This study provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that language comprehension
involves 2 separate mechanisms that run in parallel: a linguistic mechanism and a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Findings of three experiments are consistent with the graded salience hypothesis (Giora,
1997), according to which salient meanings should be processed initially before less salient …

Literal meaning has been defined as linguistic meaning, ie, as nonfigurative, coded, fully
compositional, context-invariant, explicit, and truth conditional (Katz, Jerrold J., 1977 …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new look at the continuing debates in
psycholinguistics over what is special about figurative language use. Figurative language …

When people encounter polysemous words (ie, words with two or more relatively common
meanings), how is the contextually appropriate meaning selected? Contextual information …

In this paper, we describe the crucial role that suppression plays in many aspects of
language comprehension. We define suppression as a general, cognitive mechanism, the …