Titre :	Figurative Language
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Barbara Dancygier, Auteur
Editeur :	United Kingdom : Archives Contemporaines
Année de publication :	2014
Importance :	242Pages
Format :	24cm.x17cm.
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	9780521148731
Langues :	Français (fre) Langues originales : Français (fre)
Index. décimale :	808 rhétorique et recueils : rhétorique : art et techniques de l'écriture et de l'expression orale. Classer ici le plagiat
Résumé :	This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint, and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. • Provides definitions of major concepts • Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity • Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres • Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language • Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data

Figurative Language [texte imprimé] / Barbara Dancygier, Auteur . - United Kingdom : Archives Contemporaines, 2014 . - 242Pages ; 24cm.x17cm.
ISSN : 9780521148731
Langues : Français (fre) Langues originales : Français (fre)

Index. décimale :

808 rhétorique et recueils : rhétorique : art et techniques de l'écriture et de l'expression orale. Classer ici le plagiat

Résumé :

This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint, and it fits them into a consistent framework which is applied to cross-linguistic data and also to figurative structures in gesture and the visual arts. Comprehensive and practical, the book includes analyses of figurative uses of both word meanings and linguistic constructions. • Provides definitions of major concepts • Offers in-depth analyses of examples, exploring multiple levels of complexity • Surveys figurative structures in different discourse genres • Helps students to connect figurative usage with the conceptual underpinnings of language • Goes beyond English to explore cross-linguistic and cross-modal data