Producing figurative expression : theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives / edited by John Barnden, University of Birmingham ; Andrew Gargett, Open University.

"This collection contains a selection of recent work on people's production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumsta...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Barnden, John (Editor), Gargett, Andrew D. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:	Figurative thought and language ; v. 10.
Subjects:	Figures of speech. Metaphor. Cognitive grammar. metaphor. Cognitive grammar Figures of speech Metaphor
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Intro
Producing Figurative Expression
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Motivation for the volume
2. The chapters
2.1 Section 1: General empirical studies, with main focus on metaphor
2.2 Section 2: General empirical studies
other
2.3 Section 3: Empirical and analytical studies aimed at specific applications
2.4 Section 4: Other theoretical analysis and cognitive or computational modelling
3. Figurative production in areas not covered by this volume
3.1 Other areas of psychology
3.2 Psychotherapy
3.3 Neurophysiology
3.4 Metaphor usage across languages
3.5 Metaphor and translation
3.6 Across modalities
3.7 Other
4. Final remarks: Demarcation of production and understanding
References
section 1. General empirical studies, with main focuson metaphor
Producing metaphor (and other forms of non-literal language) in the laboratory
1. Introduction
2. Inducing the production of nonliteral language in interactive Icommunication
2.1 The online discussion task
2.2 The passage completion task
3. What is the ecology that invites metaphor or sarcasm production?
3.1 The discourse context generation task
4. Production techniques to study the underlying mechanisms of metaphor
4.1 The vehicle production task
4.2 The life event generation task
5. Concluding comments
References
Metaphor and one-off pictures
1. Introduction
2. Cars in motion represented by a blind girl
3. Wheel metaphors by EA
4. Five wheels, five metaphors
5. Disclaimers tag metaphors
6. EW's ontologies
7. Thoughts
8. Atmospheres and impressions
9. Good and bad
10. Aida and esthetics
11. Surfaces, expression and intellect
12. Metaphors, images and perception
13. Conclusion
References
Metaphor production and metaphor interpretation
1. Introduction
2. Creative recycling of a metaphorical slogan: Britain at the heart of Europe
3. Productive interpretation: New metaphor variants in questionnaire responses
3.1 nation-as-body interpretations
3.2 nation-as-person interpretations
3.3 Discussion: Distribution patterns and their motivation
4. Conclusions
References
On the role of perceptual similarity in producing visual metaphors
1. Introduction
2. Part 1: Visual metaphors and perceptual similarity
2.1 Introducing visual metaphors
2.2 Production of visual metaphors
2.3 Introducing perceptual similarity
2.4 Perceptual similarity in visual metaphors
2.4.1 Perceptual similarity in juxtaposed visual metaphors
2.4.2 Perceptual similarity in homospatial visual metaphors
2.5 Visual metaphors vs. verbal metaphors
3. Part 2: Two empirical studies on the role of perceptual similarity
3.1 Study 1: Judgement of perceptual similarity
3.1.1 Procedure and task
3.1.2 Results
3.1.3 Discussion

Producing figurative expression : theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives / edited by John Barnden, University of Birmingham ; Andrew Gargett, Open University.

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