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   Understanding Figurative Language: From Metaphors to Idioms » Read Now

   by Sam Glucksberg. 134 pgs.

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   This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves...

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   This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves the same kinds of linguistic and pragmatic operations that are used for ordinary, literal language. Glucksberg's research in this book is concerned with ordinary language: expressions that are used in daily life, including conversations about everyday matters, newspaper and magazine articles, and the media. Metaphor is the major focus of the book. Idioms, however, are also treated comprehensively, as is the theory of conceptual metaphor in the context of how people understand both conventional and novel figurative expressions. A new theory of metaphor comprehension is put forward, and evaluated with respect to competing theories in linguistics and in psychology. The central tenet of the theory is that ordinary conversational metaphors are used to create new concepts and categories. This process is spontaneous and automatic. Metaphor is special only in the sense that these catagories get their names from the best examples of the things they represent, and that these categories get their names from the best examples of those categories. Thus, the literal "shark" can be a metaphor for any vicious and predatory being, from unscrupulous salespeople to a murderous character in The Threepenny Opera. Because the same term, e.g.,"shark," is used both for its literal referent and for the metaphorical category, as in "My lawyer is a shark," we call it the dual-reference theory. The theory is then extended to two other domains: idioms and conceptual metaphors. The book presents the first comprehensive account of how people use and understand metaphors in everyday life.

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   On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language » Read Now

   by Rachel Giora. 259 pgs.

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   How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory, the Graded Salience Hypothesis, to explain...

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   How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in metaphor, irony, and jokes. Rachel Giora has developed a novel and comprehensive theory, the Graded Salience Hypothesis, to explain figuative language comprehension. Giora contends that the salience of meanings (i.e., the cognitive priority we ascribe to words encoded in our mental lexicon) has the primary role inlanguage comprehension and production.

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   Psychology and the Poetics of Growth: Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education » Read Now

   by Jack M. Barlow, Harold J. Fine, Howard R. Pollio, Marilyn R. Pollio. 262 pgs.

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   Handbook of Reading Research, Vol. 1 (Chap. 15 "Understanding Figurative Language") » Read Now

   by P. David Pearson. 899 pgs.

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   Social and Cognitive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication (Part II "Indirect Speech and Figurative Language") » Read Now

   by Susan R. Fussell, Roger J. Kreuz. 298 pgs.

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   Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk (Chap. 4 "Figures of Speech") » Read Now

   by Ronald Carter. 258 pgs.

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   Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising. In Language and Creativity Ronald Carter...

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   Language and Creativity explores the creativity inherent in everyday spoken language.Creativity in language has conventionally been regarded as the preserve of institutionalised discourses such as canonical literature and the discourse of advertising. In Language and Creativity Ronald Carter analyses naturally-occurring spoken language to reveal that ordinary people in everyday speech contexts demonstrate creative capacities for sensitivity to their contexts. Illustrated with examples, and integrating current theory in both language and literature studies, the book underlines the importance of the creative choice, automaticity and repetition which is involved in informal communication.

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   Semantics: Defining the Discipline (Chap. 6 "Metaphor and Related Figures of Speech" and Chap. 7 "Contrastive Figures of Speech") » Read Now

   by Robert A. Hipkiss. 123 pgs.

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   Idioms: Processing, Structure, and Interpretation ("Literal and Figurative Language" begins on p. 101) » Read Now

   by Cristina Cacciari, Patrizia Tabossi. 337 pgs.

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   Metaphor: Implications and Applications » Read Now

   by Albert N. Katz, Jeffery Scott Mio. 269 pgs.

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    A Proverb in Mind: The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom (Chap. 2 "The Tangle of Figurative Language") » Read Now

    by Richard P. Honeck. 308 pgs.

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    The Verbal Communication of Emotions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Part II "Figurative Language in Emotional Communication") » Read Now

    by Susan R. Fussell. 294 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library