1st Edition
Idioms Processing, Structure, and Interpretation
356 Pages
by
Psychology Press
360 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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"The book draws on a lot of research, is friendly to the reader, and will be of good value to teachers."
Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia
This comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching approaches the topic with a balance of sound theory and extensive research in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics,... Read more
Contents: P.N. Johnson-Laird, Foreword. Preface. Part I:Idiom Interpretation and the Literal Figurative Distinction. S. Glucksberg, Idiom Meanings and Allusional Content. C. Cacciari, The Place of Idioms in a Literal and Metaphorical World. R.W. Gibbs, Why Idioms Are Not Dead Metaphors. G.B. Flores d'Arcais, The Comprehension and Semantic Interpretation of Idioms. Part II:Acquisition and Processing of Idioms. M.C. Levorato, The Acquisition of Idioms and the Development of Figurative Competence. T. Botelho da Silva, A. Cutler, Ill-Formedness and Transformability in Portuguese Idioms. P. Tabossi, F. Zardon, The Activation of Idiomatic Meaning in Spoken Language Comprehension. L. Colombo, The Comprehension of Ambiguous Idioms in Context. R.R. Peterson, C. Burgess, Syntactic and Semantic Processing During Idiom Comprehension: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Dissociations. Part III:Meaning and Structure. O. Stock, J. Slack, A. Ortony, Building Castles in the Air: Some Computational and Theoretical Issues in Idiom Comprehension. S.G. Pulman, The Recognition and Interpretation of Idioms. C. Fellbaum, The Determiner in English Idioms. A. Makkai, Idiomaticity as a Reaction to L'Arbitraire du Signe in the Universal Process of Semeio-Genesis.
Biography
Cristina Cacciari, Patrizia Tabossi
"...does an excellent job of presenting the state of the art in the study of idioms. Its strength is in raising important issues, which is precisely what one would want from a book that should serve to motivate the future investigation of idioms."
—American Journal of Psychology
