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Narrative experiences of metaphor

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the impact of narrative contexts on readers’ experiences of metaphor. We begin by reviewing extant theories of metaphor processing to offer an analysis of contextual effects on readers’ metaphor understanding. Next, we outline a dual process perspective that suggests how readers’ experiences of metaphor are guided by both intuitive and reflective processes. We suggest that the separate function of those processes may transform readers’ experiences of metaphor quality. Finally, we explore readers’ individual responses to metaphors as a product of their accumulation of knowledge through distinct life experiences. Throughout the chapter, we support our analyses with examples from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Less (Greer, 2017).

Abstract

This chapter discusses the impact of narrative contexts on readers’ experiences of metaphor. We begin by reviewing extant theories of metaphor processing to offer an analysis of contextual effects on readers’ metaphor understanding. Next, we outline a dual process perspective that suggests how readers’ experiences of metaphor are guided by both intuitive and reflective processes. We suggest that the separate function of those processes may transform readers’ experiences of metaphor quality. Finally, we explore readers’ individual responses to metaphors as a product of their accumulation of knowledge through distinct life experiences. Throughout the chapter, we support our analyses with examples from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Less (Greer, 2017).

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Art: My Dancing Mind vii
  4. Prologue 1
  5. Introduction 11
  6. Part I. New windows into cognition and communication
  7. Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry Project 31
  8. Narrative experiences of metaphor 45
  9. Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practice 63
  10. Feeling for speaking 77
  11. Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communication 95
  12. Fictive motion in the wild 109
  13. Part II. Account expansion, flexibility, or integration
  14. Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor 131
  15. Communication, comprehension, and interpretation 143
  16. Between embodiment and usage 157
  17. Metaphors and meaning-making in young people’s talk about climate change 191
  18. Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse 205
  19. Metaphor and elaboration in context 223
  20. Part III. Influencers and drivers
  21. Figurativity 243
  22. Conceptual blending and memes 265
  23. How to talk about motion without verbs 293
  24. Defaultness vs. constructionism 305
  25. Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication 325
  26. Language happens 341
  27. Index 357
Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
https://doi.org/10.1075/milcc.9.02ger

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Art: My Dancing Mind vii
  4. Prologue 1
  5. Introduction 11
  6. Part I. New windows into cognition and communication
  7. Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry Project 31
  8. Narrative experiences of metaphor 45
  9. Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practice 63
  10. Feeling for speaking 77
  11. Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communication 95
  12. Fictive motion in the wild 109
  13. Part II. Account expansion, flexibility, or integration
  14. Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor 131
  15. Communication, comprehension, and interpretation 143
  16. Between embodiment and usage 157
  17. Metaphors and meaning-making in young people’s talk about climate change 191
  18. Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse 205
  19. Metaphor and elaboration in context 223
  20. Part III. Influencers and drivers
  21. Figurativity 243
  22. Conceptual blending and memes 265
  23. How to talk about motion without verbs 293
  24. Defaultness vs. constructionism 305
  25. Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication 325
  26. Language happens 341
  27. Index 357
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