Creativity and Convention: The pragmatics of everyday figurative speech
Rosa E. Vega Moreno
This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 156] 2007. xii, 249 pp.