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Beschreibung
Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?'
Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?'
Über den Autor
Herbert L. Colston is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. Previously, he was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Parkside. Dr Colston has published widely and edited several books including Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences and Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader (with Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, 2007). He co-authored Interpreting Figurative Meaning (Cambridge, 2012) with Raymond Gibbs.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: why don't people say what they mean?; 2. What is a pragmatic effect?; 3. What are the pragmatic effects?; 4. How is figurative language used?; 5. What is figurative language use?; 6. Conclusion: meaning happens.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781107105652
ISBN-10: 110710565X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Colston, Herbert L.
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 157 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Herbert L. Colston
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.11.2015
Gewicht: 0,566 kg
Artikel-ID: 108027008

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