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Figurative Language and Thought (Hardcover, New)
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Figurative Language and Thought (Hardcover, New)
Series: Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language
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Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative
language is central to several important issues in cognitive
science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we
process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the
past fifteen years, traditional approaches to these issues have
been challenged by experimental psychologists, linguists, and other
cognitive scientists interested in the structures of the mind and
the processes that operate on them. In Figurative Language and
Thought, internationally recognized experts in the field of
figurative language, Albert Katz, Mark Turner, Raymond W. Gibbs
Jr., and Cristina Cacciari, provide a coherent and focused debate
on the subject. The book's authors discuss a variety of fundamental
questions, including: What can figures of speech tell us about the
structure of the conceptual system? If and how should we
distinguish the literal from the nonliteral in our theories of
language and thought? Are we primarily figurative thinkers and
consequently figurative language users or the other way around? Why
do we prefer to speak metaphorically in everyday conversation, when
literal options may be available for use? Is metaphor the only
vehicle through which we can understand abstract concepts? What
role do cultural and social factors play in our comprehension of
figurative language? These and related questions are raised and
argued in an integrative look at the role of nonliteral language in
cognition. This volume, a part of Counterpoints series, will be
thought-provoking reading for a wide range of cognitive
psychologists, linguists, and philosophers.
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