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Metaphor and simile research has traditionally focused on the projection of content fromvehicle to topic, thereby revealing new meaning in the topic. We show that the meaning ofvehicles also changes during figurative language understanding. Participants read a poem thatlikens the temporal self to a snake being divided by a machete, and were asked to draw thesnake. Against prototypical snake drawings, their snakes showed central characteristics oftimelines: they were straight and oriented towards the right. These results suggest that figurativelanguage understanding, and possibly all language understanding, is an integrative and creativeprocess of the kind proposed by Blending Theory. The results also suggest that entrenched,conventional patterns for mapping and integrating conceptual structures, such as the timeline,can play a central role in the meaning of highly creative figurative language

Like the machete the snake: Integration of topic and vehicle in poetry comprehension reveals meaning construction processes.