Metaphor and communication / edited by Elisabetta Gola, Francesca Ervas, University of Cagliari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gola, Elisabetta, editor.

Ervas, Francesca, editor.

Series:

Metaphor in language, cognition, and communication ; v. 5.

Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 2210-4836 ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Communication.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of metaphor have specific features that differentiate it from its linguistic and cognitive dimensions? And how could these specific properties of communication change our understanding of the linguistic and cognitive dimensions of metaphor? The authors of the papers collected in this volume offer answers to these questions that raise new interests in metaphor and communication.

Contents:

Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view?; 1. Introduction; 2. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; 2.1 Corpus data; 2.2 Speakers' behaviour; 3. The communicative dimension of metaphor; 3.1 Persuasion in politics; 3.2 Persuasion in media and advertising; 3.3 Instruction and entertainment in education and arts; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Part I. The cognitive and linguistic dimension of metaphor; Metaphor and simile: Categorizing and comparing categorization and comparison; 1. Introduction

2. The Comparison/Categorization debate3. Ellipsis-based mischaracterization of Comparison theory; 4. Towards an alternative battlefield; 4.1 Target/Source contribution disparity; 4.2 Target/Source mediator-preservation degree; 4.3 Mediator carefulness; 5. An example of the application of the dimensions; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Linguistic synaesthesia; 1.2 Taste: A few words for a complex experience; 2. A corpus-based analysis of taste synaesthesias; 2.1 The corpus; 2.2 Results

3. Metaphors of taste3.1 The semantics of taste: A paradox?; 3.2 Grounded taste metaphors; 3.3 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Selling and buying, killing and wounding: (Un)conventional metaphors from two different sema; 1. Introduction; 2. The corpus study: Identifying more and less conventional metaphors; 2.1 Theoretical considerations: Conventionality and frequency; 2.2 Method and results; 3. Metaphorical commercial events; 4. The field of bodily harm; 5. Linking low-level creativity and high-level conventionality: The notion of intersubjectivity; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgement

ReferencesMetaphors, bilingual mental lexicon and distributional models; 1. Introduction; 2. Procedure; 3. Analysis; 4. Discussion; 5. General discussion and conclusions; References; Author's address; Appendix A; Appendix B; Towards a model of metaphorical understanding; 1. Introduction; 2. Metaphorical understanding; 3. On propositional understanding; 4. On imagistic understanding; 5. On the sensorimotor aspects of imagery; 6. Modelling imagistic component in metaphor understanding; 7. Communicating with metaphors: Believing game and doubting game

8. Towards a unified model of understanding

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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