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Chapter 2 Figurative thought and language: An overview of approaches |
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2.1 Introduction: The literal-figurative distinction |
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2.2 The rhetoric tradition |
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2.3 The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries |
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2.4 The Romantic perspective |
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2.5 The psycholinguistic perspective |
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2.6.1 The referentialist view |
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2.6.2 The descriptivist view |
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2.6.3 Kittays' relational theory of metaphor and Way's DTH theory of metaphor |
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2.7.1 The standard pragmatic view |
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2.7.1.1 Searle and Speech Act Theory |
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2.7.1.2 Grice and the Cooperative Principle |
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2.7.2 Relevance Theory and figurative language |
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2.8 The cognitive perspective: The metaphor revolution |
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2.8.1 Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphor Theory |
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2.8.2 Grady's theory of primary metaphor |
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2.8.3 Johnson's theory of conflation |
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2.8.5 The neural theory of language |
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2.8.6 Figurative language, universality, and cultural variation |
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2.9 Classifications of figures of speech |
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2.10 Overcoming the limitations: Foundations of an integrated cognitive-pragmatic approach |
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Chapter 3 Foundations of cognitive modeling |
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3.1.1 A taxonomy of cognitive models |
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3.1.1.1 Primary, low, and high levels |
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3.1.1.2 Non-situational and situational cognitive models: Descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios |
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3.1.1.3 Non-scalar and scalar cognitive models |
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3.1.2 Basic and complex models |
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3.1.2.2 Image-schematic complexes |
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3.2.1 Cognitive operations affecting linguistic behavior |
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3.2.1.1 Construal operations |
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3.2.1.2 Inferential operations |
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3.2.1.2.1 Inferential formal operations |
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3.2.1.2.2 Inferential content operations |
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Chapter 4 Metaphor and metonymy revisited |
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4.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and subsequent developments |
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4.2 Tracing the boundary line between metaphor and metonymy |
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4.3 Metaphor and metonymy in terms of cognitive operations |
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4.4 A typology of metaphor and metonymy |
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4.4.1 The type of cognitive operation licensing the mapping |
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4.4.2 The formal complexity of the mapping system |
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4.4.3 The conceptual complexity of the mapping system |
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4.4.4 The ontological status of the domains involved in the mapping |
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4.4.5 The levels of genericity of the domains involved in the mapping |
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4.5 Metaphoric and metonymic complexes |
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4.5.1 Correlation with resemblance |
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4.5.2 Expansion with reduction |
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4.5.3 Expansion or reduction with resemblance |
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4.5.4 Correlation with correlation |
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4.6 Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar |
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4.6.1 High-level metaphor and metonymy |
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4.6.2 Metonymy and anaphora |
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4.6.3 On the metonymic grounding of Active motion constructions |
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4.6.4 Metaphor, metonymy, and image-schema transformations |
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4.7 Metaphor-like figures |
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4.7.2 Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism |
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4.7.3 Analogy, paragon, kenning, and allegory |
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4.8 Metonymy-like figures |
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4.9 Constraining metaphor and metonymy |
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5.1 Defining and understanding hyperbole: An outline of descriptive and pragmatic approaches |
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5.1.1 Hyperbole in rhetoric |
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5.1.2 Hyperbole in psycholinguistics |
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5.1.3 Hyperbole in pragmatics |
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5.1.4 The need for a cognitive account of hyperbole |
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5.2 The cognitive perspective |
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5.2.1 Classifying hyperbole: Coding and inferencing |
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5.2.2 Hyperbole as a cross-domain mapping |
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5.2.3 Hyperbolic constructions |
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5.3 Hyperbole-related figurativeness |
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5.3.1 An account of figures related to hyperbole: Definition and scope |
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5.3.1.1 Overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis |
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5.3.1.2 Understatement, meiosis, and litotes |
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5.3.2 Hyperbole-related figurativeness and cognitive modeling |
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5.3.2.1 Cognitive modeling in overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis |
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5.3.2.2 Cognitive modeling in understatement, meiosis, and litotes |
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220 | (2) |
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5.4 Constraining hyperbole and related figures |
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6.1 Denning verbal irony: From rhetoric to pragmatics |
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6.1.1 Traditional approaches |
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6.1.2 Communicative approaches |
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6.2 Irony and cognitive modeling |
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6.3 Towards a synthetic approach to irony |
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6.3.2 Historical uses of irony |
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6.4 Irony-based figures of speech |
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6.5 Exploiting cross-domain contrast further: Paradox and oxymoron |
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6.6 Constraining irony, paradox, and oxymoron |
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References |
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Index |
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