Jr. Raymond W. Gibbs, Herbert L. Colston

Interpreting Figurative Meaning

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 787g
• ISBN-13: 9781107024359
• ISBN-10: 1107024358
• Artikelnr.: 35116666

Autorenporträt

Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of several books including The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding and Embodiment and Cognitive Science. He is also editor of the volume The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought and editor of the journal Metaphor and Symbol.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Identifying figurative language
3. Models of figurative language comprehension
4. Interpreting specific figures of speech
5. Indeterminacy of figurative experience
6. Factors shaping figurative language understanding
7. Broadening the scope of figurative language studies.