Figurative language is an area often neglected in the teaching of vocabulary. This article examines some definitions, and suggests examples of types of figurative language to which …
Abstract discuss some of the experimental evidence on how common ground provides the context for people's fluency with figurative speech/illustrate how our ability to conceptualize …
This paper explores the potential of cognitive linguistic notions such as conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonym for comparing the figurative phraseologies of English and Malay …
RW Gibbs Jr - Metaphor and symbol, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The 7 articles in this collection describe new views of figurative language understanding. These articles differ in the types of figurative language they examine and address different …
Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension …
F Boers - Cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, and …, 2004 - degruyter.com
One of the central tenets ofCogmtive Semantics (eg, Gibbs 1994, lohnson 1987, Lakoff 1987) is that the meaning of many conventional figurative expressions, including figurative …
Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought …
HR Pollio, MK Smith, MR Pollio - Language and cognitive …, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
The past decade has witnessed the development of a significant body of research and theory concerning the areas of figurative language use and comprehension. The purpose of …
This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It …