Figuring out figuration : a cognitive linguistic account

Figuring out figuration : a cognitive linguistic account /

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Main Authors: Peña Cervel, M. Sandra (Author), Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, 1961- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Series:Figurative thought and language ; v. 14.
Subjects:
Figures of speech.
Cognitive grammar.
Pragmatics.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction
  • ch. 2 Figurative thought and language: An overview of approaches
  • 2.1. Introduction: The literal-figurative distinction
  • 2.2. rhetoric tradition
  • 2.3. sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
  • 2.4. Romantic perspective
  • 2.5. psycholinguistic perspective
  • 2.6. Semantic approaches
  • 2.6.1. referentialist view
  • 2.6.2. descriptivist view
  • 2.6.3. Kittays' relational theory of metaphor and Way's DTH theory of metaphor
  • 2.7. Pragmatic approaches
  • 2.7.1. standard pragmatic view
  • 2.7.1.1. Searle and Speech Act Theory
  • 2.7.1.2. Grice and the Cooperative Principle
  • 2.7.2. Relevance Theory and figurative language
  • 2.8. cognitive perspective: The metaphor revolution
  • 2.8.1. Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory
  • 2.8.2. Grady's theory of primary metaphor
  • 2.8.3. Johnson's theory of conflation
  • 2.8.4. Blending Theory
  • 2.8.5. neural theory of language
  • 2.8.6. Figurative language, universality, and cultural variation
  • 2.9. Classifications of figures of speech
  • 2.10. Overcoming the limitations: Foundations of an integrated cognitive-pragmatic approach
  • ch. 3 Foundations of cognitive modeling
  • 3.1. Cognitive models
  • 3.1.1. taxonomy of cognitive models
  • 3.1.1.1. Primary, low, and high levels
  • 3.1.1.2. Non-situational and situational cognitive models: Descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios
  • 3.1.1.3. Non-scalar and scalar cognitive models
  • 3.1.2. Basic and complex models
  • 3.1.2.1. Frame complexes
  • 3.1.2.2. Image-schematic complexes
  • 3.2. Cognitive operations
  • 3.2.1. Cognitive operations affecting linguistic behavior
  • 3.2.1.1. Construal operations
  • 3.2.1.2. Inferential operations
  • 3.2.1.2.1. Inferential formal operations
  • 3.2.1.2.2. Inferential content operations
  • ch. 4 Metaphor and metonymy revisited
  • 4.1. Conceptual Metaphor Theory and subsequent developments
  • 4.2. Tracing the boundary line between metaphor and metonymy
  • 4.3. Metaphor and metonymy in terms of cognitive operations
  • 4.4. typology of metaphor and metonymy
  • 4.4.1. type of cognitive operation licensing the mapping
  • 4.4.2. formal complexity of the mapping system
  • 4.4.3. conceptual complexity of the mapping system
  • 4.4.4. ontological status of the domains involved in the mapping
  • 4.4.5. levels of genericity of the domains involved in the mapping
  • 4.5. Metaphoric and metonymic complexes
  • 4.5.1. Correlation with resemblance
  • 4.5.2. Expansion with reduction
  • 4.5.3. Expansion or reduction with resemblance
  • 4.5.4. Correlation with correlation
  • 4.6. Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar
  • 4.6.1. High-level metaphor and metonymy
  • 4.6.2. Metonymy and anaphora
  • 4.6.3. On the metonymic grounding of Active motion constructions
  • 4.6.4. Metaphor, metonymy, and image-schema transformations
  • 4.7. Metaphor-like figures
  • 4.7.1. Simile
  • 4.7.2. Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism
  • 4.7.3. Analogy, paragon, kenning, and allegory
  • 4.7.4. Synesthesia
  • 4.8. Metonymy-like figures
  • 4.8.1. Hypallage
  • 4.8.2. Antonomasia
  • 4.8.3. Anthimeria
  • 4.8.4. Proverbs
  • 4.8.5. Synecdoche
  • 4.8.6. Merism
  • 4.9. Constraining metaphor and metonymy
  • ch. 5 Hyperbole
  • 5.1. Defining and understanding hyperbole: An outline of descriptive and pragmatic approaches
  • 5.1.1. Hyperbole in rhetoric
  • 5.1.2. Hyperbole in psycholinguistics
  • 5.1.3. Hyperbole in pragmatics
  • 5.1.4. need for a cognitive account of hyperbole
  • 5.2. cognitive perspective
  • 5.2.1. Classifying hyperbole: Coding and inferencing
  • 5.2.2. Hyperbole as a cross-domain mapping
  • 5.2.3. Hyperbolic constructions
  • 5.3. Hyperbole-related figurativeness
  • 5.3.1. account of figures related to hyperbole: Definition and scope
  • 5.3.1.1. Overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis
  • 5.3.1.2. Understatement, meiosis, and litotes
  • 5.3.2. Hyperbole-related figurativeness and cognitive modeling
  • 5.3.2.1. Cognitive modeling in overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis
  • 5.3.2.2. Cognitive modeling in understatement, meiosis, and litotes
  • 5.4. Constraining hyperbole and related figures
  • ch. 6 Irony
  • 6.1. Denning verbal irony: From rhetoric to pragmatics
  • 6.1.1. Traditional approaches
  • 6.1.2. Communicative approaches
  • 6.2. Irony and cognitive modeling
  • 6.3. Towards a synthetic approach to irony
  • 6.3.1. Ironic complexity
  • 6.3.2. Historical uses of irony
  • 6.4. Irony-based figures of speech
  • 6.4.1. Antiphrasis
  • 6.4.2. Sarcasm
  • 6.4.3. Banter
  • 6.4.4. Satire
  • 6.4.5. Prolepsis
  • 6.5. Exploiting cross-domain contrast further: Paradox and oxymoron
  • 6.6. Constraining irony, paradox, and oxymoron
  • ch. 7 Conclusion.

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