Part I.Introducing deliberate metaphor

Chapter 1.The case for deliberate metaphor

1.1Two paradigms

1.2Life as a rocky road

1.3Slowing metaphor down

Chapter 2.Exploring deliberate metaphor

2.1Two uses

2.2What counts as a deliberate metaphor?

2.3What is the alien perspective?

2.4What is the purpose of a deliberate metaphor?

2.5Can discourse events affect metaphor deliberateness?

2.6Exploring deliberate metaphor

Chapter 3.Describing and explaining deliberate metaphor

3.1Two approaches

3.2Identifying deliberate metaphor

3.3Describing deliberate metaphor use: Corpus research

3.4Explaining deliberate metaphor use: Psychological experiments

3.5Describing and explaining deliberate and non-deliberate metaphor use

Part II.Introducing DMT

Chapter 4.Motivating DMT: The paradox of metaphor

4.1Two processes

4.2Metaphor processing

4.3The paradox of metaphor and the rise of DMT

4.4Fundamental issues in the debate about DMT

4.5Motivating DMT: Introducing the ALPS framework

Chapter 5.Grounding DMT: Metaphor in language use and discourse

5.1Two levels

5.2Metaphor use in language comprehension: Representing utterances

5.3Metaphor use in discourse comprehension: Representing genre events

5.4Grounding DMT: Introducing the CI model for metaphor comprehension

Chapter 6.Framing DMT: Metaphorical thinking, fast and slow

6.1Two speeds

6.2From ‘metaphor and thought’ to metaphorical thinking, fast and slow

6.3Framing DMT: Slowing metaphor down

6.4Constructing DMT: Conceptualization and operationalization

Part III.Conceptualizing DMT

Chapter 7.Communication and the context model

7.1Intending and two perspectives: Target-domain or source-domain

7.2Cancer as war

7.3Metaphor, context model, and perspectives

Chapter 8.Reference and the situation model

8.1Worldbuilding and one or two (sets of) referents

8.2Sex as food and food as sex

8.3Metaphor, situation model, and referents

Chapter 9.Thought and the text base

9.1Conceptualizing and one or two (sets of) concepts

9.2Consciousness as a stone in a puddle

9.3Metaphor, text base, and concepts

Chapter 10.Language and the surface text

10.1Expressing and one or two (sets of) senses

10.2The brain as a house filled with lights

10.3Metaphor, surface text, and senses

Part IV.Operationalizing DMT

Chapter 11.Metaphor in utterance comprehension in discourse

11.1Surface text

11.2Text base

11.3Situation model

11.4Context model

11.5Mental models for metaphor comprehension

Chapter 12.Semantic fields and conceptual domains

12.1Conventional metaphor

12.2Novel metaphor

12.3Non-deliberate metaphor turning deliberate

12.4Direct metaphor

12.5Variation in metaphor

Chapter 13.Online cross-domain mappings

13.1Potential cross-domain mappings and their use in comprehension

13.2From surface text to text base

13.3From text base to situation model

13.4From situation model to context model

13.5Variation in metaphor processing

Part V.Prospects

Chapter 14.Metaphorical thinking, fast and slow

14.1Looking back: Metaphor in language use

14.2Variation in metaphor and metaphor processing

14.3DMT’s model for metaphor comprehension

14.4Looking forward: Metaphor in discourse

References

Index

Table of contents

Part I.Introducing deliberate metaphor

Part II.Introducing DMT

Part III.Conceptualizing DMT

Part IV.Operationalizing DMT

Part V.Prospects