Studies in Figurative Thought and Language
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This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored include metaphor, metonymy and their relationship to each other, as well as the less studied figure of hyperbole and its relation to the fundamental figures of metaphor and metonymy. Collectively, the papers examine the pragmatic reasoning processes triggered by figurative thought, the lexicogrammatical motivations and/or constraints on figurative language, the impact of deeply entrenched figurative thought on the lexicon of natural languages, the cultural origins of figurative thought, and the psycholinguistic motivations for figuration. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on figurative thought and language, particularly on questions of universality vs. specificity of figuration, the impact of figuration on constructions, cross-linguistic comparisons of figurative language, and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to figurative meaning.

Table of Contents:
1. Editor and contributors; 2. Foreword; 3. Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar? (by Athanasiadou, Angeliki); 4. Part I. Figuration and grammar; 5. Chapter 1. Exploitingwh-questions for expressive purposes (by Panther, Klaus-Uwe); 6. Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole (by Pena Cervel, Maria Sandra); 7. Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse (by Baicchi, Annalisa); 8. Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek (by Vassilaki, Evgenia); 9. Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact: Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective (by Brdar, Mario); 10. Chapter 6. If-clauses and their figurative basis (by Athanasiadou, Angeliki); 11. Part II. Figuration and the lexicon; 12. Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language (by Foolen, Ad); 13. Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move: Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian (by Rasulic, Katarina); 14. Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: The case ofcompletion is upand the polysemy ofshangin Chinese (by Lu, Wei-lun); 15. Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective; 16. Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful "asymmetry" builders (by Veloudis, Ioannis); 17. Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures: The case of metaphtonymy (by Colston, Herbert L.); 18. Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors (by Athanasopoulos, Panos); 19. Name index; 20. Subject index


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  • ISBN-13: 9789027246721
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 327
  • Weight: 745 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9027246726
  • Publisher Date: 26 Apr 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 337
  • Series Title: 56 Human Cognitive Processing


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