Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage / edited by Augusto Soares da Silva.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soares da Silva, Augusto, editor.

Series:

Figurative thought and language ; Volume 11.

Figurative Thought and Language Series ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figures of speech--Congresses.

Figures of speech.

Cognitive grammar--Congresses.

Cognitive grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and usage from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The studies explore the impact of figurativity on areas of lexicon and grammar, on real discourse, and across different semiotic systems. Some studies focus on the psychological processes of the comprehension of figurativity; other studies address the ways in which figures of thought and language are socially shared and the variation of figures through time and space. Moreover, some contributions are established on advanced corpus-based techniques and experimental methods. There are studies about metaphor, metonymy, irony and puns; about related processes, such as humor, empathy and ambiguation; and about the interaction between figures. Overall, this volume offers the advantages and the opportunities of an interactional and usage-based perspective of figurativity, embracing both the psychological and the intersubjective reality of figurative thought and language and empirically emphasizing the multidimensional character of figurativity, its central function in thought, and its impact on everyday communication"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction. Figurative language

Part I. Intersubjectivity and interaction

Second-order empathy, pragmatic ambiguity, and irony

Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation & Sedimentation Model and motion-emotion metaphoremes

Evaluating metaphor accounts via their pragmatic effects

The multimodal negotiation of irony and humor in interaction

Part II. Mechanisms and processes

Metaphor and irony

Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis

On verbal and situational irony

On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings

Part III. Usage and variation

Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy

Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration

The fabric of metaphor in discourse

Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon

Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

1252419828