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The Literal and Nonliteral in Language and Thought (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The Literal and Nonliteral in Language and Thought (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Lodz Studies in Language, 11
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The distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning can be
traced back to folk models about the relationship between language
and the world. According to these models, sentences can be seen as
building a representation of the world they describe, and
understanding a sentence means knowing how each linguistic element
affects the construction of the representation. Papers in this
volume connect these folk models to the more scientific notions of
the literal/nonliteral distinction proposed by philosophers,
linguists, and cognitive scientists. The current volume examines
the literal/nonliteral distinction from a number of disciplinary
and theoretical perspectives, outlining some of the problematic
assumptions in traditional paradigms and pointing to promising
directions for the study of meaning.
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