On Our Mind

• 1: Prologue2: Salience and Context3: Lexical Access4: Irony5: Metaphors and Idioms6: Jokes7: Innovation8: Evidence from Other Research9: Coda: Unaddressed Questions--Food for Future ThoughtNotesReferencesAuthor IndexGeneral Index

She has single-handedly lifted a current paradigm out of its hinges and placed it on a new footing, .. despite the many technical explanations, the book is easy to read and the experiments are easy to follow. The well-argued plausibility of Giora's model is at least an eye-opener, if not a refreshing alternative, for people subscribing to different paradigms and who are being helped not least by the pleasant lightheartedness which is an overall positive feature of Giora's book, making it a good read, even for non-professionals.