On our mind : salience, context, and figurative language / Rachel Giora.

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 figu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Giora, Rachel, 1945-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Psycholinguistics. Figures of speech. Context (Linguistics)