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020			_a9781316226414 (ebook)
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040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aP37.5.F53 _bC65 2015
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100	1		_aColston, Herbert L., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aUsing figurative language / _cHerbert Colston.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015).
520			_aUsing Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question,'Why don't people just say what they mean?' This research empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly, meaning effects wrought by figurative language usage. These'pragmatic effects' arise from many kinds of figurative language including metaphors (e.g.'This computer is a dinosaur'), verbal irony (e.g.'Nice place you got here'), idioms (e.g.'Bite the bullet'), proverbs (e.g.'Don't put all your eggs in one basket') and others. Reviewed studies explore mechanisms - linguistic, psychological, social and others - underlying pragmatic effects, some traced to basic processes embedded in human sensory, perceptual, embodied, cognitive, social and schematic functioning. The book should interest readers, researchers and scholars in fields beyond psychology, linguistics and philosophy that share interests in figurative language - including language studies, communication, literary criticism, neuroscience, semiotics, rhetoric and anthropology.
650		0	_aFigures of speech.
650		0	_aPsycholinguistics.
650		0	_aSociolinguistics.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107105652
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316226414
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