Tony Veale

Tony Veale

List of John Benjamins publications for which Tony Veale plays a role.

Book series

Journal

Articles

Metaphors come as second nature to users of language because they are so often the norm. We trade in them deftly, to the point of seeming indifference to, and sometimes even ignorance of, their figurative natures. But the opposite is also true, since words that are offered with the plainest of… read more | Chapter
A large repository of familiar linguistic metaphors is also an implicit repository of the knowledge any agent needs to generate and understand novel linguistic metaphors. Moreover, a sufficiently large repository of resonant juxtapositions is a rich source of the potential metaphors that an active… read more | Chapter
Veale, Tony. 2013. Strategies and tactics for ironic subversion. Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 321–340
Ironic descriptions subvert the norms of descriptive language. Norms have highly salient exemplars – shared stereotypes – on which speakers can draw to create a vivid description, but ironic speakers instead construct their own counter-examples, often identifying exceptional cases where the… read more | Article
Veale, Tony. 2012. Chapter 15. A computational exploration of creative similes. Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 329–344
The syntactic form of explicit as-similes provides a ready-made infrastructure for linguistic creativity that writers and speakers can exploit with remarkable freedom. This chapter adopts a computational approach to similes, asking: what kinds of knowledge must a computational agent possess so as… read more | Chapter
Article
Article