Table of contents
Figurative thought and language research in the 21st century: Back to the future
1
Part 1.Modeling figurative thought and language
17
Important challenges in the study of metaphor
19
A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’
37
Targeting the metonymic target
59
Part 2.The impact of figurative thought on linguistic structures
87
The effect of figurative thought on basic level categorization: How categories came to formed and named
89
Reconsidering accounts of the grammaticalization of auxiliaries: The cases of be-going-to and have-perfect
113
Physical and communicative force in Caused-Motion constructions: What they entail and what they implicate
141
Part 3.Processing of figurative language: Two case studies on irony
165
Embodied simulations and verbal irony comprehension
167
Verbal and situational irony: On the conceptual mechanisms underlying two patterns of irony
185
Part 4.Figurative thought and language in use
213
Metonymies of migration: Media discourse about and by migrants
215
Draining the swamp: Creative figurative language in political discourse
237
Being in the same boat, in two ways: Conflict metaphors in health care
259
Index
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