Figurative thought and language in action / edited by Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brdar, Mario, editor.

Brdar-Szabó, Rita, editor.

Series:

Figurative Thought and Language

Figurative Thought and Language ; v.16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figures of speech.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]

Summary:

The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics.

Contents:

Figurative thought and language research in the 21st century: back to the future / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó

Modeling figurative thought and language. Important challenges in the study of metaphors / Raymond W. Gibbs

A Cognitive Grammar approach to 'metonymy' / Cristiano Broccias

Targetting metonymic targets / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó

The impact of figurative thought on linguistic structures. The effect of figurative thought on basic level categorization: how categories come to be formed and named / Gábor Győri

Reconsidering accounts of the grammaticalization of auxiliaries: the cases of be-going-to and have-perfect / Frank Polzenhagen

Physical and communicative force in Caused-Motion constructions: what they entail and what they implicate / Klaus-Uwe Panther

Processing of figurative language. Two case studies on irony: embodied simulations and verbal irony comprehension / Herbert L. Colston, Michelle Sims, Maija Pumphrey, Eleanor Kinney, Xina Evangelista, Nathan Vandermolen-Pater and Graham Feeny

Verbal and situational irony: on the conceptual mechanisms underlying two patterns of irony / Branimir Belaj and Goran Tanacković

Figurative thought and language in use. Metonymies of migration: media discourse about and by migrants / Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh

Draining the swamp: creative figurative language in political discourse / Sanja Berberović and Nihada Delibegović Džanić

Being in the same boat, in two ways: conflict metaphors in health care / Ágnes Kuna, Naike Bochatay, Sara Kim and Márta Csabai.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Brdar, Mario Figurative Thought and Language in Action

ISBN:

9789027257611

9027257612