Understanding Tropes : At the Crossroads between Pragmatics and Cognition

Name: Understanding Tropes
Brand: Peter Lang AG
SKU: 9783631592625
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by Javier Herrero Ruiz

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Format Hardback

Book Series DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture

ISBN-10 3631592620

ISBN-13 9783631592625

Edition New

Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 27th, 2009

Print length 296 Pages

Weight 566 grams

Dimensions 15.40 x 21.60 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Language: history & general works Language: history and general works Linguistics Language learning: speaking skills Speaking / pronunciation skills Literary studies: general

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This book attempts to analyse irony, paradox, oxymoron, overstatement, understatement, euphemism, and dysphemism from the point of view of both Cognitive Linguistics and Pragmatics. In order to do so, we have regarded each trope as a cognitive model, and observed that the various ICMs that resulted from this approach had in common an essential feature: they were all constructed around the creation of contrasts. Also, we have developed a common processing model for these ICMs, which shows that these so-called figures of speech can be fully considered conceptual mechanisms of meaning creation and derivation. Apart from determining which specific pragmatic implications these models bring about and studying their underlying cognitive operations, we have argued that they should be described in terms of the contextual effects they produce. Therefore, a new classification and definition of these tropes is provided.

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