Table of contents
Art: My dancing mind (acrylic on paper, 42 × 60 cm)VII
Prologue: On the dangers of metaphoring1
Part I.New windows into cognition and communication
Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry Project31
Narrative experiences of metaphor45
Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practice63
Feeling for speaking: How expressive body movements ground verbal descriptions of emotions77
Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communication95
Fictive motion in the wild109
Part II.Account expansion, flexibility, or integration: Dynamism in action
Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor: A comparison131
Communication, comprehension and interpretation143
Between embodiment and usage: Conventionalized figurative expressions and the notion of ‘idiom set’157
Metaphors and meaning-making in young people’s talk about climate change191
Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse205
Metaphor and elaboration in context223
Part III.Influencers and drivers: Bigger pictures
Figurativity: Cognitive, because it’s social243
Conceptual blending and memes265
How to talk about motion without verbs293
Defaultness vs. constructionism: The case of default constructional sarcasm and default non-constructional literalness305
Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication325
Index357
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