Traditional theories of sarcasm treat it as a case of a speaker's meaning the opposite of what
she says. Recently,'expressivists' have argued that sarcasm is not a type of speaker …

Category mistakes are sentences such as' Green ideas sleep furiously','Saturday is in bed',
and'The theory of relativity is eating breakfast'. Such sentences strike most speakers as …

Psychological terms are widely used to describe the biological world: plants, insects,
bacteria colonies, even single cells are described as making decisions, anticipating …

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe
tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them. In …

International and national armed conflicts are usually preceded by a media campaign in
which public figures foment ethnic, national, racial or religious hatred, inciting listeners to …

Although adults use metaphors to guide their thinking and reasoning, less is known about
whether metaphors might facilitate cognition earlier in development. Previous research …

The established approaches to language typology share the notion that the features used as
a starting point for any classification are linguistic rather than discursive. This study aims to …

Metaphors abound in both the arts and in science. Due to the traditional division between
these enterprises as one concerned with aesthetic values and the other with epistemic …

Though metaphoric language comprehension has previously been investigated with event-
related potentials, little attention has been devoted to extending this research from the …

Nineteenth-century German classical philology underpins many structures of the modern
humanities. In this book, Constanze Güthenke shows how a language of love and a longing …