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F i g Figurative Meaning u r a t Construction i v e T in Thought h o u g and Language h t a n d L a n edited by g u Annalisa Baicchi a g e 9 John Benjamins Publishing Company Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language Figurative Thought and Language (FTL) issn 2405-6944 The aim of the series is to publish theoretical and empirical research on Figuration broadly construed. Contributions to the study of metaphor, metonymy, irony, hyperbole, understate- ment, idioms, proverbs and other understudied figures as well as figurative blends will be considered. Works on figuration in gesture and multi-modal expression, embodiment and figuration, pragmatic effects of figurativity and other topics relevant to the production, use, processing, comprehension, scope, underpinnings and theoretical accounts involving figura- tion, will also be considered. Volumes in the series may be collective works, monographs and reference books, in the English language. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see benjamins.com/catalog/ftl Editors Angeliki Athanasiadou Herbert L. Colston Aristotle University University of Alberta Editorial Board Salvatore Attardo Sam Glucksberg Günter Radden Texas A&M University, Commerce Princeton University University of Hamburg John A. Barnden Albert Katz Francisco José Ruiz University of Birmingham Western University, Canada de Mendoza Ibáñez Benjamin K. Bergen Sandrine Le Sourn-Bissaoui University of La Rioja University of California, San Diego Université Rennes 2 Maria Sifianou Daniel Casasanto Jeannette Littlemore National and Kapodistrian University of Chicago University of Birmingham University of Athens Eva Filippova Marilyn A. Nippold Gerard J. Steen Charles University Prague University of Oregon University of Amsterdam Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Klaus-Uwe Panther Linda L. Thornburg University of California, Santa Cruz University of Hamburg Nanjing Normal University Rachel Giora Penny M. Pexman Tel Aviv University University of Calgary Volume 9 Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language Edited by Annalisa Baicchi Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language Edited by Annalisa Baicchi University of Genoa John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. doi 10.1075/ftl.9 Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from Library of Congress: lccn 2020013898 (print) / 2020013899 (e-book) isbn 978 90 272 0705 0 (Hb) isbn 978 90 272 6102 1 (e-book) © 2020 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Company · https://benjamins.com Table of contents Foreword and acknowledgements vii Figurativeness all the way down: By way of introduction 1 Annalisa Baicchi Part I. Figurativeness and theory: Addition, identification and structure Metaphor thoughtfully 13 John Barnden Separating (non-)figurative weeds from wheat 45 Mario Brdar, Rita Brdar-Szabó and Benedikt Perak A multi-level view of metaphor and some of its advantages 71 Zoltán Kövecses Part II. Figurativeness and constructions Intensification via figurative language 91 Angeliki Athanasiadou Falling to one’s death in multiple landscapes: From blending to typology 107 Cristiano Broccias Metaphorical adjective-noun phrases in German journalese 129 Sabine De Knop Metonymy meets coercion: The case of the intensification of nouns in attributive and predicative constructions in Spanish 151 Francisco Gonzálvez-García Part III. Figurativeness, pragmaticity and multimodality Sources of pragmatic effects in irony and hyperbole 187 Herbert L. Colston and Ann Carreno Metaphorical interplay of words and gestures in the Catholic liturgy 209 Marcin Kuczok vi Figurative Meaning Construction in Thought and Language Part IV. Typology of figures and cognitive models Figures of speech revisited: Introducing syntonymy and syntaphor 225 Bogusław Bierwiaczonek Cutting and breaking metaphors of the self and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model 253 Simon Devylder and Jordan Zlatev The metonymic exploitation of descriptive, attitudinal, and regulatory scenarios in meaning making 283 Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Alicia Galera Masegosa Index 309 Foreword and acknowledgements This volume brings together a selection of cutting-edge research studies that were delivered at the 2nd International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (November 2015), including five of the plenary talks and seven selected papers from the symposium. The authors, coming from ten different countries, are rep- resentative of many angles of Cognitive Linguistics. I am confident that the twelve chapters in this volume will foster scholarly debate in the issues raised and offer further impetus for future research on this area. I hope the volume will attract the interest of linguists, whatever their scientific persuasion, in the interplay between language and thought. My warmest thanks go to the authors for their enthusiasm and high-quality chapters. I gratefully acknowledge the constant support and fruitful advice of the editors-in chief of the series Figurative Thought and Language, Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert Colston: Their wisdom and experience have been a great asset to me. Special thanks go to Günter Radden for his generous help during some steps of the editing process. My warm thanks go to Esther Roth and the publishing house John Benjamins for their efficient collaboration throughout the whole process. Annalisa Baicchi Genoa, April 2019 Figurativeness all the way down By way of introduction Annalisa Baicchi University of Genoa This volume showcases twelve chapters that profile current research on figurative- ness as is explored from the Cognitive Linguistics perspective. Figurativeness is not merely a device for the embellishment of communication as was seen until a few decades ago, but it is, first and foremost, the pivot around which our thinking ability revolves. The opportunity is seized in this introduction to briefly take stock of how meaning is constructed in the mind of the language users, and to delineate how figurative language is the outcome of semantic information grounded in the action-perception system of the human brain, and embodied in our mind through the sensori-motor system that guides our interaction with the world. Over the mid- and last-twentieth century two opposite approaches on the na- ture of meaning have permeated the scientific debate. They have brought to the fore the question whether meaning is ‘outside the self’ waiting for a mind to grasp it and store it independent of human experience (Objectivist Realism), or it is the outcome of the language user’s experience (Embodied Realism). The Objectivist Realism postulates the existence of a mind-independent reality and grounds its tenets on principles of subject-object separation. According to this school of thought, which has imbued the dominant philosophical and linguis- tic research from Aristotle to Chomsky, the world consists of entities that belong to objectively defined categories, where categories share logical relations that are unrelated with the human mind. Existence is separate from any aspect of human cognition, like perception, understanding, knowledge, or belief. The mind is a com- putational device that collects the data from human experience, dissects them me- chanically, and stores them taxonomically in terms of primary semantic units. Thus, meaning is ‘outside the self’ and the mind is a mere storage of human experience. Entities and categories of reality are expressed in thought and language through symbols whose meaning is represented by conventional correspondences. From this premise follows that language is an autonomous faculty distinct from any other type of knowledge, and it is the instrument to represent objective reality in symbolic https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.9.int © 2020 John Benjamins Publishing Company
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