Understanding figurative language : from metaphors to idioms

By S. Glucksberg. 2001

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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A Psychoanalytic Discursive Psychology: from consciousness to unconsciousness (2006, background): “When this occurs, the speakers and auditors cease to attend to the original metaphorical meaning, using the idiomatic phrase in a literal way (Glucksberg, 2001; Billig and Macmillan, 2005).”
Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation (2017, methodology): “Inappropriate ones (like cadaver) are ruled out, based on the theory of category-inclusion of Glucksberg (2001). This list of potential similes is then used to create Google queries, inspired by the work of Hearst (1992), of the form n-like t (e.g., stick insect-like Paris Hilton, which actually occ”
Parallels and differences in the treatment of metaphor in relevance theory and cognitive linguistics (2011, background): “However, the fact that there is both experimental and introspective evidence against the Gricean account when construed as a model of utterance comprehension (e.g. Gibbs 1994; Glucksberg 2001; Wilson and Sperber 2002) justifies the search for an alternative analysis of (8).”
Hyperbolic language and its relation to metaphor and irony (2015, background): “…used words are cases of dual reference, so, for instance, in the utterance ‘My job is a jail’, the word ‘jail’ denotes both its literal referent and a superordinate category of confining, constraining entities of which the literal referent is a prototypical instance (Glucksberg 2001).”
The Metaphorical Representation of Affect (2005, background): “Although Lakoff and Johnson’s (1999) ideas are controversial (e.g., Murphy, 1997), other psycholinguists do seem to agree that physical metaphors are at least useful in the representation of abstract concepts (e.g., Glucksberg, 2001).”
Metaphor is grounded in embodied experience (2004, background): “Many scholars work on aspects of metaphorical language, such as traditional ‘A is B’ or resemblance metaphors, that may be explained apart from embodiment per se (cf. Glucksberg, 2001).”
Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2011, background): “, Glucksberg, S., & Horton, W. (2000). Conventional language: How metaphoric is it? Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 576–593.”