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
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Published online: 13 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.toc
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Table of contents
AcknowledgementsIX
Chapter 1.Introduction1
Chapter 2.Figurative thought and language: An overview of approaches7
2.1Introduction: The literal-figurative distinction7
2.2The rhetoric tradition9
2.3The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries15
2.4The Romantic perspective16
2.5The psycholinguistic perspective16
2.6Semantic approaches22
2.6.1The referentialist view22
2.6.2The descriptivist view25
2.6.3Kittays’ relational theory of metaphor and Way’s DTH theory of metaphor26
2.7Pragmatic approaches27
2.7.1The standard pragmatic view27
2.7.1.1Searle and Speech Act Theory27
2.7.1.2Grice and the Cooperative Principle29
2.7.2Relevance Theory and figurative language31
2.8The cognitive perspective: The metaphor revolution34
2.8.1Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory35
2.8.2Grady’s theory of primary metaphor37
2.8.3Johnson’s theory of conflation38
2.8.4Blending Theory38
2.8.5The neural theory of language40
2.8.6Figurative language, universality, and cultural variation41
2.9Classifications of figures of speech43
2.10Overcoming the limitations: Foundations of an integrated cognitive-pragmatic approach48
Chapter 3.Foundations of cognitive modeling51
3.1Cognitive models51
3.1.1A taxonomy of cognitive models56
3.1.1.1Primary, low, and high levels62
3.1.1.2Non-situational and situational cognitive models: Descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios63
3.1.1.3Non-scalar and scalar cognitive models74
3.1.2Basic and complex models76
3.1.2.1Frame complexes81
3.1.2.2Image-schematic complexes85
3.2Cognitive operations87
3.2.1Cognitive operations affecting linguistic behavior88
3.2.1.1Construal operations88
3.2.1.2Inferential operations91
3.2.1.2.1Inferential formal operations96
3.2.1.2.2Inferential content operations96
Chapter 4.Metaphor and metonymy revisited105
4.1Conceptual Metaphor Theory and subsequent developments105
4.2Tracing the boundary line between metaphor and metonymy106
4.3Metaphor and metonymy in terms of cognitive operations114
4.4A typology of metaphor and metonymy120
4.4.1The type of cognitive operation licensing the mapping120
4.4.2The formal complexity of the mapping system121
4.4.3The conceptual complexity of the mapping system123
4.4.4The ontological status of the domains involved in the mapping124
4.4.5The levels of genericity of the domains involved in the mapping128
4.5Metaphoric and metonymic complexes132
4.5.1Correlation with resemblance133
4.5.2Expansion with reduction134
4.5.3Expansion or reduction with resemblance135
4.5.4Correlation with correlation136
4.6Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar138
4.6.1High-level metaphor and metonymy138
4.6.2Metonymy and anaphora142
4.6.3On the metonymic grounding of fictive motion constructions148
4.6.4Metaphor, metonymy, and image-schema transformations150
4.7Metaphor-like figures151
4.7.1Simile152
4.7.2Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism154
4.7.3Analogy, paragon, kenning, and allegory158
4.7.4Synesthesia163
4.8Metonymy-like figures165
4.8.1Hypallage166
4.8.2Antonomasia167
4.8.3Anthimeria168
4.8.4Proverbs169
4.8.5Synecdoche171
4.8.6Merism173
4.9Constraining metaphor and metonymy174
Chapter 5.Hyperbole179
5.1Defining and understanding hyperbole: An outline of descriptive and pragmatic approaches179
5.1.1Hyperbole in rhetoric180
5.1.2Hyperbole in psycholinguistics181
5.1.3Hyperbole in pragmatics183
5.1.4The need for a cognitive account of hyperbole184
5.2The cognitive perspective185
5.2.1Classifying hyperbole: Coding and inferencing188
5.2.2Hyperbole as a cross-domain mapping197
5.2.3Hyperbolic constructions200
5.3Hyperbole-related figurativeness211
5.3.1An account of figures related to hyperbole: Definition and scope211
5.3.1.1Overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis212
5.3.1.2Understatement, meiosis, and litotes214
5.3.2Hyperbole-related figurativeness and cognitive modeling217
5.3.2.1Cognitive modeling in overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis217
5.3.2.2Cognitive modeling in understatement, meiosis, and litotes220
5.4Constraining hyperbole and related figures222
Chapter 6.Irony227
6.1Defining verbal irony: From rhetoric to pragmatics227
6.1.1Traditional approaches228
6.1.2Communicative approaches229
6.2Irony and cognitive modeling234
6.3Towards a synthetic approach to irony236
6.3.1Ironic complexity238
6.3.2Historical uses of irony241
6.4Irony-based figures of speech248
6.4.1Antiphrasis248
6.4.2Sarcasm249
6.4.3Banter250
6.4.4Satire251
6.4.5Prolepsis252
6.5Exploiting cross-domain contrast further: Paradox and oxymoron253
6.6Constraining irony, paradox, and oxymoron255
Chapter 7.Conclusion259
References265
Index289
