On Our Mind - Salience, Context, and Figurative Language (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2003
First published:	May 2003
Authors:	Rachel Giora (Associate Professor of Linguistics)
Dimensions:	243 x 163 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513616-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
LSN:	0-19-513616-0
Barcode:	9780195136166

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