher’s hand

    Article • Scientific Study of Literature, December 2018, International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  2. Imposed Metaphoricity

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  3. Taxonomic and ad hoc categorization within the two cerebral hemispheres

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  4. Element Order in Metaphorical and Literal Phrases

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  5. Language effects on the conceptualization of hybrids

    Article • Language and Cognition, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen, Karine Jospe, Nira Mashal

  6. The making of theatrical groupings: A cognitive perspective

    Article • Semiotica, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  7. The farmers sowed seeds and hopes

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  8. How to interpret the music of caressing: Target and source assignment in synaesthetic genitive constructions

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  9. `Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter': synaesthetic metaphors and cognition

    Article • Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics, May 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  10. Two levels of foregrounding in literary narratives

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  11. 4. Evaluation devices as a coordinating mechanism for story points

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  12. Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  13. Conventional Language: How Metaphorical Is It?

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, November 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  14. Principles of metaphor interpretation and the notion of ‘domain’: A proposal for a hybrid model

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  15. The poetics of mind: Figurative thought, language, and understanding

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, November 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  16. Metaphorical (In)coherence in discourse

    Article • Discourse Processes, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  17. Zeugma: Prototypes, Categories, and Metaphors

    Article • Metaphor and Symbol, March 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  18. Semantic transparency and translucency in compound blissymbols

    Article • Augmentative and Alternative Communication, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  19. Metaphors and conceptual structure

    Article • Poetics, September 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  20. Cristina Cacciari (ed), Similarity in Language, Thought, and Perception

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, January 1997, John Benjamins

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  21. Cognitive constraints on poetic figures

    Article • Cognitive Linguistics, January 1997, De Gruyter

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  22. Cognitive constraints on directionality in the semantic structure of poetic vs. non-poetic metaphors

    Article • Poetics, August 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  23. Degrees of narrativity and strategies of semantic reduction

    Article • Poetics, December 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  24. Connectivity and Metaphor Comprehension

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 1993, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  25. Metaphors and Categories

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1992, JSTOR

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  26. Cognitive Aspects of Metaphor Comprehension: An Introduction

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1992, JSTOR

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  27. Schemata, Categories, and Metaphor Comprehension

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  28. CENTRALITY AND CAUSAL RELATIONS IN NARRATIVE TEXTS

    Article • Journal of Literary Semantics, January 1990, De Gruyter

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  29. Symmetric and asymmetric comparisons

    Article • Poetics, December 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  30. The X-Bar grammar for stories: Story grammar revisited

    Article • Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, January 1989, De Gruyter

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  31. Schema theory and the processing of narrative texts: The x-bar story grammar and the notion of discourse topic

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, December 1988, Elsevier

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  32. On the Structure and Understanding of Poetic Oxymoron

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1987, JSTOR

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  33. On Importance Hierarchy and Evaluation Devices in Narrative Texts

    Article • Poetics Today, January 1985, JSTOR

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  34. Metaphor and poetic figures

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  35. ‘Parsing’ procedures for stories

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen

  36. Why Do We Need Evaluation Devices Anyway?

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yeshayahu Shen