TY - CHAP
T1 - On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings
AU - Givoni, Shir
AU - Bergerbest, Dafna
AU - Giora, Rachel
N1 - ID: 2021-22065-007
M1 - Book, Section
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper discusses the phenomenon of marked ambiguation, when more than one meaning of an ambiguity is simultaneously applicable, and outlines an account for such marking within the Low-Salience Marking Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, ambiguity markers (e.g., double entendre, in the full sense of the word) boost meanings low on salience (Givoni, 2011; Givoni, Giora, and Bergerbest, 2013). Low-salience meanings are meanings less frequent, less familiar, less prototypical, and less conventional (Giora, 1997, 2003). Results from two experiments conducted in Hebrew support the hypothesis. They show that marking figurative polysemy results in higher preference and faster response times for less-salient meanings, challenging modular (Fodor, 1983), literal-first (Grice, 1975), and underspecification (Frisson and Pickering, 2001) accounts of lexical access. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
AB - This paper discusses the phenomenon of marked ambiguation, when more than one meaning of an ambiguity is simultaneously applicable, and outlines an account for such marking within the Low-Salience Marking Hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, ambiguity markers (e.g., double entendre, in the full sense of the word) boost meanings low on salience (Givoni, 2011; Givoni, Giora, and Bergerbest, 2013). Low-salience meanings are meanings less frequent, less familiar, less prototypical, and less conventional (Giora, 1997, 2003). Results from two experiments conducted in Hebrew support the hypothesis. They show that marking figurative polysemy results in higher preference and faster response times for less-salient meanings, challenging modular (Fodor, 1983), literal-first (Grice, 1975), and underspecification (Frisson and Pickering, 2001) accounts of lexical access. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
KW - Marking
KW - Figurativity
KW - Polysemy
KW - Salience
KW - Low-salience
KW - The Low-Salience Marking Hypothesis
KW - Ambiguity processing
KW - Lexical access
U2 - 10.1075/ftl.11.08giv
DO - 10.1075/ftl.11.08giv
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SN - 9789027208552
T3 - Figurative thought and language (FTL).
SP - 241
EP - 284
BT - Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
A2 - Soares da Silva, Augusto
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands
ER -