Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interpreting Figurative Meaning examines how people understand figurative language, including metaphor (e.g. 'My lawyer is a shark'), metonymy (e.g. 'They are reading Dickens') and proverbs (e.g. 'A rolling stone gathers no moss'). The book explores interdisciplinary debates on the process of comprehending and experiencing thoughts and emotions in everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9781107607279
• ISBN-10: 1107607272
• Artikelnr.: 35115290

Autorenporträt

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of several books including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding and Embodiment and Cognitive Science. He is also editor of the volume The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought and editor of the journal Metaphor and Symbol.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Identifying figurative language; 3. Models of figurative language comprehension; 4. Interpreting specific figures of speech; 5. Indeterminacy of figurative experience; 6. Factors shaping figurative language understanding; 7. Broadening the scope of figurative language studies.

Rezensionen

"...present a state-of-the-art view of what experiments have shown (or not shown) about how humans comprehend and process figurative language such as metaphor, metonymy, irony, sarcasm, proverbs, and idioms.... A valuable guide to the last 20-odd years of research on figurative language, this is a book for those who do not have the time to digest the primary literature in its entirety.... Recommended..."
--S.A. Dooley, University of Texas at Brownsville, Choice