Metaphor and Communication
Edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 5] 2016. vi, 289 pp.
Francesca Ervas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Ervas plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Articles
2020 How nice does it sound? An argumentative approach to the affective aspects of irony production Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John and Andrew Gargett (eds.), pp. 175–210 | Chapter
The chapter presents irony as a form of the reductio ad absurdum argument having a specific emotional charge, which cannot be found either in literal arguments or in other arguments containing figurative language. The claim of the chapter is that irony production depends on the ironist’s ability… read more
2016 Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach
beyond the conceptual view? Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article
This chapter aims to introduce metaphors from two different perspectives:
cognitive-linguistic and communicative. In presenting these views, we refer to
Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors (1980) which influenced
the evolving field of metaphor studies and its applications to related… read more