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 …
RW Gibbs Jr - Journal of pragmatics, 2002 - Elsevier
What role does literal meaning play in language comprehension? This question has been vigorously debated in research on figurative language understanding. The standard …
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 …
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 …
R Carston - The Cambridge handbook of pragmatics, 2012 - academia.edu
A fascination with nonliteral language, how it works and what effects it has on hearers and readers, goes a very long way back. In the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, it was …
O Peleg, R Giora, O Fein - Models of Figurative Language, 2001 - taylorfrancis.com
This study provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that language comprehension involves 2 separate mechanisms that run in parallel: a linguistic mechanism and a …
R Giora, O Fein - Journal of pragmatics, 1999 - Elsevier
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 …