On our mind : salience, context, and figurative language
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On our mind : salience, context, and figurative language
Oxford University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-242) and indexes
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
1: Prologue
2: Salience and Context
3: Lexical Access
4: Irony
5: Metaphors and Idioms
6: Jokes
7: Innovation
8: Evidence from Other Research
9: Coda: Unaddressed Questions--Food for Future Thought
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General Index
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