Interpreting figurative meaning
Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.
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- Full title :Interpreting figurative meaning / Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr., Herbert L. Colston.
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Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1139366475, 9781139366472, 1280664193, 9781280664199, 9786613641120, 661364112X, 1139379062, 9781139379069, 1139168770, 9781139168779, 1139376209, 9781139376204, 1139377639, 9781139377638, 1139380494, 9781139380492, 1139372211, 9781139372213, 9781107024359, 1107024358, 9781107607279, 1107607272
- oclc:on1241761941
- LC Classification:P40.5.F54
- Dewey Decimal:808.032
Table of Contents
Cover; INTERPRETING FIGURATIVE MEANING; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; 1: Introduction; 2: Identifying Figurative Language; THE UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM OF LITERAL MEANING; LITERAL AND METAPHORIC MEANINGS: A CASE STUDY OF POLYSEMY; THE VARIETIES OF FIGURATIVE MEANING; CONCLUSION; 3: Models of Figurative Language Comprehension; STANDARD PRAGMATIC VIEW; THE DIRECT ACCESS VIEW; CRITICISMS OF THE DIRECT ACCESS VIEW; IMMEDIATE ANALYSIS OF LITERAL AND FIGURATIVE MEANINGS; NEW MODELS AND BEHAVIORAL FINDINGS; Graded Salience View; Underspecification View; Constraint Satisfaction View; Relevance Theory
Conceptual Blending TheoryEmbodied Simulation Theory; Dynamical Systems View; CONCLUSION; 4: Interpreting Specific Figures of Speech; METAPHOR; METONYMY; IDIOMS; PROVERBS; IRONY; CONCLUSIONS; 5: Indeterminacy in Figurative Language Experience; CAN THE MEANINGS OF FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS BE PARAPHRASED?; THE NONLINGUISTIC BASIS OF FIGURATIVE MEANING; CAN FIGURATIVE MEANINGS BE INDIVIDUATED AND COUNTED?; PRAGMATICS AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE; THE DIVERSITY OF UNDERSTANDING EXPERIENCES; THE RHETORICAL FUNCTIONS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE; METAPHOR; METONYMY; Idioms; Proverbs; Irony
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