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From: Elke M. Milbli [milbli at narr.de]
Subject: The Conventionality of Figurative Language: Handl
 

	
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Title: The Conventionality of Figurative Language 
Subtitle: A usage-based study 
Series Title: Language in Performance, Band 46  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG
	   http://www.narr.de/
	

Book URL: http://www.narr-shop.de/index.php/the-conventionality-of-figurative-language.html 


Author: Sandra Handl

Paperback: ISBN:  9783823366249 Pages: 371 Price: Europe EURO 68


Abstract:

The book is the first in-depth study that aims to identify the conceptual rules 
and regularities underlying the (un)conventionality of figurative ways of speaking 
and reasoning. Using a combination of corpus-linguistic and cognitive-linguistic 
methods it investigates a large number of metonymies as well as metaphors, 
focusing on the former, less studied phenomenon. It provides an overview of 
their relative frequencies of occurrence in natural discourse and offers a 
systematic account of why some figurative expressions and/or conceptual 
mappings are preferred while others are less 'successful' in the speech 
community and thus shape our language and thought to a lesser degree. Based 
on a critical examination of existing theories and material from the British 
National Corpus, the book points out similarities and differences between 
metonymy and metaphor as well as between different types of the two 
phenomena with regard to their conventionality and moreover demonstrates the 
value of usage-based studies for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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