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 …
Are literal and nonliteral utterances processed differently or do they follow the same comprehension routes? Relying on intuition, we might expect them to differ. Recent findings …
Instead of postulating the priority of literal meaning (see eg, Grice, 1975; Searle, 1979), the present paper adduces evidence in support of the priority of salient meanings (for a similar …
Literal meaning has been defined as linguistic meaning, ie, as nonfigurative, coded, fully compositional, context-invariant, explicit, and truth conditional (Katz, Jerrold J., 1977 …
The voluminous literature on linguistic relativity has concerned itself primarily with the search for influences of particular languages on nonlinguistic cognition in situations in which …
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This study provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that language comprehension involves 2 separate mechanisms that run in parallel: a linguistic mechanism and a …
In this study I lest the prevalent Claims among contemporary psycholinguists that understanding metaphor does not involve a special process, and that it is essentially …
Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new look at the continuing debates in psycholinguistics over what is special about figurative language use. Figurative language …
Verbal irony (eg,'Oh fantastic, there is no queue at all') and understatement (eg,“There seems to be a bit of a queue”) perform similar pragmatic functions because they both make …