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  1. 17 February 2007 #1
    Judy
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    Default Four metaphors a minute

    Hi, can anyone give me a reference for the often-quoted research that concluded we use around four metaphors a minute in conversation, please?

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  2. 20 February 2007 #2
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    Default 4M/min

    Judy, This is the reference on Penny & James' site http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/LearningMetaphors.html - Susan R Robinson, Birkbeck College, University of London, 11 November 2000.

    I've tried searching for the original, but to no avail.

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  3. 20 February 2007 #3
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    Default Brilliant!

    Many thanks Ian.

    Judy

    PS. Will I see you at the Modelling Masters next week?
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  4. 18 December 2007 #4
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    Default Six metaphors a minute

    Just found a reference that suggests six metpahors a minute in ordinary spoken language!

    Raymond R Gibbs Jr, "Categorisation and Metaphor Understanding" Psychological Review 99, no 3 (1992). Quoted in the excellent "How Customers Think" by Gerald Zaltman (2003) p37
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