"The contents of the volume prove the vitality of cognitive linguistic studies of figuration when combined with new research methodologies, in tandem with other disciplines, and also when applied to an ever broader range of topics. Individual chapters are concerned not only with some fundamental issues of defining and delimiting metaphor and metonymy, with the impact of figuration on grammatical forms, but are also exemplary discussions of how figurative language is processed and understood, as well as studies of practical ramifications of the use of figurative language in various types of discourse (the language of media, politics and healthcare communication). Most of the volume assumes a synchronic perspective, but diachronic coverage of processes is not missing either. In short, the volume demonstrates how rewarding it is to return to the true origins of cognitive linguistics for new inspiration and take a fresh start promising a true cornucopia of future results"--.

• Figurative Thought and Language in Action
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Figurative thought and language research in the 21st century: Back to the future
  • References
• Part 1. Modeling figurative thought and language
• Important challenges in the study of metaphors
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Identifying metaphors: The view from nowhere?
  • 3. What meanings do people understand when they understand metaphor?
  • 4. Online, incremental metaphor processing
  • 5. The metaphorical essence of source domains
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
• A Cognitive Grammar approach to ‘metonymy’
  • 1. The cognitive approach to metonymy
  • 2. The tropical approach to metonymy
    • 2.1 Index metonymy
    • 2.2 Amplification metonymy
    • 2.3 Metonymic association
    • 2.4 Interim summary
  • 3. A Cognitive Grammar approach to metonymy
    • 3.1 The reference-point ability
    • 3.2 ‘Straightforward’ metonymy in CG
    • 3.3 Active zones and part-whole relations
    • 3.4 Facets
  • 4. Less ‘straightforward’ examples of metonymy in CG
    • 4.1 Amplification metonymy
    • 4.2 Noun-to-verb conversion
    • 4.3 Metonymic association
    • 4.4 Sound metonymies?
  • 5. Conclusions
  • References
• Targetting metonymic targets
  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1 Background: Approaching metonymy
    • 1.2 The aims and the organization of the chapter
  • 2. Exit metonymic mappings
  • 3. Enter metonymic source elaboration producing metonymic targets in mental spaces
  • 4. Some advantages of our view on the nature of metonymy
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Part 2. The impact of figurative thought on linguistic structures
• The effect of figurative thought on basic level categorization: How categories come to be formed and named
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The role of figuration and perception in the formation of basic level categories in language
  • 3. The conceptualization of basic level categories and the influence of figuration
    • 3.1 Levels of categorization, the scope of categories, and the effect of figurative thought
    • 3.2 Figuration in the conceptualization and lexicalization of categories
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Reconsidering accounts of the grammaticalization of auxiliaries: The cases of be-going-to and have-perfect
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Elements of the wider conceptual background of grammaticalization processes
    • 2.1 The “lexical preface” to grammaticalization stories: The example of be-going-to
    • 2.2 Associated notions and their collocational patterns: The example of the have-perfect
    • 2.3 Interaction with the development of other items in the respective domains
  • 3. Summary and conclusions
  • Note
  • References
• Physical and communicative force in Caused-Motion constructions: What they entail and what they implicate
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Folk models of action, force and types of inference
    • 2.1 The folk model of talk and action
    • 2.2 Force dynamics
  • 3. Physical actions vs. communicative actions in three constructions
  • 4. Physical actions vs. communicative actions in TCM constructions
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 Hypotheses
    • 4.3 actuality entailments vs. defeasible actuality implicatures
    • 4.4 Contextually confirmed and reinforced actuality implicatures
    • 4.5 Borderline cases: When implicature turns into quasi-entailment of actuality
    • 4.6 Metaphor: physical action as communicative action
    • 4.7 Manner and iconicity: How they influence the strength of implications
  • 5. Conclusion and outlook
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
• Part 3. Processing of figurative language: Two case studies on irony
• Embodied simulations and verbal irony comprehension
  • 1. Representation and activation
  • 2. Embodied simulations
  • 3. Evidence
  • 4. Embodied simulations and verbal irony
  • 5. Verbal irony? Being sarcastic with joysticks
    • 5.1 Non-figurative language
    • 5.2 Verbal irony
  • 6. Discussion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Funding
  • References
• Verbal and situational irony: On the conceptual mechanisms underlying two patterns of irony
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual integration as a mechanism of interpreting and processing irony
  • 3. Verbal and situational irony
    • 3.1 Verbal irony
    • 3.2 Situational irony
  • 4. Conclusion
  • References
• Part 4. Figurative thought and language in use
• Metonymies of migration: Media discourse about and by migrants
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework
    • 2.1 Migrants and metonymy
    • 2.2 Critical discourse studies + metonymy/metaphor analysis
    • 2.3 Figurative language and migration discourse
  • 3. Method
  • 4. Findings
    • 4.1 Journeys, roads, and setbacks
    • 4.2 Floods, oceans, and ponds
    • 4.3 Invasions and machine guns
    • 4.4 Predators and prey
    • 4.5 Do migrants know what they are called?
    • 4.6 Resisting the categories
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Draining the swamp: Creative figurative language in political discourse
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conceptual blending theory
  • 3. Methodology
  • 4. Draining the swamp
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
• Being in the same boat, in two ways: Conflict metaphors in health care
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Conflicts and metaphors
  • 3. Data and method
  • 4. Conflict metaphors
    • 4.1 conflict is a container, conflict is motion
    • 4.2 conflict is an object
    • 4.3 conflict is a process/event
    • 4.4 Conflict metaphors – negative framing
    • 4.5 Conflict, power, metaphors
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Index