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Creativity and convention : the pragmatics of everyday figurative speech /

This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vega Moreno, Rosa E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2007.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 156.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human Creative Cognition and Selective Processing
  • The selective mind
  • Selective processing
  • Selectivity and ad hoc categories
  • Human memory and information processing
  • The encoding specificity principle
  • Memory processes and lexical flexibility
  • Concept construction and selective processing
  • Selective processing and the instability of graded structure
  • Constrains on concept instability
  • The depth of processing hypothesis Standard ideas and research
  • Beyond the depth of processing hypothesis
  • Conclusion
  • Relevance Theory: Communication and Cognition
  • Basic notions of relevance-theoretical pragmatics
  • The cognitive principle of relevance and the definition of relevance
  • The communicative principle and the comprehension procedure
  • Relevance theory and utterance interpretation
  • Accessibility of contextual assumptions
  • Lexical pragmatics
  • Conclusion
  • Metaphor, Interaction and Property Attribution
  • Traditional views on metaphor
  • A challenge to the literal priority claim
  • From property matching to property attribution
  • The class-inclusion theory: attribution, interaction and categorisation
  • Metaphor and ad hoc categories
  • Interaction in intrepretation
  • Problems with the class inclusion view
  • The emergence problem
  • Experimental work on emergence
  • Emergence and the class-inclusion theory
  • Emergence and blending theory
  • The transformation problem
  • Conclusion: towards a cognitively-adequate pragmatic approach
  • Relevance Theory and Metaphor Interpretation
  • Relevance, literalness and metaphor interpretation
  • Lexical pragmatics and loose use
  • Pragmatic adjustment and metaphor interpretation
  • Relevance theory and emergence
  • Relevance theory and the transformation problem
  • The bulldozer care
  • Creative and standardised loose uses
  • Inferential routes and pragmatic routines
  • Conclusion
  • Relevance Theory and Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor
  • Relevance theory and standard assumptions on metaphor research
  • Relevance theory and the class-inclusion theory
  • Experimental evidence
  • Conceptual metaphor theory
  • Conceptual metaphor theory and relevance theory
  • Conclusion
  • Analysability in Idiom Comprehension
  • Idioms: arbitrariness or compositionality?
  • Idioms as (partly) analysable phrases
  • Psycholinguistic research on the analysability of idioms
  • The role of analysability in idiom use and interpretation
  • Comments on experimental research
  • The nature of compositionality
  • Composition and decomposition
  • Analysability as transparency
  • Analysability and the processing and representation of idioms
  • The activation of idiomatic meaning
  • The configuration hypothesis
  • Activation and integration in processing
  • Conclusion
  • Idioms, Transparency and Pragmatic Inference
  • Idioms, metaphors and unfamiliar words
  • Making sense of idioms
  • Synchronic rationale
  • The contribution of word meaning
  • Conclusions on acquisition
  • Familiar idioms: representation and processing
  • Activation and interpretation
  • Pragmatic adjustment
  • Word meaning and idiom meaning
  • Interpreting idiom variants
  • Some conclusions on idiom processing and idiom variants
  • Conclusion
  • Creativitiy and Convention Beyond Figurative Speech
  • Creativity and convention in language
  • The psychology of routines
  • Controlled and automatic processing
  • Automaticity and expertise
  • Stages in expertise development and degrees of automaticity
  • Conclusion.