• 1: Prologue 2: Salience and Context 3: Lexical Access 4: Irony 5: Metaphors and Idioms 6: Jokes 7: Innovation 8: Evidence from Other Research 9: Coda: Unaddressed Questions--Food for Future Thought Notes References Author Index General Index

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