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graded salience hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Psycholinguistics

the claim that the most salient meaning of an expression, literal or figurative, is accessed first regardless of context.

In psycholinguistics, graded salience hypothesis refers to the claim that the most salient meaning of an expression, literal or figurative, is accessed first regardless of context. This meaning comes from Giora (1997) in Cognitive Linguistics.[1]

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References

Giora, R. (1997). Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis. Cognitive Linguistics, 8(3), 183-206. https://doi.org/10.1515/cogl.1997.8.3.183

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