27.388, Books: Using Figurative Language: Colston

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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:59:36
From: James Mckellar [jmckellar at cambridge.org]
Subject: Using Figurative Language: Colston

 


Title: Using Figurative Language 
Publication Year: 2015 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/academic/subjects/psychology/cognition/using-figurative-language 


Author: Herbet L Colston

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107105652 Pages: 284 Price: U.K. £ 69.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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