Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
List of contributors
IX
IntroductionFigurative language: Intersubjectivity and usage
1
Part I.Intersubjectivity and interaction
Second-order empathy, pragmatic ambiguity, and irony
19
Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation & Sedimentation Model
and motion-emotion metaphoremes
41
Evaluating metaphor accounts via their pragmatic effects
75
The multimodal negotiation of irony and humor in interaction: On the role of eye gaze in joint pretense
109
Part II.Mechanisms and processes
Metaphor and irony: Messy when mixed
139
Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis: Getting two (or more) targets for the price of one vehicle
175
On verbal and situational irony: Towards a unified approach
213
On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings
241
Part III.Usage and variation
Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy: A historical perspective
287
Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration
307
The fabric of metaphor in discourse: Interweaving cognition and discourse in figurative language
339
Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon: A usage-based perspective on incongruity
357
Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural
conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of
Portuguese
387
Index
439s
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