A hybrid theory of metaphor : relevance theory and cognitive linguistics /
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| Author / Creator: | Tendahl, Markus. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. |
| Description: | xi, 282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7892814 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Typographical Conventions
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Relevance-Theory Approach to Metaphor
- 2.1. Grice's theory of meaning and communication
- 2.2. The cognitive turn in pragmatics: relevance theory
- 2.2.1. The epistemology of communication: mutual knowledge, mutual manifestness and mind-reading
- 2.2.2. Relevance, ostension and inference
- 2.2.3. The principles of relevance
- 2.2.4. Relevance-theoretic utterance interpretation
- 2.3. The explicit, the implicit and metaphors
- 2.3.1. Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction
- 2.3.2. The standard pragmatic approach to metaphor
- 2.3.3. The original relevance-theory approach to metaphor: descriptive and interpretive use
- 2.3.4. Recent developments in relevance theory: ad hoc concepts
- 2.3.5. The cognitive effort of processing metaphors
- 2.3.6. Interactions between cognitive effects and effort
- 2.3.7. Cognitive effects and metaphor processing: a study
- 2.4. Pragmatics and the implicit: a conclusion
- 3. Cognitive Linguistics and Metaphor
- 3.1. General assumptions of cognitive linguistics
- 3.2. Metaphor as conceptualization: conceptual metaphor theory
- 3.2.1. A modified invariance hypothesis
- 3.2.2. Why do we have the metaphoric concepts we have?
- 3.3. Metaphor and creative thinking: blending theory
- 4. Relevance Theory versus Cognitive Linguistics
- 4.1. Metaphor generality
- 4.2. Metaphor motivation
- 4.3. Representation of metaphorical meaning
- 4.4. The online processing of metaphorical utterances
- 4.5. Context-sensitivity and pragmatic effects
- 4.6. Metaphor and polysemy
- 4.7. Metaphor acquisition
- 4.8. Relations to a wider theory of language use
- 4.9. Theory of mind: modularity vs. embodiment
- 4.10. New challenges
- 5. The Hybrid Theory of Metaphor
- 5.1. The foundations
- 5.2. Lexical semantics in the hybrid theory
- 5.3. Lexical pragmatics in the hybrid theory
- 5.3.1. The example tree
- 5.3.2. The example at
- 5.4. Lexical metaphoricity
- 5.4.1. Examples
- 5.4.2. The construal of metaphorical ad hoc concepts
- 5.5. The online dynamics of metaphor interpretation
- 5.5.1. An unprecedented crusade
- 5.5.2. The figurativeness of utterances
- 5.5.3. Some predictions of the hybrid theory of metaphor
- 6. Conclusion and Future Challenges
- Notes
- References
- Index
