
Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
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- Intro
- Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Art
- Prologue: On the dangers of metaphoring
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A young person's puzzlement
- 3. Trivialization
- 4. Manipulating metaphors
- 5. 'Locker room talk' and tautologies
- 6. Metaphors as mental instruments: Conclusion
- References
- Introduction
- A brief history
- Our goals and gains
- Organization by themes
- New windows into cognition and communication
- Account expansion, flexibility, or integration: Dynamism in action
- Influencers and drivers: Bigger pictures
- Conclusion
- Part I. New windows into cognition and communication
- Metaphor in The Cancer Poetry Project
- 1. Illness, image, metaphor: The Cancer Poetry Project
- 2. Cancer and metaphor
- 3. Metaphor in language, thought and communication about cancer
- 4. Metaphor in cancer poetry, therapy, and communication: The importance of genre
- References
- Narrative experiences of metaphor
- Metaphor processing in narrative contexts
- Dual processes in narrative
- Intuitive judgments in narrative experiences
- Reflective judgments in narrative experiences
- Readers' distinct narrative experiences
- Conclusions
- References
- Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practice
- Introduction
- Solo dance practice, from sound to action
- Internal dynamics of the dancer's translation process
- Duet dance practice: From sound to shared action in interactive dynamic systems
- Mechanisms in interactive sense-making
- Artistic research as a mode of inquiry
- References
- Feeling for speaking: How expressive body movements ground verbal descriptions of emotions
- Introduction
- Study design
- Data
- Methods
- Findings
- Micro-analytic case studies
- Surprise is straightening oneself up
- Pride is a feeling of raised shoulders and an upright posture
- Fear is a lump of lead in the belly and a contracted body
- Happiness is a feeling that wants to get out and up in circles
- Is feeling for speaking a frequent phenomenon?
- Feeling first: A relevant phenomenon?
- Variable forms of embodied grounding
- Summary
- Conclusion: Feeling for speaking - experiencing grounds speaking
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Multimodal body, multimodal mind, multimodal communication
- An illumination
- The foundation of communication is multimodal
- To know a communicative system is to know a relational network of form-meaning pairs and how they blend
- Communication science and multimodal big data
- An infrastructure for research on multimodal communication
- Examples
- Conclusion
- References
- Fictive motion in the wild: Chapter for Dynamism in metaphor and beyond
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is fictive motion?
- 3. How is fictive motion understood?
- 4. Fictive motion in travel language
- 5. Fictive motion in hiking guidebooks
- 6. Closing remarks
- References
- Part II. Account expansion, flexibility, or integration: Dynamism in action
- Extended CMT and the dynamic systems theory of metaphor: A comparison
- Embodied metaphor vs. discourse metaphor
- An informal process model
- The extended view and other theories
- Extended CMT and the dynamic systems view
- Conclusion
- References
- Communication, comprehension, and interpretation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Relevance, cognition and communication
- 3. Comprehension and interpretation
- 4. Indeterminacy in communication
- 5. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Between embodiment and usage: Conventionalized figurative expressions and the notion of 'idiom set'
- 1. Introduction: Embodiment, usage, metaphor
- 2. Multimodality in discourse and constructicon
- 3. The set of expressions licensed by the 'immersion schema'
- 4. Case study: The idiom set licensed by [up to X in Y]
- 4.1 Corpus data and methods applied
- 4.2 Data retrieval and coding
- 4.3 Results of the quantitative analyses of the verbal instantiations
- 4.4 Interim discussion: Corpus data and embodiment
- 4.5 Co-speech gestures: Results and discussion
- 5. Individual variation in the use of the immersion schema
- 6. Metaphoricity and creativity in the use of immersion idioms
- 7. Metaphor between embodiment and usage: Conclusions
- References
- Metaphors and meaning-making in young people's talk about climate change
- Introduction
- Metaphor in science and education
- Metaphor and the discourse of climate change
- Analysing metaphor in discourse
- Data and method
- Analysis
- Greenhouses and high/constant temperatures
- Human beings as plants
- Greenhouses, blankets and layers
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- References
- Experiential viewpoint, simile and dynamicity in discourse
- 1. Types of experience and experiential viewpoint
- 2. Simile and metaphor: Constructional features and discourse
- 3. Discourse dynamicity and figurative form: Simile and other tropes
- 4. Non-figurative narrative elaboration
- 5. Where does this lead?
- References
- Sources of examples
- Metaphor and elaboration in context
- Introduction
- Metaphoric mappings in language & thought
- Metaphor framing in decision-making
- Are metaphors just lexical primes?
- Interim summary
- What schematic elaboration leaves out
- Conclusions
- References
- Part III. Influencers and drivers: Bigger pictures
- Figurativity: Cognitive, because it's social
- Social motivations: Our social addiction
- Social connection
- Social status
- Socially derived sense-of-self
- Language (figurative and other): Our social fix
- Figurative language and pragmatic effects
- Figurative language and social processes
- Language's social foundation
- Figurative language revisited: Affording sociality through cognitive ability consideration
- The forms of figurativity
- Figurative (and other) language, cognition and social functioning
- Conclusion
- References
- Conceptual blending and memes
- 1. Analogical reasoning
- 2. Conceptual blending theory
- 3. Conceptual blending and progressive alignment
- 4. Dueling cartoons
- 5. Memes
- 6. Memes are multimodal constructions
- 7. Something old, something new
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- How to talk about motion without verbs
- Noun dominance in early language
- The salience of motion in early cognition
- Early words for motion other than verbs
- Nouns
- Prepositions and function words
- Early meanings of up and down
- Early meanings of hi and bye
- Other early words for motion
- Conclusions
- References
- Defaultness vs. constructionism: The case of default constructional sarcasm and default non-constructional literalness
- 1. Overview
- 2. Testing the defaultness hypothesis
- 2.1 Defining defaultness
- 2.2 Predictions
- 3. The role of defaultness in affecting processing, pleasure, and pragmatic cueing
- 4. Constructions
- 5. Conclusions: Non/default vs. non/constructional interpretations
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- References
- Appendix A
- Relevance theory perspectives on web-mediated communication
- 1. Introduction
- 2. An ultra-short & informal version of key dimensions of RT
- 3. The co-construction of identity and trust on web platforms
- 4. The TripAdvisor platform as service, communication template, and interface
- TripAdvisor as service for creating an online identity
- Format of the communication template
- Interface from the receiver's perspective
- 5. An RT characterization of communication on TripAdvisor
- 6. From platform to agent: TripAdvisor as communicator
- 7. Concluding remarks
- References
- Language happens
- Introduction
- A solitary language processor is not what processes language
- A solitary brain is not what processes language
- A solitary person is not what processes language
- A community of people is what processes language
- References
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