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On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language - Couverture rigide

Giora, Rachel

 
9780195136166: On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195136160 ISBN 13 : 9780195136166
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Revue de presse

She has single-handedly lifted a current paradigm out of its hinges and placed it on a new footing, .. despite the many technical explanations, the book is easy to read and the experiments are easy to follow. The well-argued plausibility of Giora's model is at least an eye-opener, if not a refreshing alternative, for people subscribing to different paradigms and who are being helped not least by the pleasant lightheartedness which is an overall positive feature of Giora's book, making it a good read, even for non-professionals. (J.L.Mey, Lingua)

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195136160
ISBN 13 
9780195136166
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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