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 …

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 …

When people understand expressions that are intended nonliterally, two kinds of meaning
are simultaneously apprehended: the literal meanings of the words themselves and the …

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 …

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

Current Directions is a gold mine. You may or may not agree with this statement, but
chances are you had no problem understanding it. How did you arrive at that …

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 …

Abstract address some basic questions about figurative language in general, and about
metaphor in particular/examine what it is that makes a string of words a metaphor, how …

This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively.
Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered …

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several
important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought …