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Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
The last half century witnessed an upheaval in scientific investigation of human meaning-making and meaning-sharing. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, is offered as a snapshot of the status of this multidisciplinary endeavor—a peak under the umbrella of what Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Figurative Language Studies and related fields have morphed into. This volume honors Raymond W. Gibbs, who played no small role in this upheaval.
The themes and insights emerging from the chapters (i.e., among others, a need for account integration, a new appreciation of the dynamic nature of figurative [and all] meaning-making, a need for continued broadening of the communicative techniques in our studied topics, greater attention to emotion, a deepened appreciation of social motivations and psychological processes involved, etc.) may guide us in our continued grappling with meaning-making and meaning-sharing, via metaphor, through figurative language, and via other communicative phenomena associated with them.
[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 9] 2022. vii, 359 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 17 August 2022
Published online on 17 August 2022
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Frontis | pp. vii–7
- Prologue: On the dangers of metaphoringJacob L. Mey | pp. 1–10
- IntroductionHerbert Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard Steen | pp. 11–28
- Part I. New windows into cognition and communication
- Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry ProjectGerard Steen | pp. 31–44
- Narrative experiences of metaphorRichard J. Gerrig and Zared R. Shawver | pp. 45–62
- Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practiceAlan Cienki and Michael O’Connor | pp. 63–76
- Feeling for speaking: How expressive body movements ground verbal descriptions of emotionsCornelia Müller and Benjamin Marienfeld | pp. 77–94
- Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communicationMark Turner | pp. 95–108
- Fictive motion in the wildTeenie Matlock | pp. 109–128
- Part II. Account expansion, flexibility, or integration: Dynamism in action
- Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor: A comparisonZoltán Kövecses | pp. 131–142
- Communication, comprehension, and interpretationDeirdre Wilson | pp. 143–156
- Between embodiment and usage: Conventionalized figurative expressions and the notion of ‘idiom set’Beate Hampe | pp. 157–190
- Metaphors and meaning-making in young people’s talk about climate changeAlice Deignan and Elena Semino | pp. 191–204
- Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourseBarbara Dancygier | pp. 205–222
- Metaphor and elaboration in contextPaul H. Thibodeau and Stephen J. Flusberg | pp. 223–240
- Part III. Influencers and drivers: Bigger pictures
- Figurativity: Cognitive, because it’s socialHerbert L. Colston and Carina Rasse | pp. 243–264
- Conceptual blending and memesSeana Coulson | pp. 265–292
- How to talk about motion without verbsJean M. Mandler | pp. 293–304
- Defaultness vs. constructionism: The case of default constructional sarcasm and default non-constructional literalnessRachel Giora | pp. 305–324
- Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communicationCharles Forceville and Natalia Sánchez-Querubín | pp. 325–340
- Language happensMichael J. Spivey | pp. 341–356
- Index | pp. 357–359
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