Producing figurative expression : theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives / edited by John Barnden and Andrew Gargett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnden, John, editor.

Gargett, Andrew D., editor.

Series:

Figurative thought and language ; Volume 10.

Figurative Thought and Language ; Volume 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figures of speech.

Metaphor.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (559 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"This collection contains a selection of recent work on people's production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances people produce figurative expression and how it is moulded by their aims. By focusing on production, the intention is to help stimulate more academic research on it and redress historically lower levels of published work on generation than on understanding of figurative expression. The contributions stretch across various academic disciplines-mainly psychology, cognitive linguistics and applied linguistics, but with a representation also of philosophy and artificial intelligence-and across different types of endeavour-theoretical investigation and model building, experimental studies, and applications focussed work (for instance, figurative expression in product design and online support groups). There is also a wide-ranging introductory chapter that touches on areas outside the scope of the contributed articles and discusses difficult issues such as a complex interplay of production and understanding"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

Section 1. General empirical studies, with main focus on metaphor

Producing metaphor (and other forms of non-literal language) in the laboratory

Metaphor and one-off pictures

Metaphor production and metaphor interpretation

On the role of perceptual similarity in producing visual metaphors

Section 2. General empirical studies – other

On why people don’t say what they mean

How nice does it sound?

How defaultness shapes our language production

Producing figurative meanings

The production of verbal irony

Section 3. Empirical and analytical studies aimed at specific applications

Generating metaphors in product design

Rock bottoms, juggling balls and coalprints

Figurative production in a computer-mediated discussion forum

The production of time-related metaphors by people who have experienced pregnancy loss

Section 4. Other theoretical analysis and cognitive or computational modelling

Metaphor generation through context sensitive distributional semantics

Mind the gap

Figurative language

Metaphor as sign and as symbol

Topic Index

Author Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.