Except for metaphor and metonymy, the study of most traditional figures of speech has
largely been neglected in Cognitive Linguistics. This article attempts to fill this gap by …

The present book is a broad-ranging account of figures of speech and their relations carried
out in full compliance with the main theoretical assumptions of Cognitive Linguistics …

This article discusses the complexity in ironic echoic mention from the perspective of
Cognitive Linguistics. It builds on the scenario-based approach to irony where ironic …

This paper offers a renewed construction grammar analysis of linguistic constructions in a
diachronic perspective. The present theory, termed Agentive Cognitive Construction …

The linguistic treatment of verbal irony has more often than not focused on novel, ad hoc
ironies. Research in the last decade, however, suggests that there is a considerable number …

Echoic mention was initially proposed as part of the relevance-theoretic approach to irony.
The aim of this article is to present an account of echoing as a cognitive operation that goes …

Esta tesis doctoral es el primer estudio integrado sobre ironía que recoge aspectos tratados
anteriormente en disciplinas como la teoría literaria, la retórica, la psicolingüística, la …

This article presents an empirical study on the implementation in the Spanish/L2 classroom
of a cognitive-based pedagogical material to teach irony building from previous research on …

Stemming from the use-mention distinction by the philosophy of language, Relevance
Theory introduces the notion of echo in the context of the echoic mention theory of irony (cf …

This paper reports a case study on a family of American English constructions that will be
called the family of approximate comparison constructions. This family has three members …