"This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative consequences, thus bringing together pragmatics and cognition. This type of study has allowed the authors to provide new definitions for all the figures while making their dependency relations fully explicit. For example, hypallage, antonomasia, anthimeria, and merism are studied as variants of metonymy, and analogy, paragon, and allegory as variants of metaphor. An important feature of the book is its special emphasis on the combinations of figures of speech into conceptually more complex configurations. Finally, the book accounts for the principles that regulate the felicity of figurative expressions. The result is a broad integrative framework for the analysis of figurative language grounded in the relationship between pragmatics and cognition"--.

• Figuring out Figuration
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Figurative thought and language: An overview of approaches
  • 2.1 Introduction: The literal-figurative distinction
  • 2.2 The rhetoric tradition
  • 2.3 The sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries
  • 2.4 The Romantic perspective
  • 2.5 The psycholinguistic perspective
  • 2.6 Semantic approaches
    • 2.6.1 The referentialist view
    • 2.6.2 The descriptivist view
    • 2.6.3 Kittays’ relational theory of metaphor and Way’s DTH theory of metaphor
  • 2.7 Pragmatic approaches
    • 2.7.1 The standard pragmatic view
      • 2.7.1.1 Searle and Speech Act Theory
      • 2.7.1.2 Grice and the Cooperative Principle
    • 2.7.2 Relevance Theory and figurative language
  • 2.8 The cognitive perspective: The metaphor revolution
    • 2.8.1 Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory
    • 2.8.2 Grady’s theory of primary metaphor
    • 2.8.3 Johnson’s theory of conflation
    • 2.8.4 Blending theory
    • 2.8.5 The neural theory of language
    • 2.8.6 Figurative language, universality, and cultural variation
  • 2.9 Classifications of figures of speech
  • 2.10 Overcoming the limitations: Foundations of an integrated cognitive-pragmatic approach
• Chapter 3. Foundations of cognitive modeling
  • 3.1 Cognitive models
    • 3.1.1 A taxonomy of cognitive models
      • 3.1.1.1 Primary, low, and high levels
      • 3.1.1.2 Non-situational and situational cognitive models: Descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios
      • 3.1.1.3 Non-scalar and scalar cognitive models
    • 3.1.2 Basic and complex models
      • 3.1.2.1 Frame complexes
      • 3.1.2.2 Image-schematic complexes
  • 3.2 Cognitive operations
    • 3.2.1 Cognitive operations affecting linguistic behavior
      • 3.2.1.1 Construal operations
      • 3.2.1.2 Inferential operations
• Chapter 4. Metaphor and metonymy revisited
  • 4.1 Conceptual Metaphor Theory and subsequent developments
  • 4.2 Tracing the boundary line between metaphor and metonymy
  • 4.3 Metaphor and metonymy in terms of cognitive operations
  • 4.4 A typology of metaphor and metonymy
    • 4.4.1 The type of cognitive operation licensing the mapping
    • 4.4.2 The formal complexity of the mapping system
    • 4.4.3 The conceptual complexity of the mapping system
    • 4.4.4 The ontological status of the domains involved in the mapping
    • 4.4.5 The levels of genericity of the domains involved in the mapping
  • 4.5 Metaphoric and metonymic complexes
    • 4.5.1 Correlation with resemblance
    • 4.5.2 Expansion with reduction
    • 4.5.3 Expansion or reduction with resemblance
    • 4.5.4 Correlation with correlation
  • 4.6 Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar
    • 4.6.1 High-level metaphor and metonymy
    • 4.6.2 Metonymy and anaphora
    • 4.6.3 On the metonymic grounding of fictive motion constructions
    • 4.6.4 Metaphor, metonymy, and image-schema transformations
  • 4.7 Metaphor-like figures
    • 4.7.1 Simile
    • 4.7.2 Zoomorphism and anthropomorphism
    • 4.7.3 Analogy, paragon, kenning, and allegory
    • 4.7.4 Synesthesia
  • 4.8 Metonymy-like figures
    • 4.8.1 Hypallage
    • 4.8.2 Antonomasia
    • 4.8.3 Anthimeria
    • 4.8.4 Proverbs
    • 4.8.5 Synecdoche
    • 4.8.6 Merism
  • 4.9 Constraining metaphor and metonymy
• Chapter 5. Hyperbole
  • 5.1 Defining and understanding hyperbole: An outline of descriptive and pragmatic approaches
    • 5.1.1 Hyperbole in rhetoric
    • 5.1.2 Hyperbole in psycholinguistics
    • 5.1.3 Hyperbole in pragmatics
    • 5.1.4 The need for a cognitive account of hyperbole
  • 5.2 The cognitive perspective
    • 5.2.1 Classifying hyperbole: Coding and inferencing
    • 5.2.2 Hyperbole as a cross-domain mapping
    • 5.2.3 Hyperbolic constructions
  • 5.3 Hyperbole-related figurativeness
    • 5.3.1 An account of figures related to hyperbole: Definition and scope
      • 5.3.1.1 Overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis
      • 5.3.1.2 Understatement, meiosis, and litotes
    • 5.3.2 Hyperbole-related figurativeness and cognitive modeling
      • 5.3.2.1 Cognitive modeling in overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis
      • 5.3.2.2 Cognitive modeling in understatement, meiosis, and litotes
  • 5.4 Constraining hyperbole and related figures
• Chapter 6. Irony
  • 6.1 Defining verbal irony: From rhetoric to pragmatics
    • 6.1.1 Traditional approaches
    • 6.1.2 Communicative approaches
  • 6.2 Irony and cognitive modeling
  • 6.3 Towards a synthetic approach to irony
    • 6.3.1 Ironic complexity
    • 6.3.2 Historical uses of irony
  • 6.4 Irony-based figures of speech
    • 6.4.1 Antiphrasis
    • 6.4.2 Sarcasm
    • 6.4.3 Banter
    • 6.4.4 Satire
    • 6.4.5 Prolepsis
  • 6.5 Exploiting cross-domain contrast further: Paradox and oxymoron
  • 6.6 Constraining irony, paradox, and oxymoron
• Chapter 7. Conclusion
• References
• Index