In:Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account
María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
[Figurative Thought and Language 14] 2022
► pp. 7–50
Chapter 2Figurative thought and language
An overview of approaches
Published online: 13 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.c2
Article outline
- 2.1Introduction: The literal-figurative distinction
- 2.2The rhetoric tradition
- 2.3The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
- 2.4The Romantic perspective
- 2.5The psycholinguistic perspective
- 2.6Semantic approaches
- 2.6.1The referentialist view
- 2.6.2The descriptivist view
- 2.6.3Kittays’ relational theory of metaphor and Way’s DTH theory of metaphor
- 2.7Pragmatic approaches
- 2.7.1The standard pragmatic view
- 2.7.1.1Searle and Speech Act Theory
- 2.7.1.2Grice and the Cooperative Principle
- 2.7.2Relevance Theory and figurative language
- 2.7.1The standard pragmatic view
- 2.8The cognitive perspective: The metaphor revolution
- 2.8.1Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory
- 2.8.2Grady’s theory of primary metaphor
- 2.8.3Johnson’s theory of conflation
- 2.8.4Blending Theory
- 2.8.5The neural theory of language
- 2.8.6Figurative language, universality, and cultural variation
- 2.9Classifications of figures of speech
- 2.10Overcoming the limitations: Foundations of an integrated cognitive-pragmatic approach
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