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Figurative language comprehension : social and cultural influences / edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics.
- Figures of speech--Social aspects.
- Figures of speech.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. These influences include gender, cultural differences, economic status, and inter-group effects, among others. The effects these influences have on people's use, comprehension, and even processing
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; 1 On Sociocultural and Nonliteral: A Synopsis and a Prophesy; 2 Making Sense of How We Make Sense: The Paradox of Egocentrism in Language Use; 3 Contextual Expressions and Common Ground; 4 Context and the Comprehension of Nonliteral Meanings; 5 Social and Cultural Influences on Figurative and Indirect Language; 6 Irony as Persuasive Communication; 7 Do Men and Women Differ in Their Use of Nonliteral Language When They Talk About Emotions?; 8 Discourse and Sociocultural Factors in Understanding Nonliteral Language
- 9 Social Factors in the Interpretation of Verbal Irony: The Roles of Speaker and Listener Characteristics10 Explicit Negation as Positivity in Disguise; 11 Stereotype Processing and Nonliteral Language; 12 On Mosquitoes and Camels: Some Notes on the Interpretation of Metaphorically Transparent Popular Sayings; 13 Metaphors in Sign Language and Sign Language Users: A Window Into Relations of Language and Thought; Author Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-32271-0
- 9786612322716
- 1-4106-1162-0
- 9781410611628
- OCLC:
- 299570389
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