“…Krennmayr, 2011); and this may also suggest that these potential linguistic and conceptual criteria trigger people's processing of a metaphor as a deliberately used device in communication. I have described a number of formal consequences for utterance analysis in Steen (2011b) and a number of processing consequences in Steen (2013), but the complete theoretical framework is still being elaborated. By way of aside, this is not to say that structural-functional analysis is comparable to processing research, a position Gibbs (this volume) seems to attribute to DMT; on the contrary, as I have made explicit in numerous places (especially in Steen, 2007Steen, , 2011a, linguistic analysis is fundamentally different from psychological research and the two offer complementary pictures of the phenomenon of metaphor use: linguistics a structural-functional one and psychology a process-product one.…”