Editor and contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor and contributors vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction. Figurative thought, figurative language, figurative grammar? 1
6. Part I. Figuration and grammar
7. Chapter 1. Exploiting wh -questions for expressive purposes 17
8. Chapter 2. Construing and constructing hyperbole 41
9. Chapter 3. How to do things with metonymy in discourse 75
10. Chapter 4. Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek 105
11. Chapter 5. How metonymy and grammar interact 125
12. Chapter 6. If -clauses and their figurative basis 151
13. Part II. Figuration and the lexicon
14. Chapter 7. The hand in figurative thought and language 179
15. Chapter 8. Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move 199
16. Chapter 9. Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification 231
17. Part III. Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
18. Chapter 10. Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful “asymmetry” builders 253
19. Chapter 11. Pragmatic effects in blended figures 273
20. Chapter 12. The psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors 295
21. Name index 323
22. Subject index 325