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Figurative Thought and Language in the Human Universe: Introduction

The topics of the chapters in this volume include the impact of figuration on levels of linguistic analysis (morphology, lexis, semantics, pragmatics), on areas of grammar, on various types of discourse, as well as the relationship between language and emotions, irony, sarcasm, euphemism, etc. The chapters in this volume follow this expansion of embodiment from the literally bodily experience towards interpersonal and to social and cultural superstructures. Thus, the two chapters in Part One focus on figuration in the world of senses and feelings, i.e. embodiment at its most literal and individual and interpersonal. They are followed by five chapters that are concerned with linking figuration to action in the human world in the context of wider social issues, mainly in public discourse (the language of politics and media). Part Three carries two chapters documenting the role of figuration in literary texts. The volume closes with four chapters examining figurative language in cross-linguistic and trans-linguistic perspective, including the study figurative uses of glossonyms.

figurative language ; figurative thought ; metaphor ; metonymy ; embodiment ; cognitive linguistics

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