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On My Mind: Thoughts about Salience, Context and Figurative Language from a Second Language Perspective
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Kecskes, Istvan – Second Language Research, 2006
This article discusses three claims of the Graded Salience Hypothesis presented in Rachel Giora's book "On our mind". It is argued that these claims may give second language researchers the chance to revise the way they think about word meaning, the literal meaning-figurative meaning dichotomy and the role of context in language…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Language Research, Figurative Language