Tony Veale
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tony Veale is involved.
Book series
ISSN 2210-4836
Journal
English Text Construction
Edited by Lieselotte Brems, Lobke Ghesquière and Brecht de Groote
ISSN 1874-8767 | E‑ISSN 1874‑8775
2020 Metaphor as sign and as symbol Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John and Andrew Gargett (eds.), pp. 511–532 | Chapter
Metaphors come as second nature to users of language because they are so often the norm. We trade in them deftly, to the point of seeming indifference to, and sometimes even ignorance of, their figurative natures. But the opposite is also true, since words that are offered with the plainest of… read more
2019 Chapter 3. Metaphor in the age of mechanical production: (Or: Turning potential metaphors into deliberate metaphors) Metaphor and Metonymy in the Digital Age: Theory and methods for building repositories of figurative language, Bolognesi, Marianna, Mario Brdar and Kristina Š. Despot (eds.), pp. 75–98 | Chapter
A large repository of familiar linguistic metaphors is also an implicit repository of the knowledge any agent needs to generate and understand novel linguistic metaphors. Moreover, a sufficiently large repository of resonant juxtapositions is a rich source of the potential metaphors that an active… read more
2013 Strategies and tactics for ironic subversion Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 321–340 | Article
Ironic descriptions subvert the norms of descriptive language. Norms have highly salient exemplars – shared stereotypes – on which speakers can draw to create a vivid description, but ironic speakers instead construct their own counter-examples, often identifying exceptional cases where the… read more
2012 Chapter 15. A computational exploration of creative similes Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 329–344 | Chapter
The syntactic form of explicit as-similes provides a ready-made infrastructure for linguistic creativity that writers and speakers can exploit with remarkable freedom. This chapter adopts a computational approach to similes, asking: what kinds of knowledge must a computational agent possess so as… read more
2007 Dynamic creation of analogically-motivated terms and categories in lexical ontologies Lexical Creativity, Texts and Contexts, Munat, Judith (ed.), pp. 189–212 | Article
1999 Computability as a limiting cognitive constraint: Complexity concerns in metaphor comprehension about which cognitive linguists should be aware Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox (eds.), pp. 129–154 | Article