On Our Mind : Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
by
Rachel Giora
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195136160
ISBN-13
9780195136166
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 5th, 2003
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
535 grams
Dimensions
24.30 x 16.70 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of languagePsycholinguistics
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How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony and jokes. The author presents a comprehensive theory to explain figurative language comprehension.
How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory, the Graded Salience Hypothesis, to explain figuative language comprehension. Giora contends that the salience of meanings (i.e., the cognitive priority we ascribe to words encoded in our mental lexicon) has the primary role in language comprehension and production.
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