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In:Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language
Edited by Annalisa Baicchi
[Figurative Thought and Language 9] 2020
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 12 August 2020

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Table of contents

Foreword and acknowledgmentsVII

Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introduction1

Annalisa Baicchi

Part I.Figurativeness and theory: Addition, identification and structure

Metaphor thoughtfully13

John Barnden

Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat45

Mario Brdar

Rita Brdar-Szabo

Benedikt Perak

A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages71

Zoltán Kövecses

Part II.Figurativeness and constructions

Intensification via figurative language91

Angeliki Athanasiadou

Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typology107

Cristiano Broccias

Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese129

Sabine De Knop

Metonymy meets coercion: The case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and predicative constructions in Spanish151

Francisco Gonzálvez-Garcías

Part III.Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality

Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole187

Herbert Colston

Ann Carreno

Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy209

Marcin Kuczok

Part IV.Typology of figures and cognitive models

Figures of speech revisited: Introducing syntonymy and syntaphor225

Bogusław Bierwiaczonek

Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation and Sedimentation Model253

Simon Devylder

Jordan Zlatev

The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making283

Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez

Alicia Galera Masegosa

Index309