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* Features/Benefits o Uniquely provides a clear, accessible,
introduction to a range of aspects of theoretical and applied
metaphor studies - metaphor variability, processing, use,
multimodality, and creativity - across languages (including
non-Western languages), communicative settings, and modes of
expression. It thus enables understanding of the main issues,
terminology, and big picture relating to metaphor. o Presents
diverse studies that employ a variety of empirical methods, from
neuroimaging to corpus analysis to behavioral experimentation to
computational modelling. o Offers a rich array of pedagogical
material in every chapter and points to future directions for
metaphor research. * Demand/Audience o Meets the demand for a
comprehensive, introductory work in metaphor, which has had an
explosion of interest and output in the research literature,
conferences, and taught courses. o Students/instructor and
researchers of linguistics, communication, anthropology, cognitive
science, discourse analysis, and more interested in
learning/teaching more about metaphor, figurative language, and
cognitive linguistics will benefit from this synthesis, which will
enable them to read more specifically oriented books in this area
(of which there are many). * Competition o No extant book directly
competes with the proposed book. Other books about metaphor are
highly specialized, narrowly focused monographs on metaphor in
specific domains, and are inaccessible/inappropriate for
student/course or introductory use to the broad subject of
metaphor. This synthetic, zoomed-out book fills that gap by pulling
together a wide range of topics and offering an overview of current
metaphor research.
* Features/Benefits o Uniquely provides a clear, accessible,
introduction to a range of aspects of theoretical and applied
metaphor studies - metaphor variability, processing, use,
multimodality, and creativity - across languages (including
non-Western languages), communicative settings, and modes of
expression. It thus enables understanding of the main issues,
terminology, and big picture relating to metaphor. o Presents
diverse studies that employ a variety of empirical methods, from
neuroimaging to corpus analysis to behavioral experimentation to
computational modelling. o Offers a rich array of pedagogical
material in every chapter and points to future directions for
metaphor research. * Demand/Audience o Meets the demand for a
comprehensive, introductory work in metaphor, which has had an
explosion of interest and output in the research literature,
conferences, and taught courses. o Students/instructor and
researchers of linguistics, communication, anthropology, cognitive
science, discourse analysis, and more interested in
learning/teaching more about metaphor, figurative language, and
cognitive linguistics will benefit from this synthesis, which will
enable them to read more specifically oriented books in this area
(of which there are many). * Competition o No extant book directly
competes with the proposed book. Other books about metaphor are
highly specialized, narrowly focused monographs on metaphor in
specific domains, and are inaccessible/inappropriate for
student/course or introductory use to the broad subject of
metaphor. This synthetic, zoomed-out book fills that gap by pulling
together a wide range of topics and offering an overview of current
metaphor research.
Much of the literature on modality focuses, at least implicitly, on
the occurrence of single modal auxiliaries. However,
cross-linguistically, modal auxiliaries can co-occur with one
another, but under interesting restrictions. This monograph
examines layered modal constructions and the semantic restrictions
under which they combine. The main puzzle addressed in the book is
the question of ordering restrictions among modal auxiliaries and
whether these have any semantic consequences, and finally, what the
conceptual rationale is behind these restrictions. Based on the
data from Croatian, the central proposal is that modal restrictions
depend heavily on both modal force and flavour, and combine
according to a hierarchy that can possibly be extended
cross-linguistically since it rests on the basis of the conceptual
and logical reality of human language. The book also offers an
in-depth overview of the literature on layered modal constructions
as well as a valuable and extensive set of analyzed data which will
be of great interest for researchers interested in verbal systems,
modality, and Slavic languages.
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