Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword and acknowledgements vii
4. Figurativeness all the way down 1
5. Part I. Figurativeness and theory
6. Metaphor thoughtfully 13
7. Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45
8. A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71
9. Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
10. Intensification via figurative language 91
11. Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes 107
12. Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129
13. Metonymy meets coercion 151
14. Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
15. Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187
16. Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209
17. Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
18. Figures of speech revisited 225
19. Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253
20. The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283
21. Index 309