Table of contents
Editor and contributors
vii
Foreword
ix
Introduction: Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar?
1
Part I.Figuration and grammar
Chapter 1.Exploiting wh-questions for expressive purposes
17
Chapter 2.Construing and constructing hyperbole
41
Chapter 3.How to do things with metonymy in discourse
75
Chapter 4.Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek
105
Chapter 5.How metonymy and grammar interact: Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective
125
Chapter 6.
If-clauses and their figurative basis
151
Part II.Figuration and the lexicon
Chapter 7.The hand in figurative thought and language
179
Chapter 8.
Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move: Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian
199
Chapter 9.Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: The case of completion is up and the polysemy of shang in Chinese
231
Part III.Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
Chapter 10.Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful "asymmetry"-builders
253
Chapter 11.Pragmatic effects in blended figures: The case of metaphtonymy
273
Chapter 12.The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors
295
Name index
323
Subject index
325
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