Metaphor Comprehension - A Special Mode of Language Processing?

which is encountered when the underlying conceptual.structure is built for the sentence. However, the mismatch need not be restricted to elements of the sa/ne sentence. Even though the elements of a particular sentence may not result in a semantic mismatch, the whole sentence itself can be metaphorical with respect to its linguistic context. In this case the semantic mismatch is encountered when the interpreter has difficulty connecting the conceptual representation of the sentence to the existing structure representing the context.