Figurative Language - Intersubjectivity and Usage

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"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, intersubjectivit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soares da Silva, Augusto
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Colección:Figurative Thought and Language Ser.
Temas:
Figures of speech > Congresses.
Cognitive grammar > Congresses.
Grammaire cognitive > Congrès.
Cognitive grammar
Figures of speech
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Figurative Language
  • Intersubjectivity and Usage
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction. Figurative language: Intersubjectivity and usage
  • 1. Figurative language, intersubjectivity and usage
  • 2. Social and empirical turn in figurativity research
  • 3. Overview of the sections and contributions
  • 3.1 Part one. Intersubjectivity and interaction
  • 3.2 Part two. Mechanisms and processes
  • 3.3 Part three. Usage and variation
  • References
  • Part I. Intersubjectivity and interaction
  • Second-order empathy, pragmatic ambiguity, and irony
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Demarcations
  • 3. Ambiguities
  • 3.1 Referential ambiguity
  • 3.2 Speech-act-related ambiguity
  • 3.3 Sociocommunicative ambiguity
  • 3.4 Non-verbal empathic ambiguity
  • 4. Representatives
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • Desiderata for metaphor theory, the Motivation andamp
  • Sedimentation Model and motion-emotion metaphoremes
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Five desiderata for a contemporary theory of metaphor
  • 2.1 Combining communication and cognition
  • 2.2 Combining the universal and the culture-specific
  • 2.3 Combining stable and dynamic aspects
  • 2.4 Metaphors across semiotic systems
  • 2.5 Explicit theoretical and operational definitions
  • 2.6 Summary
  • 3. Metaphor within the Motivation andamp
  • Sedimentation Model
  • 4. Comparing motion-emotion metaphoremes across languages
  • 4.1 General considerations
  • 4.2 Methodology
  • 4.3 Results
  • 4.4 Summary
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Evaluating metaphor accounts via their pragmatic effects
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metaphor accounts
  • 2.1 Similarity
  • 2.2 Categorization
  • 2.3 Conceptual metaphor
  • 2.4 Blending
  • 2.5 Embodied simulation.
  • 3. Varyingly structured metaphors
  • 4. Predictions of metaphor accounts
  • 4.1 Similarity predictions
  • 4.2 Categorization predictions
  • 4.3 Conceptual metaphor predictions
  • 4.4 Blending predictions
  • 4.5 Embodied simulation predictions
  • 5. Experiments
  • 5.1 Participants
  • 5.2 Materials
  • 5.3 Results
  • 5.5 Discussion
  • References
  • Appendix. Contexts and utterances used in the Experiments
  • The multimodal negotiation of irony and humor in interaction: On the role of eye gaze in joint pretense
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Irony and humor in interaction
  • 3. Eye gaze in interaction
  • 4. Eye gaze and interactional humor
  • 5. Research questions and data set
  • 6. A micro-analysis of selected sequences
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part II. Mechanisms and processes
  • Metaphor and irony: Messy when mixed
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Examples of irony/metaphor mixing
  • 2.1 Some examples suitable for irony-upon-metaphor
  • 2.2 An example suitable for metaphor-upon-irony
  • 3. A (non-fatal) problem with metaphor-upon-irony analyses
  • 3.1 The potential and cost of metaphor-upon-irony analysis
  • 3.2 Pasta and siestas revisited
  • 3.3 A middle way
  • 4. The ironicity-first processing strategy
  • 5. Further discussion: When other analyses are appropriate
  • 5.1 Contrast-imbued analogy and metaphor
  • 5.2 Parallel versus serial mixing of irony and metaphor
  • 5.3 Metaphor within attitude-wrapped irony
  • 5.4 Hyperbole in metaphor/irony mixtures
  • 6. Summary and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis: Getting two (or more) targets for the price of one vehicle
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Metonymic interaction: Chains and tiers
  • 3. Metonymic indeterminacy
  • 3.1 Sylleptic and complementary metonymies
  • 3.2 Metonymy and metalepsis.
  • 3.3 Multiple metonymic targets
  • 4. Recapitulation and concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • On verbal and situational irony: Towards a unified approach
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Verbal irony
  • 2.1 Pretense versus echo
  • 2.2 Verbal irony as a clash between scenarios
  • 2.3 Pretended agreement
  • 2.4 Chained reasoning schemas in verbal irony
  • 3. Situational irony
  • 3.1 Previous accounts of situational irony
  • 3.2 The epistemic scenario
  • 3.3 Chained reasoning schemas in situational irony
  • 4. The unified approach: A common framework for verbal and situational irony
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • On figurative ambiguity, marking, and low-salience meanings
  • 1. Introduction
  • disambiguation vs. ambiguation
  • 2. The phenomenon of marking multiple meanings
  • 2.1 Why ambiguation?: Why marking?
  • 2.2 Is ambiguation the same as punning?
  • 2.3 Does ambiguation always involve a figurative meaning and a literal meaning?
  • 3. Ambiguity processing models and their predictions for marked ambiguity
  • 3.1 Which meanings benefit from marking?
  • 3.2 The Low-Salience Marking Hypothesis
  • 4. Experiments
  • 4.1 Experiment 1
  • an offline study
  • 4.2 Experiment 2
  • an online study
  • 5. General discussion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Funding
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Part III. Usage and variation
  • Metaphor, metonymy and polysemy: A historical perspective
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The semantic history of dull
  • 3. The emergence of the sense 'not bright'
  • 4. Motivation for the meaning 'not sharp'
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix. Abridged OED2 entry for dull
  • Dull, adj
  • Psycholinguistic approaches to figuration
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Meaning activation and cross-modal priming
  • 2.1 Investigating figurative processing using cross-modal priming.
  • 2.2 Interacting variables in idiom processing
  • 2.3 Cross-modal priming and metaphor processing
  • 2.4 Other approaches to priming in the study of figurative language
  • 3. Resolving meaning in context: The use of eye-tracking
  • 3.1 Eye-tracking and the 'idiom superiority effect'
  • 3.2 Figurative vs. literal meaning in idiom processing
  • 3.3 Eye-tracking and the processing of metaphor and metonymy
  • 3.4 Individual differences in the processing of figurative language
  • 3.5 The importance of familiarity and conventionalization in figurative processing
  • 3.6 Eye-tracking in other contexts
  • 4. Conclusions
  • 4.1 Implications for theories of figurative processing
  • References
  • Appendix. List of experimental studies
  • The fabric of metaphor in discourse: Interweaving cognition and discourse in figurative language
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Concepts and units of analysis of metaphor in use
  • 3. Online and off-line levels of metaphor in use
  • 4. Exploring local mappings in a metaphor niche
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
  • Sources of verbal humor in the lexicon: A usage-based perspective on incongruity
  • 1. Introductory remarks on investigating verbal humor in the lexicon
  • 2. Nominal compounds and the humorousness of metaphor
  • 3. Verbal humor in the French and Italian lexicon
  • 4. Reinterpreting incongruity from a usage-based perspective: A semiotic typology
  • I. Conceptual aspects as a source of verbal humor
  • II. The signified as a source of verbal humor
  • III. The signifier as a source of verbal humor
  • IV. The phonic or graphic realization of the sequence of signs as a source of verbal humor
  • V. Verbal humor related to the referent (and the target concept)
  • VI. Pragmatic factors of verbal humor that are related to speaker-hearer interaction
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References.
  • Measuring the impact of (non)figurativity in the cultural conceptualization of emotions in the two main national varieties of Portuguese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Cultural variability of anger and pride and cultural differences between Portugal and Brazil
  • 3. Corpus data and methodology
  • 3.1 Data
  • 3.2 Multifactorial usage-feature and profile analysis
  • 3.3 Conceptual metaphors and the profile-based approach
  • 3.4 Multivariate quantitative methods
  • 4. Results
  • 4.1 Multiple correspondence analysis: Feature clusters of anger and pride
  • 4.2 Logistic regression analysis: anger and pride features predicting EP and BP varieties
  • 4.3 Multiple correspondence analysis: Profiles of anger and pride metaphors
  • 4.4 Logistic regression analysis: anger and pride metaphors predicting EP and BP varieties
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Funding
  • References
  • Index.

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