What is it about?
Book review of María Sandra Peña-Cervel & Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza-Ibáñez, Figuring out Figuration: Figurative Thought and Language (John Benjamins 2022). Journal of Pragmatics. Published ahead of print 11/11/22:
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Why is it important?
Up till now the only figures of speech/tropes that have received systematic attention from Cognitive Linguists are metaphor and metonymy. But if we THINK metaphorically and metonymically, as cognitivists claim, then we surely also think ironically, hyperbolically, paradoxically. The authors of this book make a concerted attempt to show how several other tropes can be theorized along cognitivist lines, as well as how these tropes relate to one another.
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I think this is an important development, not least because this kind of work can serve as a basis to take the next, logical step: to consider how a conceptual approach to tropes can help theorize visual expressions (and manifestations in other modes) of tropes.
Dr Charles Forceville
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Book review, Journal of Pragmatics, December 2022, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.10.005.
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