The Production Of Figurative Language
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| Author | : Michael Spivey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1297 |
| Release | : 2012-08-20 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1139536141 |
Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by trailblazers from a wide array of subfields, who have been shaping the field of psycholinguistics over the last decade. Some topics discussed include how children learn language, how average adults understand and produce language, how language is represented in the brain, how brain-damaged individuals perform in terms of their language abilities and computer-based models of language and meaning. This is required reading for advanced researchers, graduate students and upper-level undergraduates who are interested in the recent developments and the future of psycholinguistics.
| Author | : Ioannis Galantomos |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2021-09-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1527574938 |
During L2 vocabulary instruction, figurative language frustrates even highly proficient users who find it difficult to cope with non-literal expressions, such as metaphors, metonymies, and idioms. Given that figurative language is closely associated with enhanced L2 communicative competence, this volume brings together theory and teaching applications, shedding light on the comprehension and production of figurative language in a foreign language context.
| Author | : Herbert L. Colston |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2015-11-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 110710565X |
Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?'
| Author | : Annalisa Baicchi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2020-08-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027261024 |
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.
| Author | : John Barnden |
| Publisher | : Figurative Thought and Language |
| Total Pages | : 549 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Cognitive grammar |
| ISBN | : 9789027208033 |
This collection contains a selection of recent work on people's production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances people produce figurative expression and how it is moulded by their aims. By focusing on production, the intention is to help stimulate more academic research on it and redress historically lower levels of published work on generation than on understanding of figurative expression. The contributions stretch across various academic disciplines--mainly psychology, cognitive linguistics and applied linguistics, but with a representation also of philosophy and artificial intelligence--and across different types of endeavour--theoretical investigation and model building, experimental studies, and applications focussed work (for instance, figurative expression in product design and online support groups). There is also a wide-ranging introductory chapter that touches on areas outside the scope of the contributed articles and discusses difficult issues such as a complex interplay of production and understanding.
| Author | : Augusto Soares da Silva |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2021-05-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027260036 |
Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and usage from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The studies explore the impact of figurativity on areas of lexicon and grammar, on real discourse, and across different semiotic systems. Some studies focus on the psychological processes of the comprehension of figurativity; other studies address the ways in which figures of thought and language are socially shared and the variation of figures through time and space. Moreover, some contributions are established on advanced corpus-based techniques and experimental methods. There are studies about metaphor, metonymy, irony and puns; about related processes, such as humor, empathy and ambiguation; and about the interaction between figures. Overall, this volume offers the advantages and the opportunities of an interactional and usage-based perspective of figurativity, embracing both the psychological and the intersubjective reality of figurative thought and language and empirically emphasizing the multidimensional character of figurativity, its central function in thought, and its impact on everyday communication.
| Author | : Honesto Herrera-Soler |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2012-07-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110274582 |
While the role of metaphor in economics and business has produced multiple research articles, no comprehensive book-length study has yet appeared. The present book is a timely attempt to fill this gap, giving a global coverage of the role of metaphor in business and economics. It spans time (from Classical Greece to the current business network meeting-room), space (from Europe through the Americas to Asia), cultures and languages (from continental European languages, Brazilian Portuguese to Chinese). The theoretical grounding of the book is the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor taken in a dynamic sense as evolving with on-going research. The theory is thus used, adapted and refined in accordance with the evidence provided. Metaphor is shown to be theory constitutive in the elaboration of economic thinking down through the ages while, at the same time, the emphasis on evidence open to historical, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic considerations align with the current notion of situatedness. The book is a rich source of information for researchers and students in the fields of Metaphor Studies, Economics, Discourse Analysis, and Communication Studies, among others.
| Author | : Marianna Bolognesi |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2019-08-06 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027262292 |
This book describes methods, risks, and challenges involved in the construction of metaphor and metonymy digital repositories. The first part of this volume showcases established and new projects around the world in which metaphors and metonymies are harvested and classified. The second part provides a series of cognitive linguistic studies focused on highlighting and discussing theoretical and methodological risks and challenges involved in building these digital resources. The volume is a result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cognitive linguists, psychologists, and computational scientists supporting an overarching idea that metaphor and metonymy play a central role in human cognition, and that they are deeply entrenched in recurring patterns of bodily experience. Throughout the volume, a variety of methods are proposed to collect and analyze both conceptual metaphors and metonymies and their linguistic and visual expressions.
| Author | : Kate Scott |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2019-07-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1108418635 |
Showcases recent research by leading scholars working within the relevance-theoretic pragmatics framework.
| Author | : Herbert L. Colston |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2015-11-19 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1316445283 |
Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?' This research empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly, meaning effects wrought by figurative language usage. These 'pragmatic effects' arise from many kinds of figurative language including metaphors (e.g. 'This computer is a dinosaur'), verbal irony (e.g. 'Nice place you got here'), idioms (e.g. 'Bite the bullet'), proverbs (e.g. 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket') and others. Reviewed studies explore mechanisms - linguistic, psychological, social and others - underlying pragmatic effects, some traced to basic processes embedded in human sensory, perceptual, embodied, cognitive, social and schematic functioning. The book should interest readers, researchers and scholars in fields beyond psychology, linguistics and philosophy that share interests in figurative language - including language studies, communication, literary criticism, neuroscience, semiotics, rhetoric and anthropology.
