Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis

R Giora - 1997 - degruyter.com
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 …

Literal vs. figurative language: Different or equal?

R Giora - Journal of pragmatics, 2002 - Elsevier
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 …

Beyond literal meanings: The psychology of allusion

S Glucksberg - Psychological science, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
When people understand expressions that are intended nonliterally, two kinds of meaning
are simultaneously apprehended: the literal meanings of the words themselves and the …

On understanding familiar and less-familiar figurative language

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 …

Figurative language

RW Gibbs Jr, HL Colston - Handbook of psycholinguistics, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter presents a new look at the continuing debates in
psycholinguistics over what is special about figurative language use. Figurative language …

Understanding metaphors

S Glucksberg - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1998 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language

R Giora - Journal of pragmatics, 1999 - Elsevier
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 …

Understanding figurative language.

C Cacciari, S Glucksberg - 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

[图书][B] Understanding figurative language: From metaphor to idioms

S Glucksberg, MS McGlone - 2001 - books.google.com
This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively.
Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered …

[图书][B] Figurative language and thought

AN Katz, C Cacciari, RW Gibbs Jr, M Turner - 1998 - books.google.com
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 …