Francesca Ervas

List of John Benjamins publications in which Francesca Ervas is involved.

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Metaphor and Communication

Edited by Elisabetta Gola and Francesca Ervas

This collection of papers presents different views on metaphor in communication. The overall aim is to show that the communicative dimension of metaphor cannot be reduced to its conceptual and/or linguistic dimension. The volume addresses two main questions: does the communicative dimension of… read more

[Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication, 5] 2016. vi, 289 pp.

Articles

Ervas, Francesca 2020  How nice does it sound? An argumentative approach to the affective aspects of irony production Producing Figurative Expression: Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives, Barnden, John and Andrew Gargett (eds.), pp. 175–210 | Chapter

The chapter presents irony as a form of the reductio ad absurdum argument having a specific emotional charge, which cannot be found either in literal arguments or in other arguments containing figurative language. The claim of the chapter is that irony production depends on the ironist’s ability… read more

Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas 2016 Metaphors we live twice: A communicative approach beyond the conceptual view? Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Article

This chapter aims to introduce metaphors from two different perspectives: cognitive-linguistic and communicative. In presenting these views, we refer to Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of conceptual metaphors (1980) which influenced the evolving field of metaphor studies and its applications to related… read more