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Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
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Annalisa Baicchi
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English
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2020
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This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective.
The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.
The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.
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Table of contents
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Foreword and acknowledgements
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Figurativeness all the way down
1 - Part I. Figurativeness and theory
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Metaphor thoughtfully
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Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat
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A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages
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Intensification via figurative language
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Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes
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Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese
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Metonymy meets coercion
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Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole
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Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy
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Figures of speech revisited
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Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model
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The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making
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Index
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July 21, 2020
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9789027261021
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311
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Professional and scholarly;
