On our mind : salience, context, and figurative language /

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.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Giora, Rachel, 1945-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Psycholinguistics. Figures of speech. Context (Linguistics) Psycholinguistics Psycholinguistique. Contexte. psycholinguistics. Figures of speech Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book