On Our Mind —— Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

----- 在我们的心灵：突出，语境和比喻语言

ISBN: 9780195136166 出版年：2012 页码：272 Giora, Rachel Oxford University Press

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.