On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

By R. Giora. 2003

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Lexical and syntactic ambiguity as a source of humor (2004, background): “In a broader perspective, Giora (2003) reviews the psycholinguistic literature on the processing of jokes, irony, and numerous related phenomena.”
Blending and coded meaning: Literal and figurative meaning in cognitive semantics (2005, background): “Giora (1997, 2003) has argued that some word meanings are accessed before their contextually appropriate counterparts, as when the meaning of ''drop'' as ''a tiny amount'' is initially more salient than its meaning as ''act of falling'' even in contexts where the ''falling'' meaning is eventually…”
Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010, background): “Ritchie (2006: 215) also recognizes that context-irrelevant simulators may not be completely suppressed if they are ̳salient‘ in Giora‘s (2003) sense.”
Frame-Shifting in Humor and Irony (2005, background): “Those that seem most likely to fit the elements already in common ground remain activated but the others are suppressed (Giora, 2003; see also Norrick, 2003).”
Are There Necessary Conditions for Inducing a Sense of Sarcastic Irony? (2012, background): “Moreover, based on these theoretical notions, Giora, Fein, Kaufman, Eisenberg, and Erez (2009) constructed experimental stimuli that, presumably, should clearly elicit an ironic reading of a target statement as a means of testing Giora’s (2003) graded salience theory of irony processing.”
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Optimal Innovation and Pleasure Ratings (2004, methodology): “For a response (e.g., a meaning) to be salient, it should be foremost on our mind due to factors such as experiential familiarity, frequency, conventionality, or prototypicality (see Giora, 1997b, 2003, 13–38).”
Situation-bound utterances as pragmatic acts (2010, methodology): “The measurement of intention and attention by means of relevance and salience is distinct from earlier explanations (e.g. Sperber and Wilson, 1986; Wilson and Sperber, 2004; Giora, 2003).”