The Study on Non-literal Meanings in Our Conversation

In our daily conversation, we often speak with a metaphor, an idiom and a kind of slangs. They usually represent figurative, non-literal meanings, but we can understand immediately what they mean. This paper analyzes how we can distinguish non-literal meanings from literal meanings, and how we understand the intended meaning from figurative expressions. To figure out the non-literal meaning, it is necessary to share the knowledge about the world. When we use figurative expressions, more or less, there may be the purpose to measure the partnership with others