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The Gradient Salience model is a model of figurative language comprehension proposed by Rachel Giora in 2002 as an alternative to the standard pragmatic model.

It offers a possible explanation for the results obtained in various contemporary studies, in which figurative language is processed as fast as literal language.

They are most prominent in language, as they are the most conventional or frequently used.

Non salient meanings are meanings which are relatively novel and infrequent.

The Gradient Salience model assumes that the processing of metaphorical expressions depends on the meaning's saliency.