Our Professor Kathleen Ahrens is co-author of this new joint paper published by the International Journal of Communication of the USC Annenberg Press under the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The paper discussed the use of three between-subjects experiments to evaluate the influence of metaphor in news about foreign policies.
The results demonstrate that novel metaphors are helpful to readers processing texts about new topics as they draw attention to the language with their novelty, but remain familiar enough to generate positive affect.
More information of the article can be found on the website HERE.
