| Description |
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 156 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 156
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| Contents |
Human Creative Cognition and Selective Processing -- The selective mind -- Selective processing -- Selectivity and ad hoc categories -- Human memory and information processing -- The encoding specificity principle -- Memory processes and lexical flexibility -- Concept construction and selective processing -- Selective processing and the instability of graded structure -- Constrains on concept instability -- The depth of processing hypothesis Standard ideas and research -- Beyond the depth of processing hypothesis -- Conclusion -- Relevance Theory: Communication and Cognition -- Basic notions of relevance-theoretical pragmatics -- The cognitive principle of relevance and the definition of relevance -- The communicative principle and the comprehension procedure -- Relevance theory and utterance interpretation -- Accessibility of contextual assumptions -- Lexical pragmatics -- Conclusion -- Metaphor, Interaction and Property Attribution -- Traditional views on metaphor -- A challenge to the literal priority claim -- From property matching to property attribution -- The class-inclusion theory: attribution, interaction and categorisation -- Metaphor and ad hoc categories -- Interaction in intrepretation -- Problems with the class inclusion view -- The emergence problem -- Experimental work on emergence -- Emergence and the class-inclusion theory -- Emergence and blending theory -- The transformation problem -- Conclusion: towards a cognitively-adequate pragmatic approach -- Relevance Theory and Metaphor Interpretation -- Relevance, literalness and metaphor interpretation -- Lexical pragmatics and loose use -- Pragmatic adjustment and metaphor interpretation -- Relevance theory and emergence -- Relevance theory and the transformation problem -- The bulldozer care -- Creative and standardised loose uses -- Inferential routes and pragmatic routines -- Conclusion -- Relevance Theory and Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor -- Relevance theory and standard assumptions on metaphor research -- Relevance theory and the class-inclusion theory -- Experimental evidence -- Conceptual metaphor theory -- Conceptual metaphor theory and relevance theory -- Conclusion -- Analysability in Idiom Comprehension -- Idioms: arbitrariness or compositionality? -- Idioms as (partly) analysable phrases -- Psycholinguistic research on the analysability of idioms -- The role of analysability in idiom use and interpretation -- Comments on experimental research -- The nature of compositionality -- Composition and decomposition -- Analysability as transparency -- Analysability and the processing and representation of idioms -- The activation of idiomatic meaning -- The configuration hypothesis -- Activation and integration in processing -- Conclusion -- Idioms, Transparency and Pragmatic Inference -- Idioms, metaphors and unfamiliar words -- Making sense of idioms -- Synchronic rationale -- The contribution of word meaning -- Conclusions on acquisition -- Familiar idioms: representation and processing -- Activation and interpretation -- Pragmatic adjustment -- Word meaning and idiom meaning -- Interpreting idiom variants -- Some conclusions on idiom processing and idiom variants -- Conclusion -- Creativitiy and Convention Beyond Figurative Speech -- Creativity and convention in language -- The psychology of routines -- Controlled and automatic processing -- Automaticity and expertise -- Stages in expertise development and degrees of automaticity -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book offers a pragmatic account of the interpretation of everyday metaphorical and idiomatic expressions. Using the framework of Relevance Theory, it reanalyses the results of recent experimental research on figurative utterances and provides a novel account of the interplay of creativity and convention in figurative interpretation, showing how features 'emerge' during metaphor comprehension and how literal meaning contributes to idiom comprehension. The central claim is that the mind is rather selective when processing information, and that in the pragmatic interpretation of both literal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-243) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Psycholinguistics.
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Figures of speech.
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Pragmatics.
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Metaphor.
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Idioms.
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Psycholinguistics
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Metaphor
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psycholinguistics.
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pragmatics.
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metaphor.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
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Figures of speech
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Idioms
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Metaphor
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Pragmatics
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Psycholinguistics
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Pragmatiek.
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Stijlfiguren.
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Omgangstaal.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007003850 |
| ISBN |
9789027292131 |
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9027292132 |
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