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The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 945 pages

File Size : 30,3 MB

Release : 2023-12-07

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1108968678

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The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought offers the first comprehensive collection of chapters in multidisciplinary irony scholarship. These chapters explore the significance of irony, both verbal and situational, in language, thought, human action, and artistic expression. They cover five main themes: the scope of irony in human experience; irony's impact (both personal and in social life); irony in linguistic communication; irony and affect, and irony in expressive contexts. Contributions come from a wide range of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, computer science, film and media studies, and music, making this a truly cross-disciplinary collection of benefit to a wide range of students and researchers.



The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought

Author : Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 550 pages

File Size : 29,52 MB

Release : 2008-09-22

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 113947166X

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A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.



The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics

Author : Keith Allan

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 967 pages

File Size : 47,43 MB

Release : 2012-01-12

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1139501895

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Pragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.



The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 831 pages

File Size : 33,63 MB

Release : 2021-12-02

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1108656226

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The philosophy of language is central to the concerns of those working across semantics, pragmatics and cognition, as well as the philosophy of mind and ideas. Bringing together an international team of leading scholars, this handbook provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics. Chapters are grouped into thematic areas and cover a wide range of topics, from key philosophical notions, such as meaning, truth, reference, names and propositions, to characteristics of the most recent research in the field, including logicality of language, vagueness in natural language, value judgments, slurs, deception, proximization in discourse, argumentation theory and linguistic relativity. It also includes chapters that explore selected linguistic theories and their philosophical implications, providing a much-needed interdisciplinary perspective. Showcasing the cutting-edge in research in the field, this book is essential reading for philosophers interested in language and linguistics, and linguists interested in philosophical analyses.



Irony

Author : Joana Garmendia

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 179 pages

File Size : 33,83 MB

Release : 2018-03-22

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1107092639

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Book Description

An accessible introduction to the pragmatics of irony that presents the main theoretical approaches and central discussions of the analysis of ironic communication.



The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

Author : Michael Spivey

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 767 pages

File Size : 29,92 MB

Release : 2012-08-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0521677920

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Book Description

This comprehensive collection of chapters is written by leading researchers in psycholinguistics from a wide array of subfields.



Metaphor and Thought

Author : Andrew Ortony

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 700 pages

File Size : 26,92 MB

Release : 1993-11-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521405614

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Book Description

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical issues, the volume also includes six new chapters that present important and influential fresh ideas about metaphor that have appeared in such fields as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, linguistics, cognitive and clinical psychology, education and artificial intelligence.



The Diversity of Irony

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Page : 315 pages

File Size : 22,77 MB

Release : 2020-02-24

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 3110652242

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Book Description

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole. The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony’s diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.



The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Author : Rajend Mesthrie

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 598 pages

File Size : 30,58 MB

Release : 2011-10-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1139500937

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Book Description

The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.



Irony in Language Use and Communication

Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 22,76 MB

Release : 2017-12-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027264821

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Book Description

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies, philosophy, cognitive linguistics, the connection and impact of irony on culture and (media) communication, different approaches to verbal irony and others—ultimately attempting to model the mechanisms underlying ironic forms and the psycholinguistic motivations for their investigation. The comprehensive treatment of these issues is fundamental for future research on irony and related phenomena, particularly on questions of its usage, the diversity and/or unity of irony and ultimately the interrelationships between figurative thought and language.