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In:What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity
Edited by Herbert L. Colston
[Figurative Thought and Language 19] 2025
► pp. 1–11

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Introduction

What makes a Figure?

 | University of Alberta
Published online: 28 October 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.19.intro
Article outline
  • The impetus
  • The outcome
  • The dedication
  • Section I.Embodiments entwined
  • Section II.Figuration and multimodality
  • Section III.Figurative contiguity
  • Section IV.Irony: Constructions, comprehension
  • The conclusion
  • References
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