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On Our Mind

Rachel Giora

2003272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2003
first published
  • 2003Ebsco Publishing · ENGISBN 9780195350500
  • 2003Oxford University Press · ENGISBN 9781280473524
  • 2003Oxford University Press, USA · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780195136166

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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