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Intensification via figurative language
Abstract
Figurative language, generally speaking, involves intended meaning; it is employed in order to communicate something beyond the very meaning of the elements of a construction. This is largely accomplished by the incongruence of domains, scripts, frames or entities that participate in the conceptualization and the expression of figuration. Irony, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or metonymy are witnessed to come to the surface, depending on the degree of incongruity between sources and targets. Each figurative process highlights different degrees of intensification. Intensification seems also to be due not only to the type of figure but to two additional parameters as well: the evocation of more than one figure and the special constructional patterns of the usage involved.
Abstract
Figurative language, generally speaking, involves intended meaning; it is employed in order to communicate something beyond the very meaning of the elements of a construction. This is largely accomplished by the incongruence of domains, scripts, frames or entities that participate in the conceptualization and the expression of figuration. Irony, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or metonymy are witnessed to come to the surface, depending on the degree of incongruity between sources and targets. Each figurative process highlights different degrees of intensification. Intensification seems also to be due not only to the type of figure but to two additional parameters as well: the evocation of more than one figure and the special constructional patterns of the usage involved.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword and acknowledgements vii
- Figurativeness all the way down 1
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Part I. Figurativeness and theory
- Metaphor thoughtfully 13
- Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
- A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
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Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
- Intensification via figurative language 91
- Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
- Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
- Metonymy meets coercion 151
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Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
- Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
- Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
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Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
- Figures of speech revisited 225
- Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
- The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
- Index 309
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword and acknowledgements vii
- Figurativeness all the way down 1
-
Part I. Figurativeness and theory
- Metaphor thoughtfully 13
- Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
- A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
-
Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
- Intensification via figurative language 91
- Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
- Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
- Metonymy meets coercion 151
-
Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
- Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
- Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
-
Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
- Figures of speech revisited 225
- Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
- The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
- Index 309
