Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Figurative thought and language research in the 21st century 1
4. Part 1. Modeling figurative thought and language
5. Important challenges in the study of metaphors 19
6. A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’ 37
7. Targetting metonymic targets 59
8. Part 2. The impact of figurative thought on linguistic structures
9. The effect of figurative thought on basic level categorization 89
10. Reconsidering accounts of the grammaticalization of auxiliaries 113
11. Physical and communicative force in Caused-Motion constructions 141
12. Part 3. Processing of figurative language
13. Embodied simulations and verbal irony comprehension 167
14. Verbal and situational irony 185
15. Part 4. Figurative thought and language in use
16. Metonymies of migration 215
17. Draining the swamp 237
18. Being in the same boat , in two ways 259
19. Index 285