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  1. On our mind
    salience, context, and figurative language
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony and jokes. The author presents a comprehensive theory to explain figurative... more

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    How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony and jokes. The author presents a comprehensive theory to explain figurative language comprehension.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780195136166; 9780199846993 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: ER 940 ; ER 955
    Subjects: Sprachverstehen; Semantik; Pragmatik; Kontext; Worterkennung; Metapher; Phraseologie; Kultur; Witz; Ästhetik
    Scope: ix, 259 p.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

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