Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Art: My Dancing Mind vii
4. Prologue 1
5. Introduction 11
6. Part I. New windows into cognition and communication
7. Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry Project 31
8. Narrative experiences of metaphor 45
9. Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practice 63
10. Feeling for speaking 77
11. Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communication 95
12. Fictive motion in the wild 109
13. Part II. Account expansion, flexibility, or integration
14. Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor 131
15. Communication, comprehension, and interpretation 143
16. Between embodiment and usage 157
17. Metaphors and meaning-making in young people’s talk about climate change 191
18. Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse 205
19. Metaphor and elaboration in context 223
20. Part III. Influencers and drivers
21. Figurativity 243
22. Conceptual blending and memes 265
23. How to talk about motion without verbs 293
24. Defaultness vs. constructionism 305
25. Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication 325
26. Language happens 341
27. Index 357