On our mind salience, context, and figurative language

"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 expla...

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1. Verfasser:	Giora, Rachel (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York Oxford Univ. Press 2003
Schlagworte:	Beeldspraak > Woordbetekenis > Context (Linguistics) > Figures of speech > Psycholinguistics > Rhetorische Figur > Kontext > Psycholinguistik
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Zusammenfassung:	"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. Readership: Graduate students and professors in psycholinguistics and linguistics."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-242) and index
Beschreibung:	IX, 259 S.
ISBN:	0195136160 0-19-513616-0