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Using Figurative Language
Herbert L Colston
University of Alberta
Cambridge
UNIVERSITY PRESS
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Why Don’t People Say What They Mean? Wealth and Stealth
Brief Overview
Introduction of Themes
Pragmatic Meaning and Pragmatic Effects
Psychology and Pragmatics
Figurative Language as a Complex Social Phenomenon
Complexity Approaches
Caveats
Pop Goes the Examples
Problems with Problems
Figurative Name Calling
A Final Theme: Rorschach Figures
2 What Is a Pragmatic Effect? Multidisciplinarity and Scope
Pragmatic Effects: A Case Study
Defining a Pragmatic Effect
Speech Act Theory
Gricean Theory
Relevance Theory
Philosophical Accounts
Inferences
Causal Antecedent and Causal Consequent Inferences
Superordinate Goal, Thematic and Additudinal Inferences
Emotion Inferences
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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 too
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 Nonfigurative Language 125
Appropriateness 127
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5 What Is Figurative Language Use? Prevalences, Problems, and
Aptness 128
Indirectness 131
The Future of Common Ground 131
Packaging Figurative Language 133
Pragmatic Effects for Speakers 141
Narrow Time Limits
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 Prevalence(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
182Broader Time Limits
Timing 182
Big Time 182
Shallow and Deep Synchronicity 183
Audience Size 184
Multimodal Timing 185
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
References
Index
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