Using figurative language:
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New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 266 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781107105652 |
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| adam_text | “Using Figurative Language is a fundamentally important contribution to
the figurative language literature. It contains numerous original insights
that empiricists will be able to mine for their studies for years to come.
Colston convincingly argues that pragmatic effects and issues of common
ground are at the heart of understanding this form of language. This is a
book that trulv advances the state of the art.”
Roger Kreuz, University of Memphis
“The explosion of research on figurative language over the past 35 years
has surprisingly paid little attention to the social purposes of figurative
language beyond what individual tropes may typically mean. Herb
Colston’s new book Using Figurative Language describes how figurative
language is fundamentally a complex social phenomenon. He insists
that theories of figurative language meaning and use must attend to the
broader contexts in which tropes appear and the pragmatic effects that
people convey when using different figures of speech. The book contains a
wealth of wonderful linguistic examples, empirical findings, and insightful
analyses that are likelv to change how we think about the functions of
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figurative language in discourse.”
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments page xiii
Preface xv
1 Why Don t People Say What They Mean? Wealth and Stealth 1
Brief Overview 4
Introduction of Themes 4
Pragmatic Meaning and Pragmatic Effects 5
Psychology and Pragmatics 6
Figurative Language as a Complex Social Phenomenon 7
Complexity Approaches 7
Caveats 7
Pop Goes the Examples 8
Problems with Problems 9
Figurative Name Calling 9
A Final Theme: Rorschach Figures 10
2 What Is a Pragmatic Effect? Multidisciplinarity and Scope 14
Pragmatic Effects: A Case Study 16
Defining a Pragmatic Effect 22
Speech Act Theory 22
Gricean Theory 24
Relevance Theory 27
Philosophical Accounts 30
Inferences 31
Causal Antecedent and Causal Consequent Inferences 33
Superordinate Goal, Thematic and Additudinal Inferences 36
Emotion Inferences 38
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viii Contents
Instantiation of Noun Category and Instrumental Inferences 39
Subordinate Goal/Action Inferences 39
How Are Pragmatic Effects Unlike Implicatures, Positive
Cognitive Effects, Interpretive Hypotheses, or Inferences? 40
Structural Effects 41
Embodied Effects 43
Psychological Effects 47
Sociocultural Effects 48
Social Knowledge about Speakers/Hearers 49
Shared Knowledge among Interlocutors 49
Familiarity in Interlocutors 50
Enablement of Social Information: Social Structure,
Language, and Culture 50
Egocentrism in Speakers 51
Social Information Interacting with Language Processing 51
3 What Are the Pragmatic Effects? Issues in Categorizing
Pragmatic Effects 53
Anomalous Figures 53
Categories and Contents 63
Pragmatic Effects and Decontextualization 65
Delineating Pragmatic Effects 66
General Pragmatic Effects 66
Ingratiation 67
Mastery 67
Persuasion 68
Social Engineering 70
Catalyzation 70
Efficiency 70
Pragmatic Effects Specific to Single Figures or Figure Families 71
Expressing Negativity 71
Enhancing Meaning 73
Highlighting Discrepancies 73
Objectification 74
Identification 75
Humor 75
Emotion Expression/Elicitation 76
Exfoliation 77
Politeness 77
Contents
ix
Impoliteness 78
Tension Reduction 81
Machiavellianism 81
Anomalous Pragmatic Effects 82
Causes of Pragmatic Effects 85
Linguistic Causes 87
Structural Causes 88
Juxtaposition Causes 89
Metapragmatic Causes 90
Social Causes 90
Psychological Causes 91
Associative Causes 96
Idiosyncratic Causes 97
Stylistic/Register Causes 97
Embodied Causes 97
Time Course of Pragmatic Effects 98
Midpoint Conclusions 98
4 How Is Figurative Language Used? Three
Kinds of Answers 100
Common Ground in Figurative Language Use 101
A Brief Summary of the Debate 103
Figurative Language and Common Ground 105
Metaphor 105
Verbal Irony 108
Hyperbole 111
Contextual Expressions 112
Idioms 113
Indirect Requests 114
Common Ground in Discourse Patterns 115
A New “New Look at Common Ground” 118
Memory 119
Availability 121
Automaticity 121
Individual Differences 123
Style 124
Common Ground and Use 124
Common Ground in Figurative versus Noniigurative Language 125
Appropriateness 127
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Aptness 128
Indirectness 131
The Future of Common Ground 131
Packaging Figurative Language 133
Pragmatic Effects for Speakers 141
5 What Is Figurative Language Use? Prevalences, Problems, and
Promise 144
Corpus and Observational Work 147
Figurative Language Prevalence(s) 149
Fixed Forms 150
Metaphor and Pragglejaz 150
Verbal Irony and Hyperbole 151
Pragmatic Effect Pre^alence(s) 152
Multimodal Indicators 153
Linguistic Indicators 154
Control Comparisons 155
Formula Derivation 156
Compilation and New Studies 157
Mediators 158
Is Figurative Language Used Up? 160
A Figurative Collage 160
Fads and Fades 164
Fixedness and Decompositionality 165
Profanity 168
Creativity 168
New Figures 172
Figurative Use beyond Language 178
Limits of Pragmatic Effects 180
Time 180
Narrow Time Limits 180
Broader Time Limits 182
Timing 182
Big Time 182
Shallow and Deep Synchronicity 183
Audience Size 184
Multimodal Timing 18$
Structure: Hyperbole and Persuasion 185
The Peak Problem 188
Contents xi
6 Conclusion: Meaning Happens, by Hook or by Crook 191
What Is Entailed by a Search for Meaning? 193
Psychology and Pragmatics 194
Psycholinguistic Meaning 195
Linguistic Pragmatic Meaning 197
Cognitive Psychological Meaning 200
Figurative Language as a Complex Social Phenomenon 204
Social Groups 206
Sociocognitive Mechanisms 208
Neural and Behavioral Evidence 209
Rorschach Figures 217
A Pragmatic Effect Organization 220
Pragmatic Effects and Intentionality 222
Complexity Approaches 224
Modeling 224
Metatheorizing 225
Conclusion 226
Notes 231
References 239
Index 263
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