On our mind: salience, context, and figurative language
Auteur :
Giora, Rachel
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195136166
Date de publication :
5 juin 2003
Dimensions :
24,3 x 16,7 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
535 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.