Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language
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Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language

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This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research. With a specific focus on metaphor and metonymy, the book offers a unified and systematic typology of linguistic figures, drawing on a number of different approaches, including both traditional and emerging frameworks within cognitive linguistics as well as syntactic theory, while also providing an exhaustive look at the unique features of a variety of conceptual figures, including metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, and synecdoche. In its aim of reconciling historically opposed theoretical approaches to the study of conflictual figures while also incorporating a thorough account of its distinctive varieties, this volume will be essential reading for researchers and scholars in cognitive linguistics, theoretical linguistics, philosophy of language, and literary studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction: Figures between Valorization and Functions
  8. 1 The Figures of the Plane of Expression
  9. 2 The Plane of Content: Figures and Conceptual Conflict
  10. 3 A Typology of Conflicts: Formal, Conceptual, and Textual Conflicts
  11. 4 The Figure of Contradiction: Oxymoron
  12. 5 Figures of Conceptual Conflict: Metaphor, Metonymy, and Synecdoche
  13. 6 Metaphor
  14. 7 Metaphor and Metonymy between Conflict and Consistent Thought
  15. 8 Figures of Textual Conflict
  16. 9 Figures, Meanings, and Messages
  17. 10 Functions, Instrumentality, and Creativity: The Challenge of Figures to a Functional Linguistic Description
  18. Appendix: Literary Examples
  19. References
  20. Author Index
  21. Subject Index