The Interplay of Syntactic and Lexical Salience and its Effect on Default Figurative Responses

The aim of the paper is to determine how salient and non-salient figurative discourse nouns affect readers’ default response processing and oculo-graphic (eye-movement) reactions. Whereas the theories of the Graded Salience and the Defaultness Hypotheses, developed by R. Giora (Giora, 1999, 2003; Gi...

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Main Author: Kiose Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2020-03-01
Series:Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2020-0004