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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2007.
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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.