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Using Figurative Language by Herbert L. Colston
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?' This research... -
Using Figurative Language by Herbert L. Colston 9781107105652
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.57Using Figurative Language presents results from a multidisciplinary decades-long study of figurative language that addresses the question, 'Why don't people just say what they mean?' This research... -
Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences by Herbert L. Colston
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative... -
How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy by Herbert L. Colston
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £94.11Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations,... -
How Language Makes Meaning: Embodiment and Conjoined Antonymy by Herbert L. Colston 9781009246026
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £23.27Language's key function is to enable human social interaction, for which people are motivated to engage by powerful brain mechanisms. This book integrates recent work on embodied simulations,... -
The Diversity of Irony by Angeliki Athanasiadou 9783110777512
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.09Although 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... -
The Diversity of Irony by Angeliki Athanasiadou 9783110648478
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £108.16Although 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... -
Irony in Language and Thought: A Cognitive Science Reader Raymond W. Gibbs Jr 9780805860627
Booksplease Price: £62.16Irony in Language and Thought assembles an interdisciplinary collection of seminal empirical and theoretical papers on irony in language and thought into one comprehensive book. A much-needed... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Irony and Thought by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr 9781108978323
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £43.82The 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... -
Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr 9781107415553
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for their special... -
Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 9781107071148
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £94.41The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for their special... -
Interpreting Figurative Meaning by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 9781107607279
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative... -
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor by Salvatore Attardo
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the...