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Using Figurative Language

Using Figurative Language

Colston, Herbert L.

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General ReferenceGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1107513480
ISBN13: 9781107513488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 16 2019
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, Why don't people just say what they mean? This research empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly, meaning effects wrought by figurative language usage. These pragmatic effects arise from many kinds of figurative language including metaphors (e.g., This computer is a dinosaur), verbal irony (e.g., Nice place you got here), idioms (e.g., Bite the bullet), proverbs (e.g., Don't put all your eggs in one basket) and others. Reviewed studies explore mechanisms - linguistic, psychological social and others, underlying pragmatic effects, some traced to basic processes embedded in human sensory, perceptual, embodied, cognitive, social and schematic functioning. The book should interest readers, researchers and scholars in fields beyond psychology, linguistics and philosophy that share interests in figurative language - including language studies, communication, literary criticism, neuroscience, semiotics, rhetoric and anthropology.

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