Figurative meaning construction in thought and language
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"This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial t…
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- Full title :Figurative meaning construction in thought and language / edited by Annalisa Baicchi.
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"This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models"--
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- Publication Date:2020
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- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
Notes
Papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language, November, 2015 at the University of Pavia, Italy.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 311 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027207050, 9027207054
- oclc:on1145560980
- LC Classification:P165
- Dewey Decimal:410.1/835
Table of Contents
Figurativeness all the way down : by way of introduction / Annalisa Baicchi -- Addition, identification and structure : metaphor thoughtfully / John Barnden -- Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat / Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó and Benedikt Perak -- A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages / Zoltán Kövecses -- Intensification via figurative language / Angeliki Athanasiadou -- Falling to one's death in multiple landscapes : from blending to typology / Cristiano Broccias -- Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese / Sabine De Knop -- Metonymy meets coercion : the case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and predicative constructions in Spanish / Francisco Gonzálvez-García -- Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole / Herbert L. Colston and Ann Carreno -- Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy / Marcin Kuczok -- Figures of speech revisited : introducing syntonymy and syntaphor / Bogusław Bierwiaczonek -- Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the motivation and sedimentation model / Simon Devylder and Jordan Zlatev -- The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regula…
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