On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language

Giora, Rachel

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“…With his classification of idioms, Gibbs provides a deeper perception on the composition of idioms leading to more considerations about the feature of decompositionality or compositionality of idioms. Gibbs and his insights into idioms are also inspiring and prompting for the emergence of the latter hybrid perspectives on idiom comprehension like Giora's Graded Salience Hypothesis (Giora, 1999) and Sprenger's Superlemma Theory of Idiom Production (2006) that are more integrated and plausible to address the issue of idiom comprehension. The Superlemma Theory of Idiom Production by Sprenger and the Graded Salience Hypothesis always figure as a theoretical foundation for experimental studies of idioms (Liu, 2013).…”

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“…This theory involves not only idiom processing but also idiom production. The Graded Salience Hypothesis, on the other hand, focuses on the feature of saliency, avoiding the literal and nonliteral division (Giora, 1999). It argues that the salient meanings rather than the literal or non-literal meanings are activated first regardless of the contextual constraints.…”

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“…Only after the activation of the salient meanings, the contextual effects would take control. That is, if the salient meanings are not fitted into the contexts, the nonsalient ones would then be activated by language users (Giora, 1999).…”

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136 Compositionality/Non-Compositionality of Idioms: Non-Native Speakers’ Constraints to Comprehension

Velasco

2016

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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Representational Modularity (RM) Hypothesis which states that, similar to how people make sense of categories, they also systematically make sense of language. This study seeks to discover the way non-native speakers of English negotiate meaning when faced with idiomatic expressions that are modified either by a process of passivization or by a process of quantification; and whether idiom comprehension influence judgments of appropriateness of use of the modified expressions. Employing a researcher-made questionnaire that underwent content validity and reliability tests, the instrument was administered to four college freshman classes from four different higher education institutions. Findings reveal that a significant difference was found between group performance in the passivization and quantification tests through a one-sample test. However, an absence of a statistical relationship between the scores in the test and the participants' judgment of appropriateness of use (spoken, written, spoken and written) was revealed by the statistical analysis.

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136 Compositionality/Non-Compositionality of Idioms: Non-Native Speakers’ Constraints to Comprehension

Velasco

2016

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist

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“…Ook Giora's Graded Salience Hypothesis (o.a. 1997;1999;2002) veronderstelt dat beide betekenissen geactiveerd worden, al wordt volgens haar de letterlijke betekenis normaliter eerder geactiveerd dan de ironische. Deze wordt echter niet verworpen, maar gebruikt om de ironische betekenis te construeren.…”

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“…Hoe voor de hand liggend een interpretatie is, is afhankelijk van de mate van bekendheid, gebruik, conventionaliteit en prototypie. De invloed van de context zou volgens haar te verwaarlozen zijn, ook als het gaat om voorafgaande ironie (Giora, 1999;Giora e.a.., 2007).…”

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Burgers

Mulken

2010

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In this research, we investigated the influence of co-text (the text of which an utterance is part of) on the processing of ironic evaluations. In an experiment, we adapted and manipulated fragments from film, book and music reviews. Participants randomly read versions with either two ironie evaluations, two literal evaluations, or an ironie evaluation preceded by a literal evaluation. Findings show that literal evaluations (such as "we don't want to hear the local brass band play at a rock festival") were read faster than ironie evaluations (such as "we all love to hear the local brass band play at a rock festival"). However, ironie evaluations were read faster if they were marked by a preceding ironie evaluation. Fragments of negative reviews were interpreted as less negative if they contained irony. Irony thus muted criticism. In addition, appreciation of the reviews was higher if fragments contained two ironie evaluations.

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Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres

Peleg

Eviatar

2012

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

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On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language

Cited by 268 publications

References 32 publications

136 Compositionality/Non-Compositionality of Idioms: Non-Native Speakers’ Constraints to Comprehension

136 Compositionality/Non-Compositionality of Idioms: Non-Native Speakers’ Constraints to Comprehension

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Understanding Written Words: Phonological, Lexical, and Contextual Effects in the Cerebral Hemispheres

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