On Our Mind

Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

Rachel Giora (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2003
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-513616-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

1: Prologue
2: Salience and Context
3: Lexical Access
4: Irony
5: Metaphors and Idioms
6: Jokes
7: Innovation
8: Evidence from Other Research
9: Coda: Unaddressed Questions--Food for Future Thought
Notes
References
Author Index
General Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.6.2003
Zusatzinfo	2 halftones and numerous figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	167 x 243 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-513616-0 / 0195136160
ISBN-13	978-0-19-513616-6 / 9780195136166
Zustand	Neuware