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On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By Rachel Giora

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Publish Date

2003

Publisher

Ebsco Publishing

Language

eng

Pages

272

Description:

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.