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almahu_9949348549802882
Format:
1 online resource (369 pages)
ISBN:
90-272-5759-0
Series Statement:
Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication ; v.9
Content:
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.
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Intro -- Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Art -- Prologue: On the dangers of metaphoring -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A young person's puzzlement -- 3. Trivialization -- 4. Manipulating metaphors -- 5. 'Locker room talk' and tautologies -- 6. Metaphors as mental instruments: Conclusion -- References -- Introduction -- A brief history -- Our goals and gains -- Organization by themes -- New windows into cognition and communication -- Account expansion, flexibility, or integration: Dynamism in action -- Influencers and drivers: Bigger pictures -- Conclusion -- Part I. New windows into cognition and communication -- Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry Project -- 1. Illness, image, metaphor: The Cancer Poetry Project -- 2. Cancer and metaphor -- 3. Metaphor in language, thought and communication about cancer -- 4. Metaphor in cancer poetry, therapy, and communication: The importance of genre -- References -- Narrative experiences of metaphor -- Metaphor processing in narrative contexts -- Dual processes in narrative -- Intuitive judgments in narrative experiences -- Reflective judgments in narrative experiences -- Readers' distinct narrative experiences -- Conclusions -- References -- Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practice -- Introduction -- Solo dance practice, from sound to action -- Internal dynamics of the dancer's translation process -- Duet dance practice: From sound to shared action in interactive dynamic systems -- Mechanisms in interactive sense-making -- Artistic research as a mode of inquiry -- References -- Feeling for speaking: How expressive body movements ground verbal descriptions of emotions -- Introduction -- Study design -- Data -- Methods -- Findings -- Micro-analytic case studies -- Surprise is straightening oneself up.
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Pride is a feeling of raised shoulders and an upright posture -- Fear is a lump of lead in the belly and a contracted body -- Happiness is a feeling that wants to get out and up in circles -- Is feeling for speaking a frequent phenomenon? -- Feeling first: A relevant phenomenon? -- Variable forms of embodied grounding -- Summary -- Conclusion: Feeling for speaking - experiencing grounds speaking -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communication -- An illumination -- The foundation of communication is multimodal -- To know a communicative system is to know a relational network of form-meaning pairs and how they blend -- Communication science and multimodal big data -- An infrastructure for research on multimodal communication -- Examples -- Conclusion -- References -- Fictive motion in the wild: Chapter for Dynamism in metaphor and beyond -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is fictive motion? -- 3. How is fictive motion understood? -- 4. Fictive motion in travel language -- 5. Fictive motion in hiking guidebooks -- 6. Closing remarks -- References -- Part II. Account expansion, flexibility, or integration: Dynamism in action -- Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor: A comparison -- Embodied metaphor vs. discourse metaphor -- An informal process model -- The extended view and other theories -- Extended CMT and the dynamic systems view -- Conclusion -- References -- Communication, comprehension, and interpretation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevance, cognition and communication -- 3. Comprehension and interpretation -- 4. Indeterminacy in communication -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Between embodiment and usage: Conventionalized figurative expressions and the notion of 'idiom set' -- 1. Introduction: Embodiment, usage, metaphor.
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2. Multimodality in discourse and constructicon -- 3. The set of expressions licensed by the 'immersion schema' -- 4. Case study: The idiom set licensed by [up to X in Y] -- 4.1 Corpus data and methods applied -- 4.2 Data retrieval and coding -- 4.3 Results of the quantitative analyses of the verbal instantiations -- 4.4 Interim discussion: Corpus data and embodiment -- 4.5 Co-speech gestures: Results and discussion -- 5. Individual variation in the use of the immersion schema -- 6. Metaphoricity and creativity in the use of immersion idioms -- 7. Metaphor between embodiment and usage: Conclusions -- References -- Metaphors and meaning-making in young people's talk about climate change -- Introduction -- Metaphor in science and education -- Metaphor and the discourse of climate change -- Analysing metaphor in discourse -- Data and method -- Analysis -- Greenhouses and high/constant temperatures -- Human beings as plants -- Greenhouses, blankets and layers -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse -- 1. Types of experience and experiential viewpoint -- 2. Simile and metaphor: Constructional features and discourse -- 3. Discourse dynamicity and figurative form: Simile and other tropes -- 4. Non-figurative narrative elaboration -- 5. Where does this lead? -- References -- Sources of examples -- Metaphor and elaboration in context -- Introduction -- Metaphoric mappings in language & -- thought -- Metaphor framing in decision-making -- Are metaphors just lexical primes? -- Interim summary -- What schematic elaboration leaves out -- Conclusions -- References -- Part III. Influencers and drivers: Bigger pictures -- Figurativity: Cognitive, because it's social -- Social motivations: Our social addiction -- Social connection -- Social status -- Socially derived sense-of-self.
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Language (figurative and other): Our social fix -- Figurative language and pragmatic effects -- Figurative language and social processes -- Language's social foundation -- Figurative language revisited: Affording sociality through cognitive ability consideration -- The forms of figurativity -- Figurative (and other) language, cognition and social functioning -- Conclusion -- References -- Conceptual blending and memes -- 1. Analogical reasoning -- 2. Conceptual blending theory -- 3. Conceptual blending and progressive alignment -- 4. Dueling cartoons -- 5. Memes -- 6. Memes are multimodal constructions -- 7. Something old, something new -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- How to talk about motion without verbs -- Noun dominance in early language -- The salience of motion in early cognition -- Early words for motion other than verbs -- Nouns -- Prepositions and function words -- Early meanings of up and down -- Early meanings of hi and bye -- Other early words for motion -- Conclusions -- References -- Defaultness vs. constructionism: The case of default constructional sarcasm and default non-constructional literalness -- 1. Overview -- 2. Testing the defaultness hypothesis -- 2.1 Defining defaultness -- 2.2 Predictions -- 3. The role of defaultness in affecting processing, pleasure, and pragmatic cueing -- 4. Constructions -- 5. Conclusions: Non/default vs. non/constructional interpretations -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Appendix A -- Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An ultra-short & -- informal version of key dimensions of RT -- 3. The co-construction of identity and trust on web platforms -- 4. The TripAdvisor platform as service, communication template, and interface -- TripAdvisor as service for creating an online identity -- Format of the communication template.
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Interface from the receiver's perspective -- 5. An RT characterization of communication on TripAdvisor -- 6. From platform to agent: TripAdvisor as communicator -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Language happens -- Introduction -- A solitary language processor is not what processes language -- A solitary brain is not what processes language -- A solitary person is not what processes language -- A community of people is what processes language -- References.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Colston, Herbert L. Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2022 ISBN 9789027211415
Language:
English
Keywords:
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