Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
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This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective.
The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.
The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.
[Figurative Thought and Language, 9] 2020. vii, 311 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Foreword and acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introductionAnnalisa Baicchi | pp. 1–10
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Part I. Figurativeness and theory: Addition, identification and structure
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Metaphor thoughtfullyJohn Barnden | pp. 13–44
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Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheatMario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó and Benedikt Perak | pp. 45–70
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A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantagesZoltán Kövecses | pp. 71–88
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Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
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Intensification via figurative languageAngeliki Athanasiadou | pp. 91–106
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Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typologyCristiano Broccias | pp. 107–128
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Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journaleseSabine De Knop | pp. 129–150
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Metonymy meets coercion: The case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and predicative constructions in SpanishFrancisco Gonzálvez-García | pp. 151–184
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Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
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Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperboleHerbert L. Colston and Ann Carreno | pp. 187–208
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Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgyMarcin Kuczok | pp. 209–222
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Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
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Figures of speech revisited: Introducing syntonymy and syntaphorBogusław Bierwiaczonek | pp. 225–252
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Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation ModelSimon Devylder and Jordan Zlatev | pp. 253–282
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The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning makingFrancisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa | pp. 283–308
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Index | pp. 309–311
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General