On Our Mind
Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
Edición de la obra On Our Mind
| Autor | Rachel Giora |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | April 26, 2003 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 272 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780195136166 |
| ISBN-10 | 0195136160 |
| OCLC | 48397216 |
| LCCN | 2001006646 |
| Número de Cutter | G497o |
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.