Table of contents
Foreword and acknowledgments
VII
Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introduction
1
Part I.Figurativeness and theory: Addition, identification and structure
Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat
45
A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages
71
Part II.Figurativeness and constructions
Intensification via figurative language
91
Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typology
107
Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese
129
Metonymy meets coercion: The case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and
predicative constructions in Spanish
151
Part III.Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole
187
Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic
liturgy
209
Part IV.Typology of figures and cognitive models
Figures of speech revisited: Introducing syntonymy and syntaphor
225
Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation and
Sedimentation Model
253
The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory
scenarios in meaning making
283
Index
309
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