Using figurative language
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Using figurative language
Cambridge University Press, 2019, c2015
1st pbk. ed
- : pbk
Available at / 6 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Originally published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-262) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: why don't people say what they mean?
- 2. What is a pragmatic effect?
- 3. What are the pragmatic effects?
- 4. How is figurative language used?
- 5. What is figurative language use?
- 6. Conclusion: meaning happens.
by "Nielsen BookData"