Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction. Figurative language 1
6. Part I. Intersubjectivity and interaction
7. Second-order empathy, pragmatic ambiguity, and irony 19
8. Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation & Sedimentation Model and motion-emotion metaphoremes 41
9. Evaluating metaphor accounts via their pragmatic effects 75
10. The multimodal negotiation of irony and humor in interaction 109
11. Part II. Mechanisms and processes
12. Metaphor and irony 139
13. Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis 175
14. On verbal and situational irony 213
15. On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings 241
16. Part III. Usage and variation
17. Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy 287
18. Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration 307
19. The fabric of metaphor in discourse 339
20. Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon 357
21. Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese 387
22. Index 439