Producing Figurative Expression

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...

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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.

“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)

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
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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
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