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

Author: Giora, Rachel, 1945-
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Physical Description: ix, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

Prologue -- Salience and context -- Lexical access -- Irony -- Metaphors and idioms -- Jokes -- Innovation -- Evidence from other research -- Coda: unaddressed question--food for future thought.

Subject(s)

Psycholinguistics
Figures of speech
Context (Linguistics)

ISBN

0195136160 (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-242) and indexes.

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