Politicians and Rhetoric

Politicians and Rhetoric
Author: J. Charteris-Black
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2016-01-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230501702

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This book analyzes the rhetoric of speeches by major British or American politicians and shows how metaphor is used systematically to create political myths of monsters, villains and heroes. Metaphors are shown to interact with other figures of speech to communicate subliminal meanings by drawing on the unconscious emotional association of words.

Figurative Language Comprehension

Figurative Language Comprehension
Author: Herbert L. Colston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-12-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135625816

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Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. These influences include gender, cultural differences, economic status, and inter-group effects, among others. The effects these influences have on people's use, comprehension, and even processing of figurative language, comprise the main theme of this volume. No other book offers such a look at the social and cultural influences on a whole family of figurative forms at several levels of cognition. This volume is of great interest to scholars and professionals in the disciplines of social and cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition, as well as cognitive and other fields of linguistics where scholars have interests in pragmatics, metaphor, symbol, discourse, and narrative. Some knowledge of the empirical and experimental methods used in language research, as well as some familiarity with theories underlying the use, comprehension, and processing of figurative language would be helpful to readers of this book.

Studies in Figurative Thought and Language

Studies in Figurative Thought and Language
Author: Angeliki Athanasiadou
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2017-04-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027265909

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This volume contains original research and innovative analyses that deepen our understanding of figurative thought and language. The selected papers focus on the multi-faceted aspect of figuration, its function in thought, and its impact on areas of grammar and communication. Key topics explored include metaphor, metonymy and their relationship to each other, as well as the less studied figure of hyperbole and its relation to the fundamental figures of metaphor and metonymy. Collectively, the papers examine the pragmatic reasoning processes triggered by figurative thought, the lexicogrammatical motivations and/or constraints on figurative language, the impact of deeply entrenched figurative thought on the lexicon of natural languages, the cultural origins of figurative thought, and the psycholinguistic motivations for figuration. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on figurative thought and language, particularly on questions of universality vs. specificity of figuration, the impact of figuration on constructions, cross-linguistic comparisons of figurative language, and cognitive-pragmatic approaches to figurative meaning.

Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage

Figurative Language – Intersubjectivity and Usage
Author: Augusto Soares da Silva
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2021-05-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027260036

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Intersubjectivity and usage play central roles in figurative language and are pivotal notions for a cognitively realistic research on figures of thought, speech, and communication. This volume brings together thirteen studies that explore the relationship between figurativity, intersubjectivity and usage from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The studies explore the impact of figurativity on areas of lexicon and grammar, on real discourse, and across different semiotic systems. Some studies focus on the psychological processes of the comprehension of figurativity; other studies address the ways in which figures of thought and language are socially shared and the variation of figures through time and space. Moreover, some contributions are established on advanced corpus-based techniques and experimental methods. There are studies about metaphor, metonymy, irony and puns; about related processes, such as humor, empathy and ambiguation; and about the interaction between figures. Overall, this volume offers the advantages and the opportunities of an interactional and usage-based perspective of figurativity, embracing both the psychological and the intersubjective reality of figurative thought and language and empirically emphasizing the multidimensional character of figurativity, its central function in thought, and its impact on everyday communication.

Figurative Thought and Language in Action

Figurative Thought and Language in Action
Author: Mario Brdar
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2022-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027257612

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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 the Human Universe

Figurative Thought and Language in the Human Universe
Author: Mario Brdar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527573923

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The volume focuses on the interaction between figurative language, embodiment, and society and culture from various theoretical and applied perspectives and methodologies. It bears wit-ness to the vibrancy of research into figurative language and the role of embodiment, with conceptualization motivated not just by our physical interaction with the external world, but also by social and cultural phenomena. The topics explored here include the impact of figura-tion on all levels of linguistic analysis, including grammar, discourse, and the relationship be-tween language and emotions.

Decoding Political Discourse

Decoding Political Discourse
Author: Maria-Ionela Neagu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137309903

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This book provides an in-depth look into the cognitive and argumentative nature of political discourse with a focus on the role and place of conceptual metaphors in practical argumentation. Neagu's empirical investigation centres on the corpus of the American Presidential debates in 2008 and speeches by Barack Obama from 2009-2011.

The Conventionality of Figurative Language

The Conventionality of Figurative Language
Author: Sandra Handl
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2011
Genre: Metaphor
ISBN: 3823366246

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universit'at M'unchen, 2008.