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On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language Giora, Rachel (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
Giora, Rachel (Associate Professor of Linguistics, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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.
272 pages, 2 halftones and numerous figures
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 5, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195136166 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 167 × 243 × 24 mm · 535 g |
| Language | English |