“Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds”: Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Metaphor, Simile and Truth
5. Metaphor, empiricism and truth: A fresh look at seventeenth-century theories of figurative language 21
6. Metaphor and truth in Rationalism and Romanticism 51
7. Persuasion: between trope and truth 73
8. Metaphor and its unparalleled meaning and truth 85
9. Truth, metaphor and counterfactual meaning 123
10. ‘Metaphorical’ truth conditions, context, and discourse 137
11. Metaphorical modes of perception and scanning. A comparative study of Japanese and English 157
12. Natural Language Processing: Minds, brains, and programmes 177
13. Pear-shaped and pint-sized: Comparative compounds, similes and truth 213
14. “Money is ruthlessly finding its own level”: Metaphor and metonymy in verb semantics 227
15. 2. Metonymy, Synecdoche and Truth
16. Between poetry and economy Metonymy as a semantic principle 243
17. Metonymy in conceptualization, communication, language, and truth 271
18. Synecdoche: A trope, a whole trope, and nothing but a trope? 297
19. 3. Other Tropes and Truth
20. Eironeia urbana 321
21. Irony, analogy and truth 339
22. Euphemism and truth 355
23. Princess Antonomasia and the Truth: Two Types of Metonymic Relations 373
24. “Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds”: Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles 383