Studies in figurative thought and language / edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Athanasiadou, Angeliki, editor.

Series:

Human Cognitive Processing ; 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Metonyms.

Figures of speech.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Editor and contributors

Foreword

Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar?

1. The pervasiveness of figurative thinking in language

2. The contributions to the present volume

3. Desiderata for future research

References

Chapter 1. Exploiting wh-questions for expressive purposes

1. Introduction

2. The Wh-x do you think [comp-cl…] construction

3. Neutral question sense vs. expressive sense

4. Expressivity in the Wh-x do you think [comp-cl…] construction

5. The What do you think you are doing? construction

6. Conclusions and outlook

Acknowledgements

Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole

2. A brief note on methodology and corpus selection

3. Creating mental models of how we perceive the world

4. A cognitive-linguistic approach to hyperbole

5. Hyperbolic constructions

6. Constraints on hyperbole

7. Conclusions

Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse

2. Illocution and conceptual metonymy

3. The Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model

4. Interrogative sentence type and illocutionary constructions

5. The Thinking-for-Metonymic-Speaking process

6. Concluding remarks

Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek

2. The conceptual make-up of requests

3. Realization procedures of the speech act of request in Modern Greek

4. Conclusion

References.

Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact: Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspectiveSome effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective

2. How metonymy and grammar interact

3. Summing up

Abbreviations

Chapter 6. If-clauses and their figurative basis

2. Hypothetical conditionals

3. Course of events conditionals

4. Concluding remarks

Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language

2. The special status of the hand

3. The hand as a target domain

4. Hand as a source domain

5. A special target domain: Numerals

6. Laterality

7. Conclusion

Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move: Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move: Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and SerbianHuman-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian

2. Theoretical background

3. Data and approach

4. Results and discussion

5. Concluding remarks

Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: The case of completion is up and the polysemy of shàng in ChineseThe case of completion is up and the polysemy of shàng in Chinese

1. Metaphor, polysemy and the semantics of shàng

2. Senses of shàng relevant to completion is up

3. Subjectivity, subjectification and conceptual archetypes in the semantics of shàng

4. Concluding remarks: Image schemas, conceptual archetypes and metaphors

Database consulted.

Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful "asymmetry" builders: Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful "asymmetry" builders

1. Exaggerated stimuli

2. The interaction between metaphor and metonymy

3. Back to the 'peak shift effect'

4. Epilogue

Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures: The case of metaphtonymy

2. Figures in isolation

3. Blended figures

Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors: The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors

2. Motion through time

3. Temporal succession

4. Duration estimation

5. Conclusion

Name index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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