Figuring out Figuration
A cognitive linguistic account
| University of La Rioja
| University of La Rioja
This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative consequences, thus bringing together pragmatics and cognition. This type of study has allowed the authors to provide new definitions for all the figures while making their dependency relations fully explicit. For example, hypallage, antonomasia, anthimeria, and merism are studied as variants of metonymy, and analogy, paragon, and allegory as variants of metaphor. An important feature of the book is its special emphasis on the combinations of figures of speech into conceptually more complex configurations. Finally, the book accounts for the principles that regulate the felicity of figurative expressions. The result is a broad integrative framework for the analysis of figurative language grounded in the relationship between pragmatics and cognition.
[Figurative Thought and Language, 14] 2022. ix, 296 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–6
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Chapter 2. Figurative thought and language: An overview of approaches | pp. 7–50
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Chapter 3. Foundations of cognitive modeling | pp. 51–104
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Chapter 4. Metaphor and metonymy revisited | pp. 105–178
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Chapter 5. Hyperbole | pp. 179–226
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Chapter 6. Irony | pp. 227–258
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Chapter 7. Conclusion | pp. 259–264
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References | pp. 265–289
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Index | p. 290
Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2022006133