Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Figuration and grammar
  • ch. 1 Exploiting wh-questions for expressive purposes / Linda L. Thornburg
  • ch. 2 Construing and constructing hyperbole / Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza
  • ch. 3 How to do things with metonymy in discourse / Annalisa Baicchi
  • ch. 4 Cognitive motivation in the linguistic realization of requests in Modern Greek / Evgenia Vassilaki
  • ch. 5 How metonymy and grammar interact: Some effects and constraints in a cross-linguistic perspective / Rita Brdar-Szabo
  • ch. 6 If-clauses and their figurative basis / Angeliki Athanasiadou
  • pt. II Figuration and the lexicon
  • ch. 7 hand in figurative thought and language / Ad Foolen
  • ch. 8 Shakespeare on the shelf, Blue Helmets on the move: Human-related metonymic conceptualization in English and Serbian / Katarina Rasulic
  • ch. 9 Metaphor, conceptual archetypes and subjectification: The case of completion is Up and the polysemy of shang in Chinese / Wei-lun Lu
  • pt. III Figuration from a cultural-anthropological and psycholinguistic perspective
  • ch. 10 Metaphor and metonymy as fanciful "asymmetry" builders / Ioannis Veloudis
  • ch. 11 Pragmatic effects in blended figures: The case of metaphtonymy / Herbert L. Colston
  • ch. 12 psychological reality of spatio-temporal metaphors / Emanuel Bylund.