TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baicchi,Annalisa
ED  - International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language
TI  - Figurative meaning construction in thought and language
T2  - Figurative thought and language,
SN  - 9789027261021
AV  - P165 .I58 2015
U1  - 410.1/835 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Amsterdam, Philadelphia
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
KW  - Cognitive grammar
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Figures of speech Congresses
KW  - Grammaire cognitive
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Métaphore
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
N1  - Papers presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language, November, 2015 at the University of Pavia, Italy; Includes bibliographical references and index; Figurativeness all the way down : by way of introduction / Annalisa Baicchi -- Metaphor thoughtfully / John Barnden -- Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat / Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó and Benedikt Perak -- A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages / Zoltán Kövecses -- Intensification via figurative language / Angeliki Athanasiadou -- Falling to one's death in multiple landscapes : from blending to typology / Cristiano Broccias -- Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese / Sabine De Knop -- Metonymy meets coercion : the case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and predicative constructions in Spanish / Francisco Gonzálvez-García -- Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole / Herbert L. Colston and Ann Carreno -- Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy / Marcin Kuczok -- Figures of speech revisited : introducing syntonymy and syntaphor / Bogusław Bierwiaczonek -- Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the motivation and sedimentation model / Simon Devylder and Jordan Zlatev -- The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making / Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2528645
ER  -