On our mind: Salience, context, and figurative language On our mind: Salience, context, and
figurative language …

… This article discusses three claims of the Graded Salience Hypothesis presented in
Rachel Giora’s book On our mind. It is argued that these claims may give second language …

… salient meanings – meanings that are decoded in our mental lexicon and foremost on our
mind – affect our … on how, in addition to contextual information, salient meanings and senses of …

… encounter, irrespective of contextual (both linguistic and non-linguistic) information or authorial
intention. Salient meanings are coded in our mental lexicon and “foremost on our mind” (: …

… More salient meanings--coded meanings fore most on our mind due to conventionality, …
less salient ones. According to the graded salience hypothesis, then, coded meanings would be …

… salient; or, the meaning activated by previous context, or made predictable by previous context
is the more salient. … determining the degree of salience associated with a given meaning. …

… This study aims at testing the predictions of the graded salience hypothesis by examining
salient and less salient figurative language. A linguistic expression is considered salient when …

… of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language. … contextual information—our
knowledge of fishing and fish—that plays a crucial role in initial processes, or is it the saliency …

… Our Mind: Salience Context and Figurative Language. Oxford Univ. Press, New York] Graded
Salience Hypothesis states that more salient … coded meanings foremost on our mind due to …

… of research into figurative language, with exciting new theoretical developments regarding
how figurative expressions are processed, understood, and represented in the brain, as well …