Figurative thought and language in action / edited by Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó.

"The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamenta...

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Other Authors: Brdar, Mario (Editor), Brdar-Szabó, Rita (Editor)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Figurative thought and language ; v. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Figurative thought and language research in the 21st century: back to the future / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó
  • Modeling figurative thought and language. Important challenges in the study of metaphors / Raymond W. Gibbs
  • A Cognitive Grammar approach to 'metonymy' / Cristiano Broccias
  • Targetting metonymic targets / Mario Brdar and Rita Brdar-Szabó
  • The impact of figurative thought on linguistic structures. The effect of figurative thought on basic level categorization: how categories come to be formed and named / Gábor Győri
  • Reconsidering accounts of the grammaticalization of auxiliaries: the cases of be-going-to and have-perfect / Frank Polzenhagen
  • Physical and communicative force in Caused-Motion constructions: what they entail and what they implicate / Klaus-Uwe Panther
  • Processing of figurative language. Two case studies on irony: embodied simulations and verbal irony comprehension / Herbert L. Colston, Michelle Sims, Maija Pumphrey, Eleanor Kinney, Xina Evangelista, Nathan Vandermolen-Pater and Graham Feeny
  • Verbal and situational irony: on the conceptual mechanisms underlying two patterns of irony / Branimir Belaj and Goran Tanacković
  • Figurative thought and language in use. Metonymies of migration: media discourse about and by migrants / Theresa Catalano and Linda R. Waugh
  • Draining the swamp: creative figurative language in political discourse / Sanja Berberović and Nihada Delibegović Džanić
  • Being in the same boat, in two ways: conflict metaphors in health care / Ágnes Kuna, Naike Bochatay, Sara Kim and Márta Csabai.
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