Using Figurative Language
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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"
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