Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. On Interpreting Statements as Metaphor or Irony: Contextual Heuristics and Cognitive Consequences
- 2. The Use of Verbal Irony: Cues and Constraints
- 3. Meaning, Memory, and the Interpretation of Metaphors
- 4. Conceptualizing the Figurative Expressions of Psychotherapy Clients
- 5. An Intensive Analysis of Metaphor Themes in Psychotherapy
- 6. Metaphors in Child Custody Mediation: Utilizing Symbolic Language to Facilitate Agreements
- 7. The Mental Image of the Human Body: Implications of Physiological Mental Models of Our Understanding of Health and Illness
- 8. Metaphor, Politics, and Persuasion
- 9. Economic Metaphors: Ideology, Rhetoric, and Theory
- 10. Metonymy in Political Discourse
- 11. Politics without Metaphors Is like a Fish without Water
- 12. Individual Differences in Metaphoric Facilitation of Comprehension
- 13. Metaphor in Tactile Pictures for the Blind: Using Metonymy to Evoke Classification
- 14. Boundaries in Humor and Metaphor
- Author Index
- Subject Index