This volume brings together twelve usage-based studies conducted by leading researchers in language and cognition that explore core issues of figurativeness from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective.
The individual chapters reveal the central function of figurativeness in thought and its impact on language. Cognition relies on knowledge-structuring tools in the construction of meaning both mentally and linguistically. Collectively, the chapters delve into an array of topics that are crucial to future research in figurative meaning construction, especially on questions of identification and structure of figures, the figurative motivation of constructions, the impact of figurativeness on pragmatic and multimodal communication, and the correlation between figures and cognitive models.
Author(s): Annalisa Baicchi
Series: Figurative Thought and Language (FTL) 9
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2020
Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Foreword and acknowledgements
Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introduction
Part I. Figurativeness and theory: Addition, identification and structure
Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
References
Part I. Figurativeness and theory: Addition, identification and structure
Metaphor thoughtfully
1. Introduction
2. Some cautionary remarks
3. The potential usefulness or otherwise of metaphorical thoughts
4. The addition of metaphor in understanding
5. Discourse coherence through metaphorization
6. The Anti-Analogy-Extension Thesis
7. A type of holism
8. Further discussion
8.1 Handling metaphor with fictions
8.2 Holism and indirectness of representation again
8.3 The source of action
8.4 Back to bidirectionality
9. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Funding information
Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat
1. Introduction
2. Some approaches to the recognition, identification and extraction of figurative expressions
3. Turning our back to figurative wheat and attending to non-figurative weeds first: Why and how?
4. A brief note on metonymies
5. Concluding remarks and outlook
References
Funding information
A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages
1. Introduction
2. What are the appropriate conceptual structures in CMT?: Image schemas, domains, frames, or mental spaces?
3. Should conceptual metaphors be formulated at a schematic or specific level?
4. Which source domain items are mapped onto the target?
5. Do the mappings always go from source to target?
6. Are there any “isolated” metaphors?
7. Summary and discussion
8. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Part II. Figurativeness and constructions
Intensification via figurative language
1. Introduction
2. Interaction between figures in a construction
3. Constructions
4. Conceptual incongruity and intensification
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typology
1. Introduction
2. Multiple landscapes
3. To one’s death is not a result phrase, or is it?
3.1 Defining result(ative) phrases
3.2 The role of simultaneity
4. To one’s death as a metonymy
4.1 Access to the target
4.2 Metaphoric motion
4.3 Revealing the target
4.4 Verb variation
4.5 Other prepositional phrases
4.6 Interim conclusion
5. Ecological motivation
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese
1. Introduction
2. Former research on metaphorical adjective-noun phrases
3. A cognitive linguistics framework for the exploration of ANPs
4. A semantic and conceptual study of metaphorical ANPs
4.1 Adjective [literal] + noun [metaphorical]
4.2 Adjective [metaphorical] + noun [literal]
4.3 Adjective + noun [metaphorical]
4.4 Contextual information with pictures
5. The nature of domain adjectives
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Metonymy meets coercion: The case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and predicative constructions in Spanish
1. Introduction
2. An overview of Cognitive Construction Grammar
3. On the role of subjectivity, metonymy and parameterization
4. The coercion of nouns in attributive and predicative contexts in Spanish
5. The gradable construction with muy (‘very’) as an incipient case of constructionalization
6. A fine-grained analysis of the “X es muy N(=A)” construction in present-day Spanish
6.1 Celebrity names
6.2 Animals
6.3 Place names
6.4 Brand names
6.5 Company names
6.6 Internet
6.7 Characters (whether real or fictional)
6.8 Time
6.9 TV shows
6.10 Events
6.11 Music (style/lyrics)
6.12 Movies
6.13 Institutions
6.14 Specific institutions
6.15 Food
6.16 Sports
6.17 Clothes
6.18 Body parts
7. Closing remarks and outlook
Acknowledgements
References
Funding information
Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality
Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole
1. Introduction
2. The relevance of hyperbole: The case of accusation denials
3. Experiment 1
3.1 Participants
3.2 Materials
3.3 Design and procedure
3.4 Results and discussion
4. Experiment 2
4.1 Participants
4.2 Materials
4.3 Design and procedure
4.4 Results and discussion
5. Experiment 3
5.1 Participants
5.2 Materials
5.3 Design and procedure
5.4 Results
6. General discussion
6.1 Non-ironic denials
6.2 Ironic denials
6.3 Relevance and pragmatic effects
Acknowledgements
References
Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy
1. Introduction
2. Monomodal and multimodal conceptual metaphors
3. Linguistic studies on the Catholic liturgy
4. Gestures in the Catholic liturgy
5. The god is up metaphor in the Catholic liturgy
6. Personifications of god in the Catholic liturgy
7. Metaphors of sin in the Catholic liturgy
8. Metaphors of the christian life in the Catholic liturgy
9. Conclusions
References
Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models
Figures of speech revisited: Introducing syntonymy and syntaphor
1. Between synecdoche and metonymy – syntonymy
2. From analogy to syntaphor and metaphor
2.1 Syntaphor vs. schematization and specialization
3. Catachresis and conceptual niches vs. syntaphor and other figures of speech
4. Conclusions
References
Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation and Sedimentation Model
1. Introduction
2. What: Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self
2.1 Separation: Reversible and irreversible, actual and non-actual
2.2 Irreversible, non-actual separation of the self
3. How: Identifying C&B metaphors of the self in English Corpora
3.1 Data and methodology
3.2 Identifying irreversible non-actual separation (INAS) expressions
3.3 Different dimensions of the self
4. How: Probing the data with quantitative tools
4.1 Representativeness
4.2 Correlations between INAS expression types and self-dimension types
5. What, Why and How: MSM and cutting and breaking metaphors of the self
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix A
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The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making
1. Introduction
2. The Lexical Constructional Model (LCM)
3. Cognitive models
4. Cognitive operations: Metonymy and metonymic chains
4.1 Metonymy: Expansion and reduction mechanisms
4.2 Metonymic chains
5. Profile-base relations
6. Scenarios, metonymic activity and pragmatic inference
6.1 Descriptive scenarios
6.2 Attitudinal scenarios
6.3 Regulatory scenarios
7. Concluding remarks
References
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Index
