1st Edition
Conceptual Conflicts in Metaphors and Figurative Language
By Michele Prandi
Copyright 2017
352 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
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This innovative volume provides a comprehensive integrated account of the study of conceptual figures, demonstrating the ways in which figures and in particular, conflictual figures, encapsulate linguistic expression in the fullest sense and in turn, how insights gleaned from their study can contribute to the wider body of linguistic research. With a specific focus on metaphor and metonymy, the... Read more
Introduction
1. The Figures of the Plane of Expression
2. The Plane of Content: Figures and Conceptual Conflict
3. A Typology of Conflicts: Formal, Conceptual and Textual Conflicts
4. The Figure of Contradiction: Oxymoron
5. Figures of Conceptual Conflict: Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche
6. Metaphor
7. Metaphor and Metonymy Between Conflict and Consistent Thought
8. Figures of Textual Conflict
9. Figures, Meanings and Messages
10. Functions, Instrumentality and Creativity: The Challenge of Figurative Speech to Functional Linguistic Description
Biography
Michele Prandi is Professor of General Linguistics and Head of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Genoa, Italy.
