There have been several notable recent trends in the area of learning and memory.
Problems with the episodic/semantic distinction have become more apparent, and new …

This article reviews modern experiments involving chronometric measurements of
comprehension processes for various forms of nonliteral language. The goal of such …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

According to recent work in the new field of lexical pragmatics, the meanings of words are
frequently pragmatically adjusted and fine-tuned in context, so that their contribution to the …

This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides
an integrative and timely review of language as social action. The book successfully weaves …

This article reports on a strategy training study that investigated the lexical processing
strategies (LPSs; ignore, consult, infer) used by L2 learners when they encounter unfamiliar …

Non-literal language is ubiquitous in everyday life, and while hyperbole is a major part of
this, it has so far remained relatively unexplored. This volume provides the first investigation …

Social psychology traditionally has been defined as the study of the ways in which people
affect, and are affected by, others. 1 Communication is one of the primary means by which …

Words that have a number of related senses are polysemous. For example, paper refers to
both a substance and a publication printed on that substance. Five experiments investigated …

Under the theoretical assumption that lexical ambiguity is not a homogeneous phenomenon,
but rather that it is subdivided into two distinct types, namely homonymy and polysemy, the …