Using Figurative Language

by Herbert L. Colston

Using 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 empirically investigates goals speakers or writers have when speaking (writing) figuratively, and concomitantly, meaning effects wrought by figurative language usage. These 'pragmatic effects' arise from many kinds of figurative language including metaphors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107513480
• ISBN13: 9781107513488
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"