On our mind : salience, context, and figurative language / Rachel Giora.

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.

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Main Author: Giora, Rachel, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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