An edition of On Our Mind (2003)
On Our Mind
Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
By Rachel Giora
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Publish Date
April 26, 2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA,Oxford University Press
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.