Talk:Salience (language)

Whoever wrote this article is obsessed with paper and torque!

Definition could use some improving imo.

Relevance?
I have wikified the lead to make the definition a little clearer. The first two paragraphs of the discussion section seem irrelevant to the topic of salience. Anyone agree? BenC7 06:17, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Crano section?
Shouldn't the Crano section be merged with the Communications Studies part ? (Or just be removed, as it is partly redundant with it ?) IMHO, a separate section with biographical information is just misplaced here, in particular as there are many models and applications of different conceptions of salience in different disciplines of linguistics and neighboring fields that cannot be listed here for reasons of brevity. Chiarcos (talk) 03:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Dr. Booth's comment on this article
Dr. Booth has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"1.     Under “Communication” under the heading of Salience I was a little surprised to see no mention explicitly of what propaganda makes salient. For instance Nazi propaganda against the Jews made salient certain characteristics. 2.       Para 1: the concept of salience is also discussed in economics, so this should be added in. 3.       For example, here is the abstract of my 2012 paper with Patrick Nolen: “Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient.  Using experimental data we show that salience affects young men and women differently, even after controlling for cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Men are significantly more likely than women to switch from a certain to a risky choice once the upside of winning is made salient, even though the expected value of the choice remains the same. Our finding of gender differences in the probability of being affected by salience has an additional implication, namely part of observed risk differences between men and women can be manipulated by framing operations.” 4.      References: Alison Booth and Patrick Nolen (2012) ‘Salience, risky choices and gender’. Economics Letters, Volume 117, Issue 2, November 2012, Pages 517–520. Bordalo, P.N., Gennaioli, N., Shleifer, A., 2012, Salience theory of choice under risk, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127 (3)."

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 * Reference : Alison Booth & Patrick Nolen, 2012. "Salience, Risky Choices and Gender," CEPR Discussion Papers 659, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.

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