Section I.Embodiments entwined

13

Chapter 1.The big figurative picture: What’s in a domain? 14

Herbert L. Colston

Chapter 2.Re-thinking embodiment in figuration: Lived experience or cognitive mechanism? 40

Dorothea Horst

Section II.Figurativity and multimodality

65

Chapter 3.Sources of incongruity in advertising 66

Mª Sandra Peña-Cervel

Chapter 4.Multimodal meaning-making in opera: Metaphors at the intersection of text, music, and images in Wagner’s Lohengrin 98

Stamatia Gerothanasi

Nina Julich-Warpakowski

Paula Pérez-Sobrino

125

Chapter 5.Oxymoron and its interplay with metaphor and irony 126

John Barnden

Chapter 6.Metonymy typologies revisited: Adding the interaction and integration of metonymies into the picture 160

Mario Brdar

Rita Brdar-Szabó

Chapter 7.How many metaphors can metaphor afford? An embodied view of metaphorical meaning 194

Anna Piata

Aristea-Maria Metaxa

Constructions and comprehensions 221

Chapter 8.What makes a verbal irony? On the development of a psycholinguistic irony comprehension task 222

Sergio Duarte

Maity Siqueira

Chapter 9.Understanding ironic echoing 248

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Inés Lozano Palacio

Chapter 10.Irony, intersubjectivity and construal: The case of a Greek Twitter construction about the other 271

Sophia Kefalidou

Chapter 11.Verbal irony: Duality subjected to evaluation 305

Angeliki Athanasiadou

Index