Giora's [Giora, R., 1997. Understanding figurative and literal language: the Graded Salience
Hypothesis. Cogn. Linguist. 7 (1), 183–206; Giora, R., 2003. On Our Mind: Salience Context …

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 …

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 …

The present study examined the role of the left (LH) and right (RH) cerebral hemispheres in
processing alternative meanings of idiomatic sentences. We conducted two experiments …

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 …

This article addresses the question of how second language (L2) learners understand
idiomatic expressions in their second/foreign language and advances the proposition that …

This study investigates the contribution of the left and right hemispheres to the
comprehension of bilingual figurative language and the joint effects of salience and context …

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 …

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