Producing Figurative Expression

Theoretical, experimental and practical perspectives

Editors

John Barnden | University of Birmingham

Andrew Gargett | Open University

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This collection contains a selection of recent work on people’s production of figurative language (metaphoric, ironic, metonymic, hyperbolic, ...) and similarly of figurative expression in visual media and artefact design. The articles illuminate issues such as why and under what circumstances people produce figurative expression and how it is moulded by their aims. By focusing on production, the intention is to help stimulate more academic research on it and redress historically lower levels of published work on generation than on understanding of figurative expression. The contributions stretch across various academic disciplines—mainly psychology, cognitive linguistics and applied linguistics, but with a representation also of philosophy and artificial intelligence—and across different types of endeavour—theoretical investigation and model building, experimental studies, and applications focussed work (for instance, figurative expression in product design and online support groups). There is also a wide-ranging introductory chapter that touches on areas outside the scope of the contributed articles and discusses difficult issues such as a complex interplay of production and understanding.

[Figurative Thought and Language, 10] 2020. viii, 549 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.10

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. vii–viii

Introduction

John Barnden and Andrew Gargett | pp. 1–34

Section 1. General empirical studies, with main focus on metaphor

Producing metaphor (and other forms of non-literal language) in the laboratory: Structural and pragmatic effects as seen from the perspective of an experimental psycholinguist

Albert N. Katz | pp. 35–54

Metaphor and one-off pictures: Touch and vision

John M. Kennedy | pp. 55–84

Metaphor production and metaphor interpretation

Andreas Musolff | pp. 85–104

On the role of perceptual similarity in producing visual metaphors

Amitash Ojha and Bipin Indurkhya | pp. 105–126

Section 2. General empirical studies – other

On why people don’t say what they mean: Production of figurative formulaic language

Herbert L. Colston | pp. 127–174

How nice does it sound? An argumentative approach to the affective aspects of irony production

Francesca Ervas | pp. 175–210

How defaultness shapes our language production: A usage-based study of discoursal resonance with default interpretations of metaphor and sarcasm

Rachel Giora | pp. 211–236

Producing figurative meanings: The case of idioms

Loes Koring | pp. 237–262

The production of verbal irony: How to be an ironist

Roger J. Kreuz and Alexander A. Johnson | pp. 263–296

Section 3. Empirical and analytical studies aimed at specific applications

Generating metaphors in product design

Nazlı Cila and Paul Hekkert | pp. 297–330

Rock bottoms, juggling balls and coalprints : Exploring the metaphors L2 speakers of English produce in face-to-face interaction

Fiona MacArthur | pp. 331–362

Figurative production in a computer-mediated discussion forum: Metaphors about relationship abuse

Susan Nacey | pp. 363–388

The production of time-related metaphors by people who have experienced pregnancy loss

Sarah Turner, Jeannette Littlemore, Danielle Fuller, Karolina Kuberska and Sheelagh McGuinness | pp. 389–418

Section 4. Other theoretical analysis and cognitive or computational modelling

Metaphor generation through context sensitive distributional semantics

Stephen McGregor, Matthew Purver and Geraint Wiggins | pp. 419–448

Mind the gap: Expressing affect with hyperbole and hyperbolic figures

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt | pp. 449–468

Figurative language: Relations and constraints

Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez | pp. 469–510

Metaphor as sign and as symbol

Tony Veale | pp. 511–532

Topic Index | pp. 533–542

Author Index | pp. 543–550

“To conclude, this volume is a truly necessary resource for anyone interested in figurative language, and in particular, its production. Since the research on figurative expressions has been overwhelmingly focused on its comprehension, rather than on its production, this volume fills a substantial gap in the literature by uniting interdisciplinary approaches which use a wide variety of methods and suggest possible methodological obstacles in metaphor production studies. There is no doubt that this book will directly inspire impactful future research on metaphor production.”

Ana Werkmann Horvat, University of Osijek, Journal of Pragmatics 184 (2021)

“The edited volume “Producing Figurative Expression” presents research into the production of metaphor, irony, hyperbole, and other forms of figurative expressions across discourse domains, disciplines, and potentially also cultures. With this, the book sets the agenda for new lines of investigation in the study of figurative expression production.”

Britta C. Brugman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, in Metaphor and the Social World 12:2 (2022).

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